Nikhil Singhal's Blog https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/nikhilsi/feed.xml .Net Programming tips and gotchas Fri, 18 Mar 2016 23:41:25 GMT en-US hourly 1 Program Management interview questions and answers compilation https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/nikhilsi/program-management-interview-questions-and-answers-compilation Fri, 18 Mar 2016 23:41:21 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nikhilsi/?p=761 Om Spark recently revived their old but gold posts on program management interviews. ]]> Website design, SEO and Advertising blog posts compilation https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/nikhilsi/website-design-seo-and-advertising-blog-posts-compilation Fri, 18 Mar 2016 23:37:01 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nikhilsi/?p=751 Om Spark has recently re-started blog posts on various topics including Website design, SEO and Advertising. Here is a handy list of posts for your reference. ]]> Top 10 Best Practices For Website Design https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/nikhilsi/top-10-best-practices-for-website-design Fri, 18 Mar 2016 23:24:55 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nikhilsi/?p=741 Urmila Singhal from Om Spark recently posted a great article on Top 10 Best Practices For Website Design. Hope you enjoy it.]]> Want to learn more about building online presence? https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/nikhilsi/want-to-learn-more-about-building-online-presence Sun, 21 Jun 2015 22:21:45 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nikhilsi/2015/06/21/want-to-learn-more-about-building-online-presence/ If you want to learn more about building an online presence, I recommend reading and following Urmila Singhal's newest venture - www.omspark.com. She has a lot of great blog posts on starting and building your own company and of course, for the technical folks, a lot of good material on SEO, SEM and Program Management. 

]]> Overall interview evaluation parameters for a software engineer/architect https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/nikhilsi/overall-interview-evaluation-parameters-for-a-software-engineerarchitect Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:57:11 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nikhilsi/2013/11/18/overall-interview-evaluation-parameters-for-a-software-engineerarchitect/ When giving technical interviews, either as a software engineer or software architect, you are not only evaluated on technical prowess but also on a bunch of other factors that make a good or not so good hire. 

 

Read more about this on my programming interview blog at http://www.programminginterviews.info/2013/11/overall-interview-evaluation-parameters-for-a-software-engineer-architect.html

]]> How to answer software design interview questions https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/nikhilsi/how-to-answer-software-design-interview-questions Mon, 18 Nov 2013 13:30:56 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nikhilsi/2013/11/18/how-to-answer-software-design-interview-questions/ n the previous post on How to answer algorithmic programming interview questions, we discussed a templated approach on how to solve algorithmic questions. In this post, we will explore similar steps that will help you think in the correct direction while solving design questions.

Read more at How to answer software design interview questions on my programming interviews blog. 

]]> How to answer algorithmic programming interview questions https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/nikhilsi/how-to-answer-algorithmic-programming-interview-questions Mon, 18 Nov 2013 12:38:53 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nikhilsi/2013/11/18/how-to-answer-algorithmic-programming-interview-questions/ Most technical programming interviews have at least one or more programming whiteboard exercise. Almost all of such questions require you to explain your thinking on whiteboard and then design and explain your algorithm or function on the whiteboard in real time. So how do you answer algorithmic questions and make sure that your thinking and direction covers various different aspects that an interviewer is looking for.

Read more about the details on how an interviewer does the evaluation here: How to answer algorithmic programming interview questions.

In the next post we will look at such a templated approach to solving design interview questions.

 


]]> LINQ design interview question https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/nikhilsi/linq-design-interview-question Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:58:25 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nikhilsi/2013/04/19/linq-design-interview-question/ LINQ is one of my favorite interview topics for many reasons. It allows me to check a candidate's ability to define logic, use SQL skills, showcase lambda expressions, distill the problem into easy steps and of course, see some code in action. Also, since LINQ code is generally quite compact, it is perfect for white boarding.

I was recently helping a friend solve a problem and felt that it could be modified to an excellent interview question. It has a bit of algorithm design, heavy use of simple to medium complex LINQ and is not more that 10-15 lines of actual code. Perfect.

Question: Given a class of students  (ID, Name, Grades) with results for at least 2 semesters, find the students whose Grades have significantly improved in the second semester as compared to the first. Bonus: List out top 25% of the students.

To read the algorithm and see the entire code solution go to my programming interviews blog at http://www.programminginterviews.info/2013/04/linq-design-interview-question.html

]]> Big list of LINQ interview questions and answers compiled https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/nikhilsi/big-list-of-linq-interview-questions-and-answers-compiled Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:46:41 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nikhilsi/2013/04/15/big-list-of-linq-interview-questions-and-answers-compiled/ I have had a number of users ping me asking about writing interview questions on LINQ. I actually have a 8 detailed posts on LINQ interview questions. Here is a compilation of the posts:

 

LINQ interview questions part 3

LINQ interview questions part 2

Entity Framework interview questions

LINQ JOIN interview questions

LINQ SKIP and TAKE interview questions

LINQ interview questions

LINQ - Group, Sort and Count Words in a sentence by length

LINQ Query, Selection, Partial Selections and Aggregations

 

Hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did while writing them.

]]> Entity Framework Interview Question - Explain ENUM usage in EF5 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/nikhilsi/entity-framework-interview-question-explain-enum-usage-in-ef5 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:35:42 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nikhilsi/2013/03/22/entity-framework-interview-question-explain-enum-usage-in-ef5/ Entity Framework 5 introduced support for Enum’s amongst other new features. This was a long awaited feature by the community.To learn how enums work with entity framework, how can you code them, how to use them, how they are represented in the database, head over to my Explain ENUM usage in EF5 on my programming interviews blog (http://www.programminginterviews.info/2013/03/Entity-Framework-Interview-Question-Explain-ENUM-usage-in-EF5.html ).

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