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AnswersReverse a linked list iteratively, do it first with single pointers and then do it again with double pointers. Now do it again recursively but not tail-recursive, and then do it again tail-recursively. What do you do if it has a loop?
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Coding - 4of 0 votes
AnswersWrite a function to convert integers to roman numerals with 1=I, 5=V, 10=X, 100=C, 1003=M. E.g. 3999 = MMMCMXCIX
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Coding - 0of 0 votes
AnswersGiven a 2 dimensional array of integers representing a tictactoe board, write a function to look for winners.
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Coding - 0of 0 votes
AnswersHow would you test a vending machine.
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Testing - 4of 0 votes
AnswersGive me the best way to multiply an integer by 3.5. There are many solutions to this but (x>>1)+x+(x<<1) is the best since it is least prone to overflowing.
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Computer Architecture & Low Level - 1of 0 votes
AnswersThis guy asked me about my college, why I am here, what are my long term goals, etc. And then he asked supposed you're on the windows Vista team and there are 5 million programs we have to make sure it works for Vista, but we only have enough resources to test 5000 of them, how do you do it?
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- This you just have to explain how statistics work and tackling a lot of work by splitting them up and categorizing them.| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Testing Experience - 1of 0 votes
AnswersLast guy told me to design the T9 system, which is the predictive text system on cell phones. E.g type 49556 and get "hello" and also other words that matches 49556. More specifically, how do I store a text file containing a dictionary on a cell phone and efficiently read from it.
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