Young Men Christian Association (YMCA)
What if you can't knock at your Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) seniors' door for advice? Read their placement interview questions and crack your next interview. 🏆
Young Men Christian Association (YMCA)
What if you can't knock at your Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) seniors' door for advice? Read their placement interview questions and crack your next interview. 🏆
I was interviewed in May 2021.
Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy
This round consisted of DSA questions and they were looking for good coding practices.
Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy
This round consisted of React related questions, javascript questions.
Tip 1 : Write Production ready code in during the interview
Tip 2 : Study about subjects well.
Tip 1 : Have good explanations of projects.
Tip 2 : Mention about problem solving skills.
I was interviewed in Dec 2020.
Round duration - 180 Minutes
Round difficulty - Hard
This was an online technical round on the SHL platform. The link of the test was shared to us around 3 PM.
There were 4 sections and each section had limited time. You can NOT go back to the question you have already attempted.
The webCam was not on.
Section 1: Automata/ Debugging
Section 2: Coding
Section 3: Amazon Principles/Personality Based
Section 4: Aptitude/Verbal
Round duration - 50 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy
Time: 9 am to 10 am
Mode of Interview: Amazon Chime Video
LiveCode: To write code, it was not a compiler.
The interviewer was very nice.
Round duration - 50 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
Time: 3 pm to 4 pm
Mode of Interview: Amazon Chime Video
LiveCode: To write code, it was not a compiler
The interviewer was time adamant and not very supportive. A shadow interviewer was also there.
Tip 1 : Practice different and quality questions from LeetCode, Interviewbit.
Tip 2 : Prepare subjects like OS, OOPS, DBMS.
Tip 1 : Keep it short and attractive.
Tip 2 : Be confident about everything you write in your resume.
I was interviewed before Mar 2021.
Round duration - 45 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
it was 5:00 PM, Interviewer was very friendly and was a senior person. He asked some medium level SQL Queries. Also asked what are the various DML, DDL commands.
Tip 1 : Try leetcode medium questions of every topic (100 questions each topic)
Tip 2 : Try to explain the approach before writing the code and be sure about the time and space complexity’s
Tip 3 : Do not confuse with the projects you have mentioned be prepared for the questions related to technology stack and motivation behind the project.
Tip 1 : One page resume, with project explained properly
Tip 2 : Include your coding profiles as a link* and it is not necessary to write 10th and 12th percentage or school
I was interviewed in Nov 2020.
Round duration - 50 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
This was the only technical round held for shortlisted students. Students were divided in multiple batches and each batch was interviewed by a panel of one Technical and one HR interviewer. This round was scheduled on Samsung's internal video conferencing platform which was accessible through windows machine only. This round was based on data structures, algorithms and computer science subject's questions. My interview was scheduled at 2:00pm. Interviewers were very friendly and overall environment was positive.
Round duration - 10 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy
In this round, basic HR questions were asked. Questions were behavioural and very easy to answer. It happened via a telephonic call and lasted approximately 10 minutes.
Tip 1 : Practice a lot of programming problems. Participate in competitive programming contests.
Tip 2 : Make sure you have your computer science fundamentals very clear and maintain a decent CGPA.
Tip 3 : Do couple of real problem solving projects.
Tip 1 : Maintain a precise and self speaking one page resume.
Tip 2 : Avoid adding non-technical achievements (eg. 1st position in dancing, singing competition etc.)
I was interviewed in Oct 2020.
Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy
Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy
Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy
Tip 1 : Mention 1 project at least in your resume which is done by you . Never mention a project copied from google.
Tip 2 : Prepare for basic of OOPS and Operating System.
Tip 3 : You have to some Knowledge of System design .
Tip 4 : never give wrong answer if you don't know the answer simply say it to interviewr.
Tip 1 : Never add fake information related to project and other stuff.
Tip 2 : Keep resume simple do not add unnecessary info like you ranked 1st in 5th class.
I was interviewed before Sep 2020.
Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
1 hour online interview.
Slot was given prior via email.
The HR contacted me via email and simultaneously provided me a link where I had to write the codes during my interview
Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy
This was a one hour round in which I was first told to introduce myself and then moved to questions.
Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
This was based more on my communication skills rather than my technical skills. The interviewer didn't only focus on whether I knew the answer or not but if I was able to communicate my knowledge to the interviewer.
It was more of theory based interview
Questions are as follows:-
1. What are SQL and acid properties?
2. How does a website start?
3. What are deadlocks with real life examples? Give necessary conditions for deadlock.
-> Real life examples were must.
4. What is virtual function?
5. Tell me the most challenging this while you made your project. ( I had to pick my project on my own)
6. Tell me the most interesting feature you found working on a language.
7. Technical question on structures in C as I used it in my project. The interviewer asked if the structure for a linked list is changed as:-
struct node
{
int data;
struct next;
};
I explained how this won't work as struct will be created again and again which will lead to memory limit exceeded.
Tip 1 : Listen carefully to what the interviewer expects from you.
Tip 2 : Practice at least 300 questions, topic wise.
Tip 3 : Do participate in contests.
Tip 1 : Be true on your resume.
Tip 2 : Make your resume crisp and clear.
I was interviewed before Sep 2020.
Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
Round duration - 40 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
Round duration - 40 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
Tip 1 : Prepare application part of topics like graph other than the general questions.
Tip 2 : Prefer Leetcode for solving questions.
Tip 3 : Practice as many questions as possible from topic arrays.
Tip 1 : Add stuff you really have good knowledge about.
Tip 2 : Use the point-wise format for filling any area (eg: Brief explanation of projects).
I was interviewed before Sep 2020.
Round duration - 90 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy
The round was scheduled at 10 AM on 2nd August, 2019, But it started a little late due to some issues in Lab devices. The test started in a full screen mode and no one was allowed to exit full screen mode.
Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
It was a F2F interview. The interviewer was very friendly and was working as an SDE II in Consumers team. He started with quick intro of himself and then asked mine. Then jumped into coding question. He was monitoring my every single activity throughout the interview and told me ignore whenever I type something on my laptop.
Round duration - 75 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
It was a F2F interview. The interviewer was very friendly and was working as an SDE III in Payments team. He started with quick intro of himself and then asked mine. He asked me about the project I mentioned in my resume and some questions regarding the project. Then jumped into coding question. He was monitoring my every single activity throughout the interview.
Tip 1 : Understand the concept for any algorithm you are studying, focus on how things are working even in single line of code, if you do that number of questions doesn't matter.
Tip 2 : Don't get confuse while choosing which online platform is good and which one is bad, Every platform has enough resources to crack any interview. Just make sure you completely finish atleast one platform. If you like CP then start practicing on SPOJ/Codeforces/TopCoder/CodeChef.
Tip 1 : Be confident about every single word written in your resume.
Tip 2 : Make sure your resume is of 1 page only.