Adobe - Technical round Questions asked for Fresher

Adobe - Technical round Questions asked for Fresher
He was friendly at the start but this interview was my worst. He asked me my favorite subject. I said that it was Programming. (He laughed at that)

1. Which are the four storage classes in C.

Answer : static, extern, register, auto
2. Given a program:

int i;

int main()
{

int j;

int *k = (int *) malloc (sizeof(int));

...

}

Where are each of these variables stored?
Answer : I started off correctly, but he was able to confuse me. He brought in shared libraries, static libraries fundas into the discussion. We had a discussion for about twenty-minutes on this. Finally, he was happy with one of my answers because I had deduced which policy made sense and answered correctly. He said that out of all the people interviewed so far (I was second last), nobody had been able to answer all of these questions correctly.
3. Question on polymorphism's.
this is easy - get it from any C++ book. He tried to confuse me again, but this time I was ready and he was finally satisfied.
Then he looked at my grades and said that out of all your grades, you have only two Bs and one of them is in Compilers. Why? (Damn it.. three non-A grades and that's all they ask about. What's wrong with this world?!)
Didn't you like Compilers? "Not in particular", I replied. "Fine. Now, I HAVE to ask you questions on compilers", he said.
4. He again went back to the first question he had asked me. Once again, I had no satisfactory answer for him.
5. Then he wrote out some code and asked me how the compiler will generate code for it. I gave some answer, but he was clearly not satisfied. I thought it was all over by then.
Then, he asked me a DIP question. He commented that he had given that particular question to his juniors in IITB once and they had done a very good job at it. The problem is this:
A teacher is writing on a blackboard and we want to pass all the information on the blackboard over a low-bandwidth network in real-time. How do we do it.
Answer : I first suggested that we capture only a small portion of the board. To locate that portion, we could search for the chalk in the prof's hand - of course, taking care that it had the blackboard in the background (no point capturing a video of the prof scratching his chin, na?). Further, if the prof was writing only text, we could convert the video into text by OCR and then transmitting. Simple diagrams could also be reduced to a set of vector-graphics instructions (we rarely, see the prof shading stuff). I think he liked my approach, but was not completely satisfied. Anyway, we left it at that and went forward.
6. Given a set of words one after another, give me a data structure so that you'll know whether a word has appeared already or not.
Answer : I suggested various alternatives. but he kept helping me and finally, we came up with an array of pointers to 26-trees (each node of the tree has 26 children). Store every word as a path from the root to a leaf with pointers in the correct places. For example, hello would be stored as - pointer from 'h' index of the root array to a node which had a pointer from 'e' index of it's array to a node which had a pointer from 'l' index of the array.. and so on. This is both time and space efficient.
7. He asked me some questions on Inter process Communication: What's a semaphore? How are they used? He would often pick out words from my answers and ask me what they meant. He wanted to make sure that I really knew what I was talking about. I was able to answer all his questions, but I made the mistake of telling him, when we started off that I didn't know much about this subject as I had done it a long time ago. He was very annoyed at that, apparently because a lot of people before me had said this.
8. He then asked me some DB fundas. Transaction. Serializability, Consistent state, etc. I was able to answer all of them. I stumbled around a bit in a few questions where I was explaining correctly, but not using the keywords that he was looking for.
9. Finally, he asked me whether I had any questions. I thought that I should say something to make him realize that I was not completely stupid and so asked him whether there was any logic to the order in which the short-listed candidates were called. This turned out to be a dumb move. The order was alphabetic and he sent me off with a parting shot, saying "You guys do pattern recognition and stuff and still you can't recognize such a simple pattern" Me and my big mouth! Moral of the story: Don't ask questions for the sake of asking.