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How does a garbage collection system work? How will you prevent an object from being garbage collected? Write N-ary tree traversal code to search a node given a String key. How many JVM instances does a tomcat server have? How would it handle multiple applications with different versions of same api (for instance log4j)? Explain wait and notify. Explain Generics. What is the difference between a static class and a singleton class? Why do you want to work for Netflix?
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Senior Software Engineer, Architect

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1
Nov 11, 2011

How does a garbage collection system work? How will you prevent an object from being garbage collected? Write N-ary tree traversal code to search a node given a String key. How many JVM instances does a tomcat server have? How would it handle multiple applications with different versions of same api (for instance log4j)? Explain wait and notify. Explain Generics. What is the difference between a static class and a singleton class? Why do you want to work for Netflix?

write a recursive function that solves the equation X[n] = X[n-1] + X[n-2] where X is an array that contains at least two integer values and the function should solve the question for the 3rd value in the array
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Senior Software Engineer (Android)

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1
Feb 14, 2014

write a recursive function that solves the equation X[n] = X[n-1] + X[n-2] where X is an array that contains at least two integer values and the function should solve the question for the 3rd value in the array

You're working on a video editor and need to show events (identified by start and end timestamps) in swimlane tracks. A single track cannot contain events that overlap. Implement an algorithm that receives an array of events and outputs list of tracks (arrays) containing the list of events that should be shown on that track.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1
Dec 31, 2019

You're working on a video editor and need to show events (identified by start and end timestamps) in swimlane tracks. A single track cannot contain events that overlap. Implement an algorithm that receives an array of events and outputs list of tracks (arrays) containing the list of events that should be shown on that track.

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