Avalara Technologies Senior Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Normal online code / frontend test

Q1. How would you build book my show
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Designing and building a platform similar to BookMyShow involves creating a user-friendly interface for booking tickets for various events.
• Develop a user-friendly website and mobile app for users to browse and book tickets for movies, concerts, plays, etc.

• Implement a secure payment gateway for users to make online transactions.

• Integrate a database to store information about events, venues, tickets, and user bookings.

• In...read more
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Q1. Solid principals, awareness of patterns
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Q1. How would you build tinyurl like service, systems designs
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To build a tinyurl-like service, design a system with a URL shortening algorithm, a database to store mappings, and a redirect service.
• Use a hashing algorithm to generate short URLs from long URLs (e.g. MD5, SHA-256).

• Store the mappings of short URLs to long URLs in a database (e.g. MySQL, Redis).

• Implement a redirect service that takes a short URL, looks up the corresponding long URL in the database, and redirects the u...read more
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Q1. Non-technical questions
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It was some sorting question - 1 Hour JAVA

Q1. Some selenium and java based question
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Q2. How would kill the child process

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Use the kill command with the child process ID to terminate it

• Find the child process ID using tools like ps or pgrep

• Use the kill command with the appropriate signal (e.g. SIGTERM, SIGKILL) and the child process ID

• Example: kill -9

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