---------------------------- Interview 1 ---------------------------------
- Why is a database useful? Why not use a file instead?
- What are stored procedures and what are the benefits?
- Write a program to get the nth Fibonacci number
- Discussion about patterns and practices
- What is database normalization? When would you use it and when would you not?
What data can be left denormalized in a database? What are the benefits or drawbacks of normalization?
- Discussion on asp.net request processing and page life cycle
- Discussion on asp.net view state and session state management options. What is preferred?
- Write a program to merge two arrays while removing duplicate elements
- Write a program to find acronyms ("Interview Question" becomes "I.Q.")
- Why did you choose the C language for the above?
- What do you do at work when you don't have work?
- What was the most challenging technical problem you solved recently?
- Design discussion on web services on how to build scalable web services
- Discussion about concepts of threading and what are the threading options available in .NET
- Why does the UI get unresponsive when running a long operation on a single thread?
- Coding Question: You are given a sorted array but the elements are shifted to the left or right by 'i' number of places. Write code to find if a given number is present in this array.
- Coding Question: Write a program to merge two sorted arrays. First array has extra space at the end to accommodate the second array.
- Why didn't you apply to Microsoft yet?
- Why should I hire you?
------------------------- Interview 2 ---------------------------------
- How do you resolve Asp.net view-state encryption problems on server farm?
- How many indexes for a query from a web page having 10 search fields?
- How do you debug a performance issue with a web page?
- What are the pros and cons of ADO.NET Transactions vs Transactions within a stored procedure.
- When do you call your code complete?
- What test cases do you put in your unit tests?
- What is a star schema in the data warehousing world?
- Write code to print a 2 dimensional matrix in spiral sequence
- Write code to remove characters present in string S1 from string S2.
- Discussion about Storing log file (10 Meg) in database vs on the file system. What are pro and cons of each approach?
- What steps are necessary to protect payment or user data in an e-commerce application?
- Write a hashing function for a hashtable that can contain 1 million rows.
- Design Question: Given a tree control in a Windows User Interface. How would you read information from a database and display it in the tree control. The tree has arbitrary levels and each level can contain arbitrary number of items in it.
- Design a SQL table to store the folder and file system hierarchy. This table has to also support search for the file/folder name.
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