Interview Experience 129

2018

Software Development Engineer

Round 1(Online Coding round)

The test was held on CoCubes platform in which only 4 programming languages were allowed: C, C++, Java, C#. There were 3 questions for 2,3 and 5 marks, which came from a pool of ~10 questions, so different people had different questions.

Questions were from variety of topics viz. Linked List, DP, String, Arrays etc. We were given 1 hour 15 minutes for the test.

The stdout statements did not work so you cannot check your output.(however you can return your statement and that would be printed when sample test cases are run)

Round 2(Group Fly round)

I don’t know why is this called “Group Fly” round and no I don’t even wanna know ¯_(ツ)_/¯ There was only 1 question, common for everyone in the room where 5 mentors were presesnt. The question given to us was: Print all the paths from root, with a specified sum in Binary tree

There was no constraints for language Time alloted was 30 mins

Personal Observations for round 2

The answer/code need not be perfect/correct Pick one mentor, discuss question and possible test/failure cases with him/her Explain your approach in the end to a mentor Don’t badger them with a lot of questions just for the sake of asking question

Round 3(FTF Interview) It can be over skype or with one of the mentors from the earlier round It was mainly technical ,30 mins or so

Personal Observations for round 3

Questions Asked ,This is for a over the skype experience Write code for sorting a doubly linked list

Write code to clone a linked list in which each node has a random pointer pointing to a random element in the list Did not actually need to write the code just had to explain it properly Subsequent questions related to DBMS Basics(what are joins and what is index)

OOPS basic(4 features of OOPS etc)

Basics of testing, types of testing, difference between unit and integration tests(this topic was only picked up because it was in the CV)

The questions were very simple and basic The interviewver was very nice and friendly Answer using examples from personal projects/experience seemed to be appreciated more Not all answers/codes need to be perfect. Hints were given if needed It is good to be verbose with the interviewer Keep Calm Nothing is Intimidating

Round 4(FTF Interview 2) This round seemed optional as some had to give it and some did not I’m not sure what happens exactly in this round From what I gathered from other people, it is mostly related to System Design No personal observations

Round 5(Final, HR, FTF Interview 2/3) It will be taken by one of the mentors of the other round Can range anywhere from 30 mins to 1 or so hour Questions were asked mostly from CV Personal Observationa for round 5 Questions were almost strictly related to what was in the CV For me it was approx 20 minutes of questions based on CV and the 10 minutes around other stuff Some generic questions How does python’s memory management works(python was in my CV) High Level design approach of a website which shows twitter feed and simulatneously offers a chat bot service(multi threading concept) What are semaphores Rest of the questions were highly specific and in-depth based on my internship and projects and other experiences Giving details seemed recommended and confirming before diving too deep also seemed to be appreciated Interviewer was very friendly And again Keep Calm Nothing is Intimidating :-P