Hi Bin,
I just finished a frustrating interview with Credit Suisse.
It's just a phone screen, but many questions I cannot answer. When you have time, please add some comments to below questions.
And because I work from home for the interview, so I can record the whole call. It's shared to you in another email. Please give me some comments about how I behaved, just assume if you were the interviewer, what's your feeling about this candidate?
It's not that urgent, so just do it only when you can find time. I know you have a lot of work to do, so don't waste too much of you time.
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1. describe one of your best coding challenges in 2 to 3 years, that can show off your coding abilities and your object oriented skills.
Rong: I mentioned NIO server I had hands on experience.
Interrupted by him, he said: the key thing I'm asking for is the specific coding that you personally did.
Rong: I should not mention I lead a team, because maybe that's the reason he suspect I describe other developers' work as mine. I feel for developer role, management experience is a downside factor.
2. Describe how did the single threaded application avoid blocking IO.
Rong: I cannot articulate how NIO works. I actually indeed created a NIO server. That's true, but I don't know how to explain well in phone screen, and I cannot recall some details such as the class, methods.
3. He continued to asked some details about NIO, and I cannot recall details.
4. Now he start normal quiz procedure. I only list difficult ones here, but I attached the full list FYI.
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Would you want to implement a maximum queue depth?(I didn't know what's maximum queue depth mean)
What happens if your queue backsup?(I don't known what's that mean)
Would you want a maximum length? Why?
What happens if your producer hit the maximum length?
Do you know what's the completion services?
There is an alternative that you can implement producer/consumer without a queue?
What are the 3 different ways of creating a thread?(implement Runnable, extend thread, what's the third?)
Different between Runnable and Callable? (Callable return result, Callable throw Exception)
Any other differences or advantages for one over the other?
Let's say we have a process that receives request to do work. And each request has no dependency on each other.
And the request queue backs up. How would you solve this?
(I don't know what's backs up mean. So I assume it means the queue is full. So requesters are blocked and processor will process one by one.)
When you want to use a timer of some kind, what are the different way you can do it in your code?
(I said there is a scheduler class?? not sure if there is)
How would you shut down the multi-threaded system? let's assume you write your own multi-threaded system.
(use countdownlatch?)
What if the thread is blocked?
(call thread.interrupt())
That's it?
What's the exception chaining? (I don't know)
Apart from try-catch block, how can you ensure all exceptions in thread pool are caught by our code?
What's meant by safe publication and the context thread safty shared object retrieval?
fail-fast vs fail-safe?
How would you use the future task? Which method would you use? How would you retrieve the result later?
Do you know the method, what's that called?
Difference between semophore and mutex?
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