National Instruments(NI) Interview Experience for Staff Software Engineer
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Attended an interview with National Instruments(NI) recently.Gave 3 coding roundsRound 1:Online coding test where 2 questions were asked and the duration was 2 Hrs.questio...
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Attended an interview with National Instruments(NI) recently. Gave 3 coding rounds
Round 1 Online coding test where 2 questions were asked and the duration was 2 Hrs. question 1: Given an archer. He would not stop shooting arrows until and unless his average is more that 9. Score for few shots were given and we had to calculate the minimum number of shots he would have to play to get an average of 9.5 or more. question 2: an array is given in which only 2 numbers can be swapped at a time. how many distinct arrays can be formed by this wat ex: array[2,3,2,3,3]
result 7
Round 2 It was an online interview in which the interviewer gave 2 questions which were to be explained and solved question are as below: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/minimum-number-platforms-required-railwaybus-station-set-2-map-based-approach/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/search-an-element-in-a-sorted-and-pivoted-array/
Round 3 I got stuck with one question and could not proceed much The question was based on preferential voting algorithm http://numerical.recipes/whp/ky/kemenyyoung.html Since I could not solve this question completely I was not taken for further rounds
About This Question
This is a candidate experience report from a national instruments interview for a swe role (staff level) during the phone screen round reported in 2025.
It covers the following topics: Arrays, Networking .