AlgoShack Associate Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Chrome and Firefox Browser automation

Log file tail last n lines where n is configurable. Followup question on how you can optimize it further incase log file size is in TBs and incase it is cluster of servers

Q1. Detailed Technical background check and discussion on past projects.
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Q2. Messaging queue and best practices
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Messaging queues are used to manage asynchronous communication between different components of a system.
• Use a reliable messaging queue system like RabbitMQ or Apache Kafka

• Ensure messages are properly formatted and serialized

• Implement message acknowledgement and retry mechanisms

• Monitor queue health and performance

• Consider message ordering and partitioning for scalability

• Avoid long-running tasks in message handlers
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Q3. Binary Search Tree twisted question
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Q4. Map Reduce concept for solving dictionary keywords
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MapReduce is a programming model for processing large data sets in parallel.
• MapReduce divides the input data into chunks and processes them in parallel.

• It consists of two phases: Map and Reduce.

• Map function takes input data and converts it into key-value pairs.

• Reduce function takes the output of Map as input and combines the values with the same key.

• It is used for solving dictionary keywords by mapping each word to a k
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Normal 3 leetcode medium questions

Machine coding round to design tail -f

Q1. Questions on internal working of os
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Q2. Questions on projects
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MCQ based Questions from topics of DSA , web development

Q1. Asked us to live code tail -f unix command
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Machine coding round

Q1. TCP/IP related questions, what happens when you search a webpage?
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Q2. Past projects discussions
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Q1. Behavioural questions on how would you tackle a particular scenario
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Q1. Resume based questions
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Q2. Event loop in nodejs
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Event loop in Node.js manages asynchronous operations by executing callback functions when certain events occur.
• Event loop is responsible for handling I/O operations, timers, and callbacks in Node.js

• It allows Node.js to perform non-blocking operations efficiently

• Event loop continuously checks the event queue for new events to execute
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Q3. Javascript es6 questions
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Q1. Promises in javascript
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Promises in JavaScript are objects representing the eventual completion or failure of an asynchronous operation.
• Promises are used to handle asynchronous operations in JavaScript.

• They can be in one of three states: pending, fulfilled, or rejected.

• Promises can be chained using .then() to handle success and .catch() to handle errors.
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