Symantec Interview questions for the role of a Senior Software Developer C++

Below I have mentioned a few interview questions for the role of a Senior Software Engineer at Symantec. They were looking for a Senior person with mainly Windows API programming experience.

I had 7 rounds of interview including a 'lunch with Manager' and a Director's interview. I have mentioned the questions below. I hope this would help some Developers looking for Symantec Interview Questions.

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C++/ OOPS Questions

1. Rate yourself in C++
2. The interviewer wrote a  class with 2 members , a char* and a HANDLE  and asked me to complete the class. He was mainly looking for proper assignment operator and copy constructors.
3. What is polymorphism
4. What is abstract class and when to use abstract class
5. How is virtual function implemented
6. What is vptr, is vptr created per class or per object
7. What is strlen_s() call would do?
8. When to throw or catch an exception?
9. Explain a few Design Patterns?
10. Where did you use singleton and Factory patterns?
11. What is difference between auto_ptr and shared ptr
12. Which synchronization mechanism  you have used?
13. what is deadlock
14. How to prevent dead locks
15. How ordering will prevent deadlocks
16. How dead lock is different from race conditions
17. How do you improve performance of an application?
18. Have you used any static code analysis tools?How static code analysis tools will improve performance?
19. How conscious you were with security issues while coding? How a bad program can cause security threat?
20. Have you done remote debugging? What is your debugging strategy if a production issue come?

Algorithms / Programs

1. Given a string , how to find find is there is any consecutive repeating characters.
2. Given a string , how to find is there any duplicates at all and return it.
3. How to solve the above problem in o(n) complexity.
4. Which sort algorithm you would use for sorting a char array.
5. We have a M*N matrix, starting at top left corner traverse through top left corner, then to bottom right then to bottom left and then to upper left and do this circular traversal until the middle of the Matrix is reached.

Director's  Questions

1. What is your IQ, Suppose you are in a grocery store and there are total of 100 people including you. How do you rate your IQ among those 100 people. 
2. Same above question assuming you are in a University.
3. Suppose you have a conflict with your manager and how would you resolve it.
4. Why we should hire you?
5. What are your strength and weeknesses?
6. Are you a leader or follower?
7. What is the biggest mistake that you did in your job?
8. What is the biggest challenge that you have faced?
9. Where do you see yourself in 10 or 15 years from now?