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Alation Software Development Engineer II Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 3 Dec 2024

Alation Software Development Engineer II Interview Experiences

1 interview found

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Dec 2023. There were 7 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Link for an Hacker rank test provided with a mix of Medium & Hard Leetcode style problems

Round 2 - Assignment 

Full-Stack Application assignment was provided

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Frontend Related Questions
Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Backend Related Questions
Round 5 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. System Design Fundamentals
Round 6 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. About your role in current projects
Round 7 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Explained About Company Culture and Company roles and about Manager

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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. LLD Round - Notification system
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Question around priority queue
  • Q2. Decode strings leetcode
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. System design questions scenario based
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions on multidimensional tree
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

2 Leetcode Medium questions on hackerrank

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Kadane algorithm based question
  • Q2. Leetcode medium
  • Q3. Resume based questions
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Probability question math problem
  • Q2. Puzzle to solve
  • Q3. AI based question
  • Q4. 1 question to solve Leetcode medium

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be strong with DSA and communication skill
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I was interviewed before Jan 2024.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. OOPs related questions.
  • Q2. Joins, Indexes and some problems to write sql queries.
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Oct 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Promises in javascript
  • Ans. 

    Promises in JavaScript are objects representing the eventual completion or failure of an asynchronous operation.

    • Promises are used to handle asynchronous operations in JavaScript.

    • They can be in one of three states: pending, fulfilled, or rejected.

    • Promises can be chained using .then() to handle success and .catch() to handle errors.

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

2 Query question and 3 coding questions

Round 2 - Technical 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Basic oops , Java script and Networking questions.
  • Q2. What is object orienteered programming.
  • Ans. 

    Object oriented programming is a programming paradigm based on the concept of objects, which can contain data and code.

    • Objects are instances of classes, which define the structure and behavior of the objects.

    • Encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism are key principles of object oriented programming.

    • Example: Java, C++, Python are popular languages that support object oriented programming.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Different Events in java script
  • Ans. 

    Events in JavaScript are actions or occurrences that happen in the browser that the code can respond to.

    • Events can be triggered by user actions (like clicking a button), browser actions (like page load), or system events (like a timer expiring)

    • Event listeners are used to listen for and respond to events

    • Common events include click, mouseover, keydown, submit, etc.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. Event listeners
Round 3 - Coding Test 

Project , coding question, DBMS

Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic personal details

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

2 DSA questions Both are from DP

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. 2 Questions , 1 is DSA
  • Q2. Second question is Puzzle

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Practise DSA more and give more and more interviews.
Interview experience
1
Bad
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Pointless basic questions is what they asked
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. They had this round for hours together

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Kindly do not attend interview at Pando. They make the interview process long and tedious. They had less budget despite knowing that they wasted my time and efforts on the whole the company is not well structured and their HR team is very poor. They are a typical unstructured startup company with poor work ethics and culture.
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Jan 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Mimic Dataframe Merge
  • Ans. 

    Implement a function to mimic the functionality of merging two DataFrames in Python.

    • Create a function that takes two DataFrames as input.

    • Merge the two DataFrames based on a common column or index.

    • Handle different types of joins like inner, outer, left, and right joins.

    • Return the merged DataFrame as output.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Improve above case by case
Round 2 - Coding Test 

1 hour - Find longest palindromic substring

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