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Updated 21 Mar 2022

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user image CodingNinjas

posted on 21 Mar 2022

I was interviewed before Mar 2021.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

2 coding question both and 15 MCQ

Only C , Java , Python are allowed

  • Q1. Minimum steps to reach target by a Knight You have been given a square chessboard of size ‘N x N’. The position coordinates of the Knight and the position coord...read more
  • Q2. Maximum Size Rectangle Sub-matrix With All 1's You are given an 'N' * 'M' sized binary-valued matrix 'MAT, where 'N' is the number o...read more
2

Video Call Round (6 Questions)

Round duration - 45 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Around 6 am morning
2 interviewers

  • Q1. Reverse Linked List You are given a Singly Linked List of integers. You need to reverse the Linked List by changing the links between nodes. Input Format : The ...read more
  • Q2. OS Question

    Synchronization in Operating System in detail

  • Q3. Networking Question

    Osi model with example at each layer transfer

  • Q4. Networking Question

    What is NAT router?

  • Q5. Technical Question

    How do beat Google if u want to make a search engine?

  • Q6. Puzzle

    Total water in earth ?

3

Video Call Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Manager Round

  • Q1. Puzzle

    It was all on my master's thesis

4

HR Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 10 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Salary breakdown and Location preference

  • Q1. Basic HR Question

    Are u satisfied with the salary breakup?

  • Q2. Basic HR Question

    Location preferences: banglore, chennai, Pune

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaNoneCisco interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Computer Network Gate CS Level, Operating System college Level, Array and Linked List, Dynamic Programming, DFS and BFSTime required to prepare for the interview - 3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Computer Network should be strong
Tip 2 : Exposure to system programming also helps
Tip 3 : At least 150 problems and C++ was not allowed so prepare accordingly

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Project should be really good
Tip 2 : Write Computer Network and Operating System Courses in resume as course taken

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

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Interview experience
1
 Bad
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 -

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Mar 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Behavioral Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Why we should not hire you.
  • Q2. Past experiences

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Complete waste of time. I had this managerial round after clearing 2 round of detailed interviews, both with Indian and US resources. Most of their questions made no sense. Budget is feeble, but a candidate is being examined from all perspectives of his past professional life and mistakes.
Interview experience
1
 Bad
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

3 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

Average e e e e e

2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Qa basic questions
3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary expectation

Sde1 Interview Questions

WatchGuard Technologies user image Nishant Bansal

posted on 29 Nov 2022

3 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.
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2

Coding Test Round

30 mcq's OF coding and 30 mcq's of apti

3

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Oops,computer networks
  • Q2. 4 pillars of oops , tcp ip model ,osi model

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - stick to the basics, and work on your programming skills

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 Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering, Pimpri and was interviewed before May 2023.

1 Interview Round

1

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. I was Interviewed for Intern position. Question was, - Brief about project that I had done - some basic c++ bug detection - Why you want to work in hardware and...read more
  • Q2. Tellme about yourself

Sdet Interview Questions

Nvidia user image Anonymous

posted on 27 May 2024

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

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before May 2023.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

C, C++, OS, aptitute test, OS concepts

2

Technical Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. C, C++ data structures
  • Q2. Concept of pointers,double pointers
  • Q3. Lists, data structures, coding mcqs
3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Are you planning to do Masters?

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