Blackbaud Interview Questions and Answers

Aptitude round consists Logical reasoning, General Aptitude, Grammar related questions etc. All are moderate level questions.

Q1. Explain OOPs w.r.t Java
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OOPs is a programming paradigm that uses objects to represent real-world entities. Java is an OOPs language.
• OOPs stands for Object-Oriented Programming System

• Java is a class-based OOPs language

• Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Abstraction are the four pillars of OOPs

• Objects have state and behavior

• Java supports interfaces, which allow for multiple inheritance

• Example: A car can be represented as an object wit...read more
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Q2. Explain about the projects that you have worked on
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Q3. Explain how Java solves machine dependency of code execution
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Java solves machine dependency by using bytecode and virtual machine.
• Java code is compiled into bytecode which is platform-independent

• The bytecode is executed by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which is platform-specific

• JVM translates bytecode into machine code for the specific platform

• This allows Java code to run on any platform with a JVM installed

• Example: A Java program compiled on Windows can run on Linux or Mac as
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Q1. Why should we hire you?
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Q2. Tell me about yourself.
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Aptitude, reasoning, English, cloud sections

2 questions in which , one has to complete within an 50 minutes

Q1. Tell me about t Yourself
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Q2. What are the previous experiences
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Numerical ability and logical reasoning followed by some coding mcqs

Q1. Print 1 to 100 without for loop
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Printing 1 to 100 without for loop
• Use recursion to print numbers from 1 to 99

• Print 100 outside the recursion

• Use a base case to stop recursion at 100
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Simple aptitude test

Q1. General questions as per your cv
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Round duration - 50 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

At the beginning of this round, the interviewer asked me about the data structures I knew. Linked lists, trees, graphs, arrays etc. was my answer. He asked me how well I knew Dynamic Programming. I said I wasn’t strong in that and he said that he would ask me a question on dynamic programming for sure.

Round duration - 40 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

The interviewer asked me if I was comfortable with the interview process so far and how the previous interviews were. I said it was good and he gave me the first problem to solve.

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

The interviewer asked me some Com­puter Sci­ence‍ fundamentals in this round as well as some behavioural questions.

Q1. Implement a Trie data structure and write functions to insert and search for a few words in it.
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Implement a Trie data structure with insert and search functions.
• Create a TrieNode class with children and isEndOfWord attributes.

• Implement insert function to add words by iterating through characters.

• Implement search function to check if a word exists by traversing the Trie.

• Example: Insert 'apple', 'banana', 'orange' and search for 'apple' and 'grape'.
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It was a basic aptitude test.

Q1. Interview was fine. Mostly asked about my final year project.
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