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I was asked a series of questions ranging from leadership topics to more detailed engineering and data science questions. For example, was asked for specifics (but not low-level details) on how some machine learning algorithms worked, to test my breadth and depth of knowledge.
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Principal Software Engineer II

Interviewed at Elastic

3.8
Jun 4, 2019

I was asked a series of questions ranging from leadership topics to more detailed engineering and data science questions. For example, was asked for specifics (but not low-level details) on how some machine learning algorithms worked, to test my breadth and depth of knowledge.

Closest thing to a "coding" interview was a few mock PRs in the language required for the role. We went through a few different approaches to solving a particular problem and discussed the bottlenecks and potential pitfalls of each, with a focus on concurrency.
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Elastic

3.8
Jul 31, 2020

Closest thing to a "coding" interview was a few mock PRs in the language required for the role. We went through a few different approaches to solving a particular problem and discussed the bottlenecks and potential pitfalls of each, with a focus on concurrency.

1. What kind of mitigations you have made, when you can't achieve the target timeline for a project delivery from QA perspective? 2. What kind of challenging project deliverables you made, even your company is help you in the execution.
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Principal Engineer Quality Assurance

Interviewed at Baxter

3.6
Aug 19, 2024

1. What kind of mitigations you have made, when you can't achieve the target timeline for a project delivery from QA perspective? 2. What kind of challenging project deliverables you made, even your company is help you in the execution.

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