Debugging Interview Questions
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AnswersAmazon website was working fine till yesterday.
- A V September 23, 2020 in India for Ring
//However in last 24 hours, the order processing(Delivery Estimates) has been taking longer than usual.| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
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AnswersIf you find your web-services are slow, So where you start debugging and what could be the reasons for performance slow down.
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AnswersThe amazon site was working just fine until yesterday. But in the past 24 hours processing the customer orders is taking a really long time.
- teli.vaibhav October 30, 2016 in United States
How would you debug and fix the issue?
When I asked if anything had changed in the past 24 hours, I was told several new products had been added after which the performance issues were noticed.| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
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Game Programmer Debugging - 0of 0 votes
AnswersWhen do you receive error 404 on JSP?
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JP Morgan SDE-3 Debugging - 0of 0 votes
AnswersHi.For the online assessment test - Debugging , which programming languages code snippet I can expect?Thank you !
- Priti January 23, 2016 in United States| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Amazon Software Developer Debugging - 0of 0 votes
AnswersSuppose your application is hanged in production environment at customer place, how would you diagnose the problem ?
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AnswersHow to debug deadlock or heap corruption from DUMP using WinDbg tool?
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Microsoft SDE-2 Debugging - 0of 0 votes
AnswerHow Garbage collector know if something is not used and needs to be removed?
- Tom Walker June 07, 2015 in United States| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Ebay Software Developer Coding Compiler Debugging Java - 0of 0 votes
Answersasked if i know unix, linux scripting.
- Tom Walker June 07, 2015 in United States
if given 100 servers, you deploying your app in those servers. The server creates log. The logs can contain error messages. how would you group and count the error messages from all servers and receive them using unix commands.| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Ebay Software Developer Automata Debugging System Design Unix - 1of 1 vote
AnswersHow would you increase efficiency of a hive query?
- Tom Walker June 07, 2015 in United States| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Amazon Software Developer Data Mining Data Structures Database Debugging SQL - 0of 0 votes
AnswersIdentify the flaws / limitations in the following ConvertToNumber method:
- JSDUDE March 14, 2015 in United States for Cloud + Enterprisepublic static bool ConvertToNumber(string str) { bool canConvert = false; try { int n = Int16.Parse(str); if (n != 0) { canConvert = true; } } catch (Exception ex) { } bool retval = false; if (canConvert == true) { retval = true; } return retval; }
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Microsoft Software Developer Debugging - 0of 0 votes
AnswersFind and fix the bugs in the following function that is supposed to remove the head element from a singly linked list.
- americano- January 24, 2015 in United States for Cloudvoid RemoveHead (node * head) { free(head); head = head - > next; }
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Microsoft SDET Debugging - 0of 0 votes
Answersif an application hung in customer box , how to whether that is due to dead lock?
- gopi.komanduri November 06, 2014 in United States
i suggested to take .dmp file and use windbg etc , but he said , he dont have that much time to take dump file etc. I suggested process explorer tool and if application hang , the top call in more than one thread will be like wait call. but he said he is looking for some other tool.
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Adap.tv Software Architect Debugging Experience unix system programmin unix system programming - 0of 2 votes
AnswersDifference between a crash and exception.
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Difference between macros and inline functions.
Mfc: message maps and virtual functions.
Different calling convention.
Late n early binding...
Garbage collector algorithm. When gc will fail to clean the memory.
How to know heap size, crash dump analysis, What is a stack n how to know stack memory size.
Commands in windbg.
Questions on Critical section, mutex, semaphores. Can we use mutex in single process and how?
Working of MSIL and JIT COMPILER.
Can a C# code, use c++ code and call kernel functions like createfile.
Areas: dot net, oops, operating systems, thread synchronization.
Difference in execution steps of c++ and c# code| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Microsoft Software Engineer / Developer Assembly C++ Data Structures Debugging Object Oriented Design Operating System Threads - 0of 0 votes
Answerwhat are types of memory issues one faces
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Samsung Software Engineer / Developer Debugging - 0of 0 votes
AnswersHow will you debug the issue when trying to sync the contacts of smartphone with PC and all the contacts does not sync.
- Surekhag28 July 26, 2014 in India for Kindle| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Amazon Quality Assurance Engineer Debugging - 0of 0 votes
AnswersWhile playing NFS most wanted on a desktop, the application crashes.
- kiranpm86 February 24, 2014 in India
Debug the scenario?| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
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AnswersA Desktop Java application which was working till yesterday crashes today --- no help from Java debugger. How do u go about debugging this?
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AnswersVLC player installable is crashing. Debug
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Amazon Quality Assurance Engineer Debugging - -1of 1 vote
AnswersWhat happens when you type a link in any browser and click GO button? List all steps.
- KevinK February 21, 2014 in United States
What should be the issue if the browser app build that i have today is 1 second 250 milliseconds slower than yesterday's build? ASSUME: WiFi is perfect, loading 10 webpages from a controlled server - hence there are no infrastructure or server side delays causing this.
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Google Principal Software Engineer Debugging - 4of 4 votes
AnswersYou have written a memory manager and after using it your coworker complains that he is facing severe issues of fragmentation. What could be the reason(s) and how can you fix it
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NVIDIA Software Engineer / Developer Computer Architecture & Low Level Debugging Operating System - 0of 0 votes
AnswersYoutube is not playing the selected video. What could be the problem and how to debug this issue?
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Amazon Testing / Quality Assurance Debugging - 0of 0 votes
AnswersGiven a two dimensional matrix of booleans, there is a function that returns the number of "true regions".
A region is a group of True values aligned vertically or horizontally.T T <= 1 region T F T F <= 2 regions F T
Question 1: How would you test a function that solve this problem, but is written by another developer. How many tests cases do you see?
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Question 2: Now write the code to solve this problem. What are the time and space complexities?| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Algorithm Arrays Data Structures Debugging Microsoft Testing - 1of 1 vote
AnswersGiven two arrays of ints that are sets, create a function to merge them to create a new set.
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A set must pass on these three conditions:
- All values are positive
- Sorted
- Non-duplicates| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Algorithm Arrays Data Structures Debugging Microsoft - 0of 0 votes
AnswersTell me if a array of integers is a set.
- hnrqbaggio January 24, 2013 in United States for Office
A set must pass on these three conditions:
- All values are positive
- Sorted
- Non-duplicates
After the first solution, I was asked about time and space complexity and to create 5 test cases for my function.| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
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AnswersThere is alarm in a mobile and mobile is switched off when alarm is set. how to debug this situation? write all the scenarios u approach to debug this issue??
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Amazon Software Engineer in Test Debugging - 0of 0 votes
AnswersSuppose you are troubleshooting a bug in a Windows application deployed in the field to several hundred users on identical hardware/OS configurations, and has been stable until a recent upgrade was rolled out a week ago. Now some users are reporting that the app unexpectedly exits without warning or reporting an error when working in a particular area.
- Jeffery July 20, 2012 in United States
Describe how you would go about solving this problem.
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Qualcomm Testing / Quality Assurance Debugging - 0of 0 votes
AnswersWhen trying to send a SMS from a mobile if it fails? How do you debug or troubleshoot this problem?
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Amazon Software Engineer in Test Debugging