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eSpace internship exam
Today (17th May 2016) I had my exam for software internship position at eSpace company. Despite what a colleague told me about his exam yesterday “It had strange questions asking about strange technical terms”, I decided to attend the exam, to just have the experience even if I would not be hired by the company.
Company Office
The first impression about the company office was nice. I’ve only been to 2 tech companies here in Egypt (espace and baderIT). ESpace has a relatively wide open area for employees desks and a nice meeting room (where the exam were held). However I noticed something strange, the company door was closed and we had to ring the bell to get in.
Exam Structure
It was a paper based exam for one hour. You should choose 3 out of 7 topics : System Structure, Security, DataBases, Web Development, Mobile Development, Open-Source & Linux and Algorithms & DataStructures. Most of them are covered by courses we study in our 3rd year at our faculty. However, I chose the topics I feel most familiar with: web, linux and algorithms.
Web Development Part
There were 3 questions:
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What happens in web browser after you enter an address into it?
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How does Google search work? and why is it fast?
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What is Internet Of Things? give examples.
Open Source and Linux Part
There were 3 questions:
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What is fork bomb?
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You are stuck at a desert island and you have to choose 5 command-line utilities to live with, what would you choose?
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Explain how the linux boot works as much detailed as possible starting from pressing the power button.
Algorithms and Datastructure Part
There were 2 questions:
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What is dead lock? and how to avoid it?
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How to detect a loop in a linked-list?
Not to mention: this is my copy of the exam. There were different copies of it with different combinations of questions.
Well, I was not able to answer the majority of the questions. However my next posts may be about my searching results about questions I couldn’t answer.
That’s it for now.