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Ciena Software Engineer Intern Trainee Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 1 Apr 2024

Ciena Software Engineer Intern Trainee Interview Experiences

1 interview found

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Apr 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Basic apti question asked 45 quest in 60 min

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Oops, Multithreading, C++ and DSA
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic intro and company talks

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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
6-8 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Apr 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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.
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Round 2 - Coding Test 

Conducted on SHL, typical AMCAT test. 7 Automata Fix, 2 Automata. Before Coding Technical, Aptitude and English MCQs.

Round 3 - Technical 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. What language you prefer? OOPS in your preferred langauage.
  • Ans. 

    I prefer Java for its strong OOP principles and widespread use in industry.

    • Java is my preferred language for its object-oriented programming capabilities.

    • I appreciate Java's encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism features.

    • Examples of OOP in Java include creating classes, objects, and implementing interfaces.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Machine Learning Fundamentals and Advance Topics.
  • Q3. Coding Question by Screen Sharing on Linked List (Medium)
  • Q4. Reverse a Linked List
  • Ans. 

    Reverse a Linked List by changing the pointers direction

    • Start with three pointers: current, prev, and next

    • Iterate through the linked list, updating the pointers to reverse the direction

    • Return the new head of the reversed linked list

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. Check Palindrome in a Linked List
  • Ans. 

    Check if a linked list is a palindrome by comparing the values from both ends.

    • Traverse the linked list to find the middle node using slow and fast pointers.

    • Reverse the second half of the linked list.

    • Compare the values of the first half with the reversed second half to check for palindrome.

    • Example: 1->2->3->2->1 is a palindrome.

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be ready for everything you wrote on your Resume and be sure about everything as the interviewer might try to confuse you.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
-

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Nov 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Sql related ques mege into, rank,dense rank,queries of joins etc.
  • Q2. Java 8 related ques optional and stream
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
-
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Oct 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

1st round some apt qns,some prgramming qns are they asked

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. C depth concepts and some prgram
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Some DSA questions they asked
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
-
Result
No response

I applied via Campus Placement

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Easy-medium level and it included two coding questions and some technical questions

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. How are structures and classes stored?
  • Ans. 

    Structures and classes are stored in memory as a combination of data members and member functions.

    • Structures and classes are stored in memory as a combination of data members and member functions.

    • Data members of a structure or class are stored in contiguous memory locations.

    • Member functions of a class are stored separately in memory and are shared among all instances of the class.

    • Pointers to member functions are used t...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What is final and finalize?
  • Ans. 

    final is a keyword in Java used to restrict inheritance, overriding, and modification. finalize is a method used for cleanup operations before an object is garbage collected.

    • final keyword is used to declare constants, prevent inheritance by marking a class as final, and prevent method overriding by marking a method as final

    • finalize method is called by the garbage collector before an object is destroyed

    • Example: final in...

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

Basi aptitude and coding mcq

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. What is hashmap
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Had to create a linked list without using any collections

Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

IQ type test, included patterns, sequences, mental arithmetic

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. General interview, why BT, why software, career aspirations
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Questions were asked

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Dsa dp, graphs and many more questions from arrays and linked list were asked

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - No
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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.
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Round 2 - Coding Test 

60 Minutes, Mostly DSA c# and platform used was HackerRank

Round 3 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. It was a virtual interview mostly preferred content is DSA, space and time complexity and software development
  • Q2. They'll give us a scenario and ask us to write code accordingly.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - DSA is must
Be attentive
Don't get confused
Take time to think and then answer the question
If you're not familiar with the question just say 'I don't know' dont try to turnaround things

I applied via Referral

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Properly align and format text in your resume. A recruiter will have to spend more time reading poorly aligned text, leading to high chances of rejection.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. About coding and all oops concept SQL, unix
  • Q2. Unix, sql, language and oops concepts questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - prepare yourself for aptitute test and some language

Ciena Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Ciena Software Engineer Intern Trainee interview?
Ciena interview process usually has 3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Ciena interview process are Aptitude Test, Technical and HR.

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