Principal Software Development Engineer Interview Questions

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Tell us about a time you have competing priorities and how did you handle the situation? Tell us about your experience dealing with customers? Tell us about how requirements are developed in an agile framework?
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Senior Principal Systems Engineer

Interviewed at Northrop Grumman

3.8
Apr 4, 2024

Tell us about a time you have competing priorities and how did you handle the situation? Tell us about your experience dealing with customers? Tell us about how requirements are developed in an agile framework?

1 Technical interview: 4 coding questions in 45 min. - swap 2 values without using aditional variables - code a search algorithm, do not use algorithm lib from STL 2 interview - Explain Assert bahavior in C++, Exception behavior and pros/cons 3 Interview Explain memmory management strategies at high throughput, Design constant memory access for high memory allocation data structures. 4 System design 5 Behavioral + system design interview
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Cadence Design Systems

4.1
Sep 26, 2023

1 Technical interview: 4 coding questions in 45 min. - swap 2 values without using aditional variables - code a search algorithm, do not use algorithm lib from STL 2 interview - Explain Assert bahavior in C++, Exception behavior and pros/cons 3 Interview Explain memmory management strategies at high throughput, Design constant memory access for high memory allocation data structures. 4 System design 5 Behavioral + system design interview

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