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Software Engineer International Interview Questions
Vamsi Krishna
posted on 2 Dec 2016
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
6 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. 2 coding questions, Projects,
- Q2. Coding questions, Projects, ML, cloud, Parallel Computing
- Q3. Discussions on projects
- Q4. Redmond Interview
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Easy coding questions.
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 3
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Two coding questions and discussions.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Most of the focus on coding questions, and projects and discussions on other computer science topics.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: With in 5 minutes round is finished.
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: 3 Coding questions, Projects, Many HR questions, lot of disscusions on other cs topics.
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Easy coding questions.
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 3
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Two coding questions and discussions.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Most of the focus on coding questions, and projects and discussions on other computer science topics.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: With in 5 minutes round is finished.
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: 3 Coding questions, Projects, Many HR questions, lot of disscusions on other cs topics.
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Tell me about yourself?
- Q2. Given a biased coin, how do you create an unbiased toss?
- Q3. Once you have done that, what is the expected number of turns you need to wait for getting the first unbiased toss
- Q4. Suppose a man starts at 0, and has to go to 20 on the number line. He can either move in steps of 1 or 2. How many number of ways can he do this? Extending this...read more
- Q5. Have you applied to any PhD programs?
- Q6. Given a number line, and we have a rod of length L. We drop the rod on the line, what is the probability that it covers an integer?
- Q7. Suppose there are N chocolates, and I pick a random one, and eat that chocolate and also everything to the right of it. I then continue this process with the re...read more
- Q8. Supposed there is a party, with 9 people, each person wants to give gifts to 3 people and also wants a gift from them. Is this scenario possible? If not, when i...read more
- Q9. Given a tank with liquid, and there are flows in and out, inflow is U and outflow is Kx, where x is current height of liquid in tank, all needed quantities give...read more
- Q10. What are your interests? (Be careful, align the interests to their profile)
- Q11. Given there are 2 kinds of coins spread all over the world, and we start picking coins, what is the expected number of coins to pick, to have both kinds of coin...read more
- Q12. Given a window of 1 hour, and two friends want to meet, given that the arrival time follows a uniform distribution, what is the probability that they will arriv...read more
- Q13. Grilled me about my internship, (time series modeling) went in depth about why I did this, that, etc. If you have a time series or ML project, they will grill y...read more
- Q14. Given we have a (un)biased die, with given probabilities, and we toss it till we get a sum of 100 or more (basically if the sum crosses 100), and we stop. What ...read more
- Q15. What do you think our team does. (I gathered this information by asking a lot of questions from other interviewers. It helps a lot)
- Q16. What do you know about options?
- Q17. What is a call option? Why are call options bought?
- Q18. If I have to buy fuel from you, what option would I buy?
- Q19. If we increase the volatility of the stock, how does the price of a call option change?
- Q20. How do you calculate the price of a call option?
- Q21. Is the price of a barrier option more or less than a normal option?
- Q22. Do you have any questions?
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: The resume shortlist, I feel, was slightly unfair. They had put a cut-off of 9 for branches outside EE/CS.
Tips: Don't worry, they might not follow this next year. Your resume should have a mix of probability, finance (courses on these are enough, though internships will really help)
They don't care about your PoRs in the interview, but this may matter for the resume shortlist (Assuming it's done fairly) So be sure to include them.
Round: Test
Experience: There were 30 MCQ questions, 10 each on the above mentioned sections. There is no dearth of time, so you can think clearly and solve the question. I found that quant was the hardest of the lot, followed by coding followed by ML.
ML questions will be on SVMs, ANNs, Ensemble learning methods, Hypothesis testing, Feature selection, Model selection etc. the standard topics you can find in "Elements of Statistical Learning" by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman.
The coding section was mostly on arrays, data structures (binary tree, mostly), recursion, and one subjective question.
For quant, you need to be really well versed in probability, definite integrals (Not kidding), and other JEE math.
Tips: You'll need to do really well in atleast one of the sections to be shortlisted. Even if you are non CS/EE, (assuming you don't have experience in coding) you can do really well in ML section. Aim for that and prepare in advance. Once you are through to the interview, you just need to give them a reason to hire you. :)
Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes
Total Questions: 30
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The lady who interviewed me was a chemE graduate from IIT Bombay. She was friendly and willing to help when asked about a problem. Overall, very good interview experience.
Tips: For all interviews, I'll say this. Ask a lot of questions. They are very interested in explaining what they do, and feel free to interrupt them if you don't understand something. Always try to relate what they say to your interest. That way you'll bring new perspective into the interview. And that's very useful, believe me. If they have shortlisted you, they want to hire you. You just have to give them a reason to. Always relate your experiences and your interests with what they do. if you do that, they will find a role for you, somewhere. Do not worry. I was interested in machine learning and I got a finance profile. (They have a team in that profile that does ML)
For quant questions, I would suggest thinking out loud and interacting each step of the way. They care more about your thinking than about the answer. They will point out the errors and you can correct them. Don't worry about silences, as long as you think out loud, it will not be a problem.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Again, very friendly interview. The interviewer will lead you on, and assist you if you're facing any difficulty. :) Just be sure to be jovial and interactive.
Tips: Same as above.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Very technical, serious interview. I think he was the senior guy. He still helped out a lot.
Tips: Be to the point, he was more interested in the technical knowledge.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The final interview I had. He was very helpful, and was very eager to talk about the company and what they do. He had an extensive knowledge of finance, options (obviously). The course on Mathematical Finance by the maths department was very useful. You need to have a good knowledge of options for getting through this.
Tips: Same as the first interview.
Skills: Quant+Math, Problem Solving Abilties, Probabiity, Internship Experience, Finance
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: The resume shortlist, I feel, was slightly unfair. They had put a cut-off of 9 for branches outside EE/CS.
Tips: Don't worry, they might not follow this next year. Your resume should have a mix of probability, finance (courses on these are enough, though internships will really help)
They don't care about your PoRs in the interview, but this may matter for the resume shortlist (Assuming it's done fairly) So be sure to include them.
Round: Test
Experience: There were 30 MCQ questions, 10 each on the above mentioned sections. There is no dearth of time, so you can think clearly and solve the question. I found that quant was the hardest of the lot, followed by coding followed by ML.
ML questions will be on SVMs, ANNs, Ensemble learning methods, Hypothesis testing, Feature selection, Model selection etc. the standard topics you can find in "Elements of Statistical Learning" by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman.
The coding section was mostly on arrays, data structures (binary tree, mostly), recursion, and one subjective question.
For quant, you need to be really well versed in probability, definite integrals (Not kidding), and other JEE math.
Tips: You'll need to do really well in atleast one of the sections to be shortlisted. Even if you are non CS/EE, (assuming you don't have experience in coding) you can do really well in ML section. Aim for that and prepare in advance. Once you are through to the interview, you just need to give them a reason to hire you. :)
Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes
Total Questions: 30
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The lady who interviewed me was a chemE graduate from IIT Bombay. She was friendly and willing to help when asked about a problem. Overall, very good interview experience.
Tips: For all interviews, I'll say this. Ask a lot of questions. They are very interested in explaining what they do, and feel free to interrupt them if you don't understand something. Always try to relate what they say to your interest. That way you'll bring new perspective into the interview. And that's very useful, believe me. If they have shortlisted you, they want to hire you. You just have to give them a reason to. Always relate your experiences and your interests with what they do. if you do that, they will find a role for you, somewhere. Do not worry. I was interested in machine learning and I got a finance profile. (They have a team in that profile that does ML)
For quant questions, I would suggest thinking out loud and interacting each step of the way. They care more about your thinking than about the answer. They will point out the errors and you can correct them. Don't worry about silences, as long as you think out loud, it will not be a problem.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Again, very friendly interview. The interviewer will lead you on, and assist you if you're facing any difficulty. :) Just be sure to be jovial and interactive.
Tips: Same as above.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Very technical, serious interview. I think he was the senior guy. He still helped out a lot.
Tips: Be to the point, he was more interested in the technical knowledge.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The final interview I had. He was very helpful, and was very eager to talk about the company and what they do. He had an extensive knowledge of finance, options (obviously). The course on Mathematical Finance by the maths department was very useful. You need to have a good knowledge of options for getting through this.
Tips: Same as the first interview.
Skills: Quant+Math, Problem Solving Abilties, Probabiity, Internship Experience, Finance
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Tell about yourself
- Q2. Grid Search problem. ML concepts.
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Logical explanation for Algorithms.
Tips: Be confident.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Tell about yourself
Tips: Tell about yourself
Skills: Machine Learning
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Logical explanation for Algorithms.
Tips: Be confident.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Tell about yourself
Tips: Tell about yourself
Skills: Machine Learning
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
3 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Draw a domino logic circuit
- Q2. How to speed up a circuit. Can voltage scaling be helpful
- Q3. Static timing analysis. Asked to write equation for a circuit with 2 flipflops with a latch in middle(latch clock has a delay from FF clock). Concept of time bo...read more
- Q4. Transistor level designs for simple logic gates
- Q5. Why Intel?
- Q6. Asked about my PoRs
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Be clear about
Tips: Static timing analysis, Transistor level implementations
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Just for formality.
Tips: Show to enthusiasm to work in Intel
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Be clear about
Tips: Static timing analysis, Transistor level implementations
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Just for formality.
Tips: Show to enthusiasm to work in Intel
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jan 2016.
1 Interview Round
Interview Questions
- Q1. Given 2 arrays one of n elements and another of n - 1 elements
Interview Preparation Tips
College Name: IIT Madras
Anonymous
posted on 2 Dec 2016
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jan 2016.
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I think almost everyone with a decent CGPA got in. Not sure about the exact criteria.
Round: Test
Duration: 1 hour
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: I think almost everyone with a decent CGPA got in. Not sure about the exact criteria.
Round: Test
Duration: 1 hour
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
4 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Given a 2d matrix with some D doors and W walls, we need fill distance matrix with minimum distance to the nearest door
- Q2. Given a read-only array we want to find kth smallest element in unordered array with O(1) space
- Q3. Design question
- Q4. Find friends of friend who already are not friends with you
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It started with an informal talk after he gave his introduction. We talked about the cyclone that was going to be there and what I did in my internship and my previous projects. Then we moved to questions. After solving both questions he asked if I had questions.
Tips: Just walk the interviewer through the solution you're proposing.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: He started with a design question with how to stream an image such that all clients see the same image at the same time. You need to take care of delays, network problems. He kept on adding new elements like compression, streaming, utc time related issues, client rendering delays and so on.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: This was bar-raiser round.
Skills: Design, Algorithms And Data Structures, Graph Theory
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: It started with an informal talk after he gave his introduction. We talked about the cyclone that was going to be there and what I did in my internship and my previous projects. Then we moved to questions. After solving both questions he asked if I had questions.
Tips: Just walk the interviewer through the solution you're proposing.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: He started with a design question with how to stream an image such that all clients see the same image at the same time. You need to take care of delays, network problems. He kept on adding new elements like compression, streaming, utc time related issues, client rendering delays and so on.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: This was bar-raiser round.
Skills: Design, Algorithms And Data Structures, Graph Theory
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Should have a good CGPA (mainly), good extra and Co-curriculars. Internships also matter. It inot a resume but rather a customized ITC form also asking questions about a range of issues.
Tips: Maintain good content about projects. Also answer the question about "Mind over Matter" well
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: A situation was given where we had to rank the characters in a given situation based on their actions
Tips: Don't just rattle out your order. Try to build a framework or atleast contribute to it. Then build consensus. Do not get flustered if you are not able to start or do not get to conclude
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: They went the entire resume. They read all the answers to the ITC form that they had asked us to fill. I tried to explain all the projects even projects not in their domain of interest and was pretty well versed in them and kept the conversation going. My panel though was brilliant and was genuinely encouraging
Tips: Be perfectly prepared from the resume and HR questions given as part of the ITC form. Technical ability and projects are valued
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Questions about why I want to join the company and whether I would actually join the company. I told them that ITC was my only choice due to my interest. Was a bit gruelling
Tips: Be sure of why you want to join the company. Be genuine, the panel want genuine answers.
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Should have a good CGPA (mainly), good extra and Co-curriculars. Internships also matter. It inot a resume but rather a customized ITC form also asking questions about a range of issues.
Tips: Maintain good content about projects. Also answer the question about "Mind over Matter" well
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: A situation was given where we had to rank the characters in a given situation based on their actions
Tips: Don't just rattle out your order. Try to build a framework or atleast contribute to it. Then build consensus. Do not get flustered if you are not able to start or do not get to conclude
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: They went the entire resume. They read all the answers to the ITC form that they had asked us to fill. I tried to explain all the projects even projects not in their domain of interest and was pretty well versed in them and kept the conversation going. My panel though was brilliant and was genuinely encouraging
Tips: Be perfectly prepared from the resume and HR questions given as part of the ITC form. Technical ability and projects are valued
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Questions about why I want to join the company and whether I would actually join the company. I told them that ITC was my only choice due to my interest. Was a bit gruelling
Tips: Be sure of why you want to join the company. Be genuine, the panel want genuine answers.
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Design facebook
- Q2. Web services?
- Q3. Load Balancing
- Q4. Algorithm and data structure questions from geeksforgeeks
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Maintain your speed of problem solving.
Tips: Maintain your speed of problem solving.
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 60
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Think logical and use some concepts from machine learning
Tips: Think logical and use some concepts from machine learning
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Show your approach
Tips: Show your approach
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Maintain your speed of problem solving.
Tips: Maintain your speed of problem solving.
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 60
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Think logical and use some concepts from machine learning
Tips: Think logical and use some concepts from machine learning
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Show your approach
Tips: Show your approach
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jan 2016.
5 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
- Q1. Finding a loop in a directed graph, find the last element in a binary tree
- Q2. On circular queue and finding the last number which is highest and contains same number. Of digits a the given numbber
- Q3. Tell me your passions and what. Is the one thing I want to know about you
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Coding round based on logic was given
Tips: Practice coding
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 3
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Coding round based on logic was given
Tips: Practice coding
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 3
College Name: IIT Madras
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