Box8 Sde1 Interview Questions and Answers

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Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: They selected 10 students from our college from CS and IT .They are looking for guys with extra projects done during college .App development will be a bonus ,contribution to open source and competitive programming will help for shortlisting.
Some of my friends had research papers published and they too got selected.

Round: Test
Experience: Have to write code snippet for 4 questions in 45 minutes
1.Difference between hour hand and minute hand
2.longest palindromic sub string.
3.Product Array puzzle
4.Some question related to matrix

Tips: All question were from geeksforgeeks
So practice it well ..u will make through it

Round: Test
Experience: Long Discussion on projects
They will scan each and every line of your Resume ,so dont write bullshits..
I wrote about interest in AI and got screwed..Discussion on college projects and final year project.
Then asked me to design a snake and ladder game OOPS concepts
Told me to find sum of all elements of sub matrix..(hint pre-processing the matrix)
Asked me about sessions and cookies
Gave a query to write on database indexing (dont remember exactly)
Asked me the code of the difference between hour hand and minute hand and extended it wid the second hand
Asked me as how to implement a dictionary
asked about TRIES ,CODE SNIPPET ON THE SHARED DOCS
One of my friend was asked to implement (set) of STL
Tips: The interviewer was cool guy..helped me a lot always made me comfortable.Interact with them as much as possible

Round: Test
Experience: Wid the CTO of the company .
Started wid the projects again .ACID properties,Database transactions,Concurrency Control
Optimization in database.
Then he asked me to code a function
Given a hash function applied on letters of English words ,un-hash it.Took me 45 minutes to reach the solution ,he helped me a lot.
Asked me to write the code for diameter of a binary tree
Asked me write the code for Boolean Matrix
One of my friend was asked to a question in which there was a bug in a m*n matrix and we have to find the bug(hint dfs or bfs)
Tips: keep calm ,,just keep talking ad he will help u a lot...

Round: HR
Experience: This was the toughest round for me...I had cleared all the rounds but they rejected me in the HR round ,,,dont know where I screwed..Learn every thing of Zomato..
They offered me an internship and thereafter they would look to give a PPO ...!!!lets see what happens

Skills: Coding Skills And Knowledge On Data Structures
Duration: 3
College Name: NIT Srinagar

General Tips: I applied through a recruiter. Then I got a call from Zomato HR. It was for LAMP developer profile. She asked me about my profile and also shared some expectations from the role. She asked me to come for F2F rounds to take the process further
Skills: Web development, JSON, Algorithm
College Name: na
Motivation: Overall process was not very tough. But they have start up culture. People work their for 11-12 hours a day. Sometimes on Saturday as well. So people who are geeks or have nothing in life to do except their job can go and join

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: Group Discussion
Experience: 06 girls and 11 boy including me were present..when we all entered in confrence hall ..Miss Pavitra (HR ) did welcome us and offred some water. Topic was mentioned on board n gave 5 min to make bullet point. GD was about to start n there are so many over excited people started the topic .Time was spending like bullet train and i was thinking what time i start bcoz no one were allowing me to speak.at point i cauhght them let start..i made bullet point about pro and cons and i was describing as much i can..
Tips: Feel free mind n be composed..neither over excitec
Duration: 30 minutes

Round: Problem Statement
Experience: Boring introduction and situation activity
Tips: Nothing..you guys are smart.

Round: Test
Experience: Simple mathematic .profit n loss..n 2 days store operation work
Tips: Nothing
Duration: 9 hours
Total Questions: 20

College Name: IHM JAIPUR