media.net interview questions
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CS fundamentals
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What is the difference between Mutex and Semaphore?
Explain the difference between a process and a thread.
Explain how DNS lookup works
Explain Semaphores and their properties
Explain Shared locks vs Exclusive locks
Explain indexing in DBMS and how it works
Explain virtual memory and its advantages
Explain deadlocks and methods to avoid them
Explain the TCP three-way handshake process
How and why is Fourier Transform used in MFCC?
Explain Loading and Linking in program execution
Difference between soft link and hard link in Linux
What happens when you type 'google.com' in a web browser?
What is database indexing and how does it work internally?
Explain man-in-the-middle attack and how it can be prevented
Write SQL queries involving GROUP BY, JOINs, and subqueries.
Write SQL queries to retrieve data based on given conditions
Explain functionalities and protocols of different OSI layers
Explain Cookies and Sessions and their use in web applications
Explain what happens when you type www.google.com in a browser
Explain virtual table (vtable) and virtual table pointer (vptr).
Explain search and insertion operations in linear probing hashing.
Explain dynamic binding and write a code example to demonstrate it.
What is the significance of Delta and Double Delta features in MFCC?
Write an SQL query to find the nth largest element using any method.
Explain TCP 3-way handshake and why 2-way handshake is not sufficient
Implement a basic UDP client and echo server using socket programming
What happens when a process encounters a function in its text segment?
Explain your test strategy and test plan for a medium-scale application
Why is transfer learning used, and what are its benefits and drawbacks?
Write an SQL query to find the second largest element using subqueries.
Explain how you handled complex UI scenarios and frames in UI automation
Given a very large array, which sorting algorithm would you use and why?
DSA
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Find all bridges in a graph.
Traverse a matrix in spiral order
Explain and implement Kadane’s Algorithm
Print each word of a string in vertical fashion
Solve medium-level DSA problems based on arrays
Arrange given numbers to form the biggest possible number
Given the rank array and N, reconstruct the original array
Merge all overlapping intervals given a list of intervals.
Given an array, return the product of all elements except self
Find a tour that visits all petrol pumps (circular tour problem).
Construct a binary tree given its inorder and postorder traversals.
Convert number M to N using the minimum number of given operations.
Check whether a given string is an interleaving of two other strings.
Find the length of the maximum non-decreasing subsequence in an array
System design
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Explain how a load balancer works
Design a chatting application similar to WhatsApp.
Explain what a load balancer is and why it is used
Object-Oriented Design question (design-level OOP problem).
Why is composition preferred over inheritance in most cases?
How would you scale this chat box system to production level?
Design an API to track total number of calls received in the last 5 minutes
Aptitude
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Two ducks move in opposite directions along the circumference of a circular pond at speeds 10 km/hr and 18 km/hr, starting from diametrically opposite points. Find the time of their second meeting given the radius of the pond is 7 km.
Two people A and B stand on the diameter of a circle of diameter 7. A moves towards B at 10 m/s and B moves towards A at 8 m/s, both moving only along the circumference. After how much time will they meet for the second time?
Logical reasoning questions testing analytical thinking
Puzzles
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Given 51 cards from a standard deck of 52, find the missing card with minimum memory usage and discuss iterations and comparisons required.
Draw a square with double the area of a given square such that the original square is fully covered and its corners lie on the edges of the new square.
Given a rectangle with diagonal corners at (0,0) and (l,b). Inside it are N points representing centers of circles with radius R (circles may overlap and extend outside the rectangle). Starting at (0,0), you can move in any direction without leaving the rectangle or touching any circle. Determine whether you can reach (l,b).
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Candidate interview reports most often cover CS fundamentals (51%) and DSA (36%).
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