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      Software Development Engineer In Test/QA Engineer Interview

      26 Jan 2012
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Redfin (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2012

      Interview

      The HR contact me to schedule the first round interview, after I provide my availability, I heard back from them that they're closed for the following week, so we schedule the interview after 2 weeks. The first phone call is really general, asked about my interest, why you choose their company, what is your top 3 strength in technical part, what position you're interested in, and what kinda company I like. After this phone call, there's a coding assignment.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. Please write a method to normalize a string which represents a file path. For the purposes of this question, normalizing means: • all single dot components of the path must be removed. For example, "foo/./bar" should be normalized to "foo/bar". • all double dots components of the path must be removed, along with their parent directory. For example, "foo/bar/../baz" should be normalized to "foo/baz". That's it. Normally, a path normalization algorithm would do a lot of other stuff, but for this question, don't try any other kind of normalization or transformation of the path. As an example, "foo//bar" should be normalized to "foo//bar" (i.e. a no-op). Use any language you feel comfortable in, we prefer Java, but it’s not required. The method should take in a string (or whatever passes for a string in the language of your choice) and return a string representing the normalized path. Please write code that you feel proud of and would check in to source control in a professional environment. 2. Once you have completed the exercise, please create ten (or more!) test cases you would you use to test the method.
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