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Confidential, I’d like to keep it this way as the company is a start up and I don’t wanna give out more information. All I can say is, in round 2 with the founders They are guaging your skills and assessing if you are a fit. Probably looking for someone who would yes their decisions. I questioned their choice of tech during this which I think might have triggered intuition. Overall a positive interview in terms of questions asked and answers. But not so in terms of them coming back after it.
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Paylater Travel

5★
Dec 10, 2023

Confidential, I’d like to keep it this way as the company is a start up and I don’t wanna give out more information. All I can say is, in round 2 with the founders They are guaging your skills and assessing if you are a fit. Probably looking for someone who would yes their decisions. I questioned their choice of tech during this which I think might have triggered intuition. Overall a positive interview in terms of questions asked and answers. But not so in terms of them coming back after it.

- Implement a DAG using Java from scratch - Questions about API and integration - The most frequently asked question though was the following What are you going to do, if you are into a situation where our existing development teams resist change and dont want to modernise or move forward. How you would handle this situation.
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Nutmeg

3.6★
Nov 9, 2020

- Implement a DAG using Java from scratch - Questions about API and integration - The most frequently asked question though was the following What are you going to do, if you are into a situation where our existing development teams resist change and dont want to modernise or move forward. How you would handle this situation.

Imagine you are looking at an X/Y plane top-down. Now imagine there is a camera at the origin (0,0). The camera has a FOV in degrees, and can rotate 360 degrees so that the FOV can include any X/Y point. Given the camera's FOV in degrees and a list of points, write an algorithm that will ensure the camera captures each point with minimal rotations.
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Senior/Principal Backend & Platform Software Engineer

Interviewed at Brinc Drones

4★
Mar 21, 2024

Imagine you are looking at an X/Y plane top-down. Now imagine there is a camera at the origin (0,0). The camera has a FOV in degrees, and can rotate 360 degrees so that the FOV can include any X/Y point. Given the camera's FOV in degrees and a list of points, write an algorithm that will ensure the camera captures each point with minimal rotations.

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