I had to show understanding of the MVC pattern. I also had to show understanding of typical N-tier client/server architecture.
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The Technical Interview consisted of a coding problem for an LRU Cache. For the big session there were two coding problems reversing a singly linked list and a problem showing a list of messages based on a specific timeframe. One hour session was focused on Architecture, high level design, how is composed the architecture of the projects where I have participated. Other questions were examples of challenging projects, how to solve human conflicts in a working environment. The remaining two questions were based on how to manage a project (estimating, planning, coordinating, delivering, and maintaining), and about the phases of the software life cycle (requirements determination, analysis, design, coding, QA, implementation, and support.
Same old bunch of questions evaluating competitive programming skills instead of evaluating work experience. That's why they are lagging behind the market compared to other fortune 50 companies and basically have no innovation.
For the architectural question, I was asked: "How would you start architecting a Netflix clone?"
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They asked technical questions on my skill set and gave me some requirements and asked me to provide a solution for the given problem.
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