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- tree operations (data structures) - system design for authentication service (whiteboard) - system design for scooter lending company (whiteboard) - low-level design for elevator problem (whiteboard) You shouldn't have a problem if you prepare from well known sites like geeksforgeeks. The problems you get may be different but it's important to take the right approach.
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Senior Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Oracle

3.5★
Mar 28, 2026

- tree operations (data structures) - system design for authentication service (whiteboard) - system design for scooter lending company (whiteboard) - low-level design for elevator problem (whiteboard) You shouldn't have a problem if you prepare from well known sites like geeksforgeeks. The problems you get may be different but it's important to take the right approach.

This program is for reverse the word present in the given string input: my name is xx khan output:ym eman si xx nahk Interviewer was not technically strong and when I was trying to run the program in online compiler got few errors and when I tried to solve many times I felt he doesnt know that we can use string instead of char array.. Many more doubts he had. Questions on OOPs concepts SAS, SATA, nvme Past products Design pattern
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Dell Technologies

3.7★
Feb 5, 2021

This program is for reverse the word present in the given string input: my name is xx khan output:ym eman si xx nahk Interviewer was not technically strong and when I was trying to run the program in online compiler got few errors and when I tried to solve many times I felt he doesnt know that we can use string instead of char array.. Many more doubts he had. Questions on OOPs concepts SAS, SATA, nvme Past products Design pattern

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