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Looking for a job right now, found these sites to be useful for interview questions:
http://maxnoy.com/interviews.html
http://discuss.fogcreek.com/techinterview/
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=976998
The interesting thing is, that nearly all the places I sent my resume to asked for my grades (never thought anyone would care about those). This is weird since I’ve got quite a bit of work experience behind me… One place even asked for my psychometric scores
At any rate, it looks like the job market is really good in Israel now, with lots of companies doing really interesting things.
Some things I was asked in Interviews that I didn’t know: Cache coherency, Priority Inversion, Differences between floating point results when compiling in debug and release code on Intel CPUs.
The first two can be found easily on Wikipedia - the last one has to do with the fact that Intel CPUs use 80 bit precision for FP registers, but when you write the values out to RAM they’re stored as floats or doubles (precision is cut off). When you compile in Release and debug modes, instruction order can be switched around causing FP values to be written back and read from RAM in different orders so precision is cut off at different stages leaving us with different results - neat ‘eh…
Wishing everyone a great Passover vacation!!!





