MicroStrategy Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Nov 2009 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My screen started with a phone interview with the hiring manager.

We began with introductory questions about my background and what I’d been doing so far, but then the conversation quickly shifted into deeper technical territory. He asked about Java garbage collection and followed up by having me describe the mark-and-sweep approach, including how you’d handle circular references.

After that, the questions broadened into systems fundamentals. I got asked distinctions like processes vs. threads, and even how caches work. It wasn’t a casual “talk about your projects” kind of call—the whole thing felt like an intense dive, and by the time it ended I could

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