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Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via campus placement at Motilal Nehru Institute National Institute of Technology (NIT), Allahabad and was interviewed in Dec 2023.

5 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

It was a MCQ type round with 3 coding questions. This round consisted of questions from aptitude, SQL knowledge and a sql command writing question, Programming basics, Web Technology, 2 coding questions. CS Subjects and some Situational based questions.

2

Group Discussion Round

It was a Just a minute round in which a topic was given by the interviewer to speak upon.

3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. What all technologies you feel will be fruitful in learning with regards to your future growth?
4

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Explain NOSQL databases and their working?
5

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Describe the working of your projects and how did you manage with hectic load of your curriculum being a part of your project building which is from some other ...read more

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just be thorough with whatever is mentioned in your resume and be confident in answering the question. If you are not sure about the answer don’t give it a try it may have a negative impact. Also you should have an in-depth knowledge of your projects.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 More than 8 weeks
Result
 No response

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Apr 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Find the greatest element in the moving array

2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Interviewer Asked me to build Airline Management System
Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

A simple coding problem given related to the project.

2

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. HR asked general question like strength and weakness.
Interview experience
2
 Poor
Difficulty level
 Hard
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Sep 2023.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

Basic quant topics and a technical question

2

Group Discussion Round

GD is about 10 mins and it is pretty easy

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well for quants and hands on in any one programing language

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - You should have good communication skills.
Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via campus placement at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Khurda and was interviewed before Oct 2022.

5 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
2

Aptitude Test Round

Reasoning, maths and clocks based questions.

3

Coding Test Round

2 codings. DSA based.

4

Technical Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. What are OOPs Concepts?
  • Q2. What is AVL tree?
  • Q3. Define LIFO, FIFO etc
  • Q4. Share your college experienceon coding.
5

HR Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Introduce yourself (3 mins)
  • Q2. Area of Interests (3 mins)

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just practice for Coding and English. Rest your luck matters.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via campus placement at VNR Vignan Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad and was interviewed before Jul 2023.

1 Interview Round

1

Coding Test Round

MCQS on Java, HTML, CSS, DSA, JS and OS. Platform was Hackerrank.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare from GFG

I applied via campus placement at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore and was interviewed before Sep 2020.

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - - You should have strong knowledge on class and object and Java.
- Having knowledge of frameworks like Hibernate and Spring Boot is a plus.

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Nov 2021.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Don’t add your photo or details such as gender, age, and address in your resume. These details do not add any value.
View all tips
2

Aptitude Test Round

Basic conceptual knowledge check.

3

Coding Test Round

One basic and one intermediate level question you are allowed to give write the code in any language.

4

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. This is an AI based interview where on the screen flashes the question and you will have to answer them looking into the camera always camera will be on.

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Ernst & Young Associate Software Engineer interview:
  • Java
  • ds algo
  • Python
  • SQL
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - For the interview round just go with the flow and have a practice on the basic questions of the interview and be fluent in English.

I was interviewed in Apr 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Video Call Round (7 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round had 2 coding questions where in I was first asked to explain my approach and then code the solution . After
that , I was asked some more questions on OOPS and JavaScript.

  • Q1. Intersection of Linked List You are given two Singly Linked List of integers, which are merging at some node of a third linked list. Your task is to find the da...read more
  • Q2. Pythagorean Triplets You are given an array of n integers (a1, a2,....,an), you need to find if the array contains a pythagorean triplet or not. An array is sai...read more
  • Q3. OOPS Question

    What do you mean by data encapsulation?

  • Q4. OOPS Question

    Can the static methods be overridden?

  • Q5. Java Question

    What is Garbage collector in JAVA?

  • Q6. Javascript Question

    Explain Hoisting in JavaScript.

  • Q7. JavaScript Question

    What are closures?

2

Video Call Round (7 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round was mainly inclined towards some Frontend Web Development questions(as I had told the interviewer that I have some prior experince in that field and also have some projects supporting this) ranging from HTML,CSS to JavaScript.

  • Q1. JavaScript Question

    Explain promises and it's 3 states .

  • Q2. JavaScript Question

    What is a higher order function?

  • Q3. Swap Two Numbers Take two numbers as input and swap them and print the swapped values. Input Format: The first line of input contains a single integer 't...read more
  • Q4. HTML Question

    What are the features of HTML-5?

  • Q5. HTML Question

    How to optimize website assets loading?

  • Q6. CSS Question

    In how many ways you can display HTML elements?

  • Q7. CSS Question

    What is a z-index, how does it function?

3

HR Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This was a typical HR round with some standard Behavioral questions like my interests, weaknesses, strengths, family
background, are you willing to relocate or travel , why Ernst & Young, CEO of Ernst & Young etc.

  • Q1. Basic HR Question

    Why should we hire you ?

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPAErnst & Young (EY) interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Aptitude, OOPSTime required to prepare for the interview - 4 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.
Tip 3 : Do at-least 2 good projects and you must know every bit of them.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

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