Interview Questions

Productivity is a result of the way that a business operates – the result of the way that its people, business processes, different functional units and suppliers come together to meet the needs and wants of its customers.

Productivity is the combination of intelligent planning and focused efforts and hence, it is a combination of Efficiency and Effectiveness.

Efficiency :

Efficiency is an internal measure of performance for companies that shows how well the company converts inputs into outputs. The more the ratio of outputs to inputs approaches 100 percent, the better the efficiency of the process will be. In simple terms, it is “doing things right” and comes from proper harnessing of time, cost and efforts.

Effectiveness :

Organizational effectiveness is an external measure of performance and indicates how well an organization fulfills the demands of various organizational stakeholders. Simply put, it is “doing the right things."

SQL has IsDate() function which is used to check passed value is date or not of specified format ,it returns 1(true) or 0(false) accordingly.

SELECT  ISDATE('1/08/13') AS "MM/DD/YY";

It will return 0 because passed date is not in correct format.

When amount of memory to be allocated is known beforehand i.e. at the the time of compilation, it is known as Static Memory Allocation. Once the memory is allocated statically, it cannot be deallocated during program run. So it leads to wastage of storage space.

Example:

int A[100];

When amount of memory to be allocated is not known beforehand, rather it is determined at the time of program run, it is called Dynamic Memory Allocation. It leads to efficient utilization of storage space.

Example:

cout << " Enter number of elements: ";

cin >> N;

int *A = new int[N]; // dynamic memory allocation

Best Answer for "How would you improve upon our product/ company?"

Since I’d be coming from an altogether new environment, I am bound to possess a new perspective towards everything here including the company, product, customers, environment, strategy etc. This will enable me to constructively question things which anyone else here might not do. This will help in improving the things and making the product & company better.

Having worked closely with product development team I understand how the research for product development is carried out and how is customer requirement analysed; I’d be able to provide a value addition there too.

Open addressing (closed hashing),

The methods used include: Overflow block,

 Closed addressing (open hashing)

The methods used include: Linked list, Binary tree…

Retail products often change seasonally.  Can you quickly update yourself on all the new information so you can be prepared to sell the new inventory to customers as soon as it lands on the shelf