questions and answers from a computer engineer

Welcome to A2K; I really like tea time.

You may choose to focus on specialty areas including artificial intelligence (intelligent systems for applications such as robotics, language understanding, knowledge acquisition, reasoning, computer vision, and pattern recognition), computer systems (the design and analysis of computers including the topics of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) systems, computer architecture, computer networks, and integrated circuits), or systems and computations (including the integration of both hardware and software into a coherent system). In addition you should have strong analytical skills and be detail oriented.

You have 20 minutes:

How would you deal with changes being made a week or so before the ship date?

How would you deal with a bug that no one wants to fix? Both the SDE and his lead have said they won't fix it.

Write a function that counts the number of primes in the range [1-N]. Write the test cases for this function.

Given a MAKEFILE (yeah a makefile), design the data structure that a parser would create and then write code that iterates over that data structure executing commands if needed.

Write a function that inserts an integer into a linked list in ascending order.

Write the test cases for this function.

Test the save dialog in Notepad.

Write the InStr function. Write the test cases for this function.

Write a function that will return the number of days in a month (not using System.DateTime).

You have 3 jars. Each jar has a label on it: white, black, or white&black. You have 3 sets of marbles: white, black, and white&black. One set is stored in one jar. The labels on the jars are guaranteed to be incorrect (i.e. white will not contain white).

Which jar would you choose from to give you the best chances of identifying which set of marbles in is in which jar.

Write the test cases for a vending machine.


Good luck.