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Some perennial favorite "interview questions" of mine:

1. Tell me the difference between final, finally and finalize in Java. (Of course it was completely irrelevant to the discussion that my resume at that time never claimed that I knew Java; The only mention of Java was a library that I had used as a black box)

2. This is a fairly new one but most software engineers must have seen equivalents over the years :).

Rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 on the following:

-- Machine Learning

-- Convex Optimization

-- Linear Algebra

You know what was really disappointing? The second question was asked to me first by the recruiter (whom I don't blame for asking me the question) and then again by an engineer (after we had just concluded a long discussion on my projects touching upon those topics).



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