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The SQL questions were a fairly standard "design a table, give me the SQL queries to do X, Y, and Z". I made sure the table design was 3NF (although I'm not sure he caught that). Then he asked me to do a simple SELECT/JOIN query, and then another that was more complicated. The multithreading question was detailing a solution for "put" and "fetch" methods for a BlockingQueue. The methods had to maintain the order of the threads attempting the operations.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Glassdoor

3.9★
Dec 19, 2014

The SQL questions were a fairly standard "design a table, give me the SQL queries to do X, Y, and Z". I made sure the table design was 3NF (although I'm not sure he caught that). Then he asked me to do a simple SELECT/JOIN query, and then another that was more complicated. The multithreading question was detailing a solution for "put" and "fetch" methods for a BlockingQueue. The methods had to maintain the order of the threads attempting the operations.

Write code to sum the values contained in two memory slots into a third memory slot, using only 3 instructions: zero <slot> increment <slot> jlt <slot1>,<slot2> <location>, where jlt=jump to <location> if <slot1>is less than <slot2>.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Walmart

3.4★
Nov 13, 2011

Write code to sum the values contained in two memory slots into a third memory slot, using only 3 instructions: zero <slot> increment <slot> jlt <slot1>,<slot2> <location>, where jlt=jump to <location> if <slot1>is less than <slot2>.

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