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In the technical interview, I was asked to live code two programs-one involving strings and the other related to dictionaries. Additionally, I tackled puzzles and answered questions related to object-oriented programming.
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Engineer - Product Development

Interviewed at Envestnet

4.2
Aug 26, 2023

In the technical interview, I was asked to live code two programs-one involving strings and the other related to dictionaries. Additionally, I tackled puzzles and answered questions related to object-oriented programming.

Consider a service distributed over many servers connected to a single database. For each request received to a server, it will have to make a call to the main database. If we cache popular queries on the server, we would reduce the overhead. Now, in this situation, they asked me several challenges that would be faced and how to solve them. Eg. how to make sure the caches are in sync, how to prevent a malicious user from hogging the database, etc.
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Product Engineer

Interviewed at Sprinklr

3.5
Dec 12, 2015

Consider a service distributed over many servers connected to a single database. For each request received to a server, it will have to make a call to the main database. If we cache popular queries on the server, we would reduce the overhead. Now, in this situation, they asked me several challenges that would be faced and how to solve them. Eg. how to make sure the caches are in sync, how to prevent a malicious user from hogging the database, etc.

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