Banasthali University Placement Interview Questions

Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This was the first round of Bank of America Recruitment. It was conducted on Hirevue Platform. The timing of the Test was 90 minutes . There were some precautions that we needed to take care off before sitting for the test like Good internet connectivity , Formal dress code. It was completely web proctored test where all the video, audio and screen is recorded.
There were 5 questions in the test. 3 questions of video recordings and 2 questions of Coding.
1) Describe about your education and work experience
---> This was the first question, we were given 30 seconds to prepare for the answer and there were a button to start video and we were given 3 minutes to answer the question. 

2) Why you are a best fit for this role?
---> This was also a video Question where we were given 30 sec to prepare and 3 minutes to answer

3) This was the coding Question.
Question - Write a program that , given an integer N , sums all the whole numbers from 1 through N(both inclusive) . Do not include in your sum any of the intermediate values ( 1 and N inclusive) that are divisible by 5 or 7.
Test Input - 10
Expected output - 33

4) This was also coding question related to strings
Question - Given a string s , little Johny defined the beauty of the string as the sum of the beauty of the letters in it. The beauty of each letter is an integer between 1 to 26, inclusive , and no two letters have the same beauty.  Johny does not care about whether the letters are uppercase or lowercase , so that does not affect the beauty of letter.

Test input - ABbCcc
Expected output - 152

5) Describe what approach you followed in 2nd coding question.
---> it was a video question in which we needed to define our approach for the above coding question.

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Round duration - 70 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

I got mail on 7th December at 10:30 pm about the next round which was to be held on next day at 9:40 am .
I got the link of 1st round at 9:30 am on 8th December. It was on Cisco Webex platform . This way of technical interview round was very unique for me because we only have to open video on webex and there we were given a line number to call by phone. We need to give answer on phone and video is on through webex.
My interview started by 9:45 am . First of all interviewer asked very famous question of Interview i.e.
"Tell me about yourself"
I have given proper answer of this question including my achievements , internships and education.
The interviewer was very friendly . He kept motivating me till end of interview. He took me to the right approach in many questions.

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Round duration - 63 minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

I got call from HR at 1:43 Pm , she asked me to prepare 2nd round of interview at 2:00 Pm . She sent me the link . I was waiting for next round when she again called me that my interview had shifted from 2 to 3:30 PM . 
I started my next round of interview with the same procedure i.e. the video is on through webex and the audio is through call on bridge line number.
This was Technical + HR both round. I were asked technical as well as HR related Questions
Again the interviewer was very friendly . He treated me very well and help me out in many questions.
I got a great experience from this interview. Overall It was a good learning for me.

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