Agoda Specialist Interview Questions and Answers

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: They were mainly looking for people who has or worked in Start ups or who has some good PORs. They also shortlisted students with CGPA of more than 7.5.
Tips: Try taking good PORs and maintain a healthy CGPA. Make a one page resume.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was good. This was my first interview, I was bit nurvous for obvious reasons but controlled my emotions perfectly. As interview progressed things started becoming normal.
Tips: Be confidant of what ever you speak. Try hidding you nervousness, its okay if you are not able to answer any question but make strong comeback in next.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: I was very confidant of myself and told some 8-9 qualities that I have and gave examples of where I used them in past.
Tips: Again be very confidant. Its okay if you fumble in between but make strong comeback. look into the eyes of interviewer it shows you are confidant. Don't lie, be yourself.

General Tips: Keep working hard, there is no subsitute of hardwork, even in IITs. And don't forget sometimes you have to loose small battels to win Wars.
All the best:)
Skills:
Duration: 8-10weeks
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: Oyo is progressing very fast and I wanted to be the part of there amazing journey.
Funny Moments: I kept looking into the eyes of both of my interviewer just to show them I was very confidant but the reality is I was very nervous and I was bluffing them:). After interview I had a headache.

Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: basic Guesstimation questtions,
for eg. estimate the no of sleeping all over the world right now.

Tips: Walk the interviewer through your thinking process.
donot make vague guesses.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: 1 Tell us 5 reasons why we should hire you.
2 being an electrical engineering student, why have you applied for a analytic s/operations job profile.

Skills: Ability To Cope Up With Stress, Guesstimation Cases
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Experience: 1. Rotate a matrix by 90 degrees clockwise.( He asked me have you heard of question.I said Yes.Then he asked me to code)2. Find vertical sum of nodes present in same vertical line in binary tree. ( He again asked me have you heard of question. I have heard it but didn’t remember the approach. It took some time and then I started telling my approach.He aasked me to write code and question regarding get sums from left to right , for which I made use of linked hashmap)
Overall It was very cool for me
Total Questions: 2

Round: Test
Experience: 1.Reverse K blocks of nodes in linked list.There are two interviewers this time, probably, guy was senior he was asking me question.He was very particular in coding. Checked every edge case.and asked me evrything.Initially I told the approach and then started coding.2.Find min in stack in O(1)Pretty straightforward written code.Again he checked all edge cases with my code.3. Then asked about counting sort and its code.4. And a simple question on array sorting.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: I thought this was last round as they have said like.She asked me about my strengths and challenges I faced.How I overcame through it1.Basic question on oops concepts.(runtime polymorphism).
2.Design tables for getting all employees under manager. I screwed it little bit.But some how I got answer which I was not satisfied as well.I was expecting result either yes/no.But they called me for another round of interview may be because of my expected salary which was high compared to my previous.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 1.Given “aaabbbccc” it should return “a3b3c3″ in place. Initially I explained brute force approach then he said array has 2n space.I was able to remember approach for quicksort and started explaining after which I grew confident on it.He was satisfied.Questions on time complexity of algo and space complexity discussions.2.Again a question on OOPs.This time I was completely wrong in answering it.I thought interview with yatra was closing for me.He was not satisified much with this.Luckily, there was another round with manager.

Round: Other Interview
Experience: 1.He asked me to find words which are having particular pattern.Then I said it was KMP algo. Can I explain it ?? I started explaining approach, may be he was busy with something, he asked me to write pseudo code.He left the room for 15 mins then he came back I had almost completed the code, which he was satisified.Some basic questions on spring ( my previous work was related to it). Then my expected salary and my position If I got selected in yatra were discussed.

College Name: NA

General Tips: Focus on Data structures.
Skills: GIT, Css, HTML, JavaScript, Communication
Duration: <1 week

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well before interview, be free and be yourself don't pretend to be a smart one just keep your confidence and answer all the questions, if you don't know the answer then please let them know.

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be prepared if you want to join in yatra