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Round 1 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. What lessons have you learned from your experiences in your previous company?
  • Ans. 

    I have learned the importance of effective communication, adaptability, and teamwork.

    • Effective communication is key to successful projects and relationships.

    • Adaptability is crucial in navigating changes and challenges in the workplace.

    • Teamwork is essential for achieving common goals and fostering a positive work environment.

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What are the different types of financial derivatives?
  • Ans. 

    Financial derivatives are contracts whose value is derived from the performance of an underlying asset, index, or rate.

    • Types include options, futures, forwards, and swaps

    • Options give the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an asset at a specified price before a certain date

    • Futures are agreements to buy or sell an asset at a future date for a price agreed upon today

    • Forwards are similar to futures bu...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What are corporate actions and what are their various types?
  • Ans. 

    Corporate actions are events initiated by a public company that impact its shareholders and securities.

    • Types of corporate actions include dividends, stock splits, mergers and acquisitions, rights issues, and bonus issues.

    • Dividends are payments made to shareholders from a company's profits.

    • Stock splits involve dividing existing shares into multiple shares to lower the price per share.

    • Mergers and acquisitions are when tw...

  • Answered by AI

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Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - While it is a good opportunity for freshers, experienced professionals may find the upper management to be quite toxic. For the company to grow, a change in management is necessary.

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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 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Nothing was asked in hr round there was direct interview with panel
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Swift Recon Expenses entries Derivative

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Try to avoid Clearwater analytics
It doesn't give you peace of mind neither security

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Q1. Last process explain the work flow
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Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Oct 2022. 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 - Aptitude Test 

Basic aptitude questions were asked

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions regarding capital markets, derivatives were asked.

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Q1. What is derrivatives? What isTLC? What is hedge funds?
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I was interviewed in Dec 2020.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

(1 Question)

Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Total of 8 questions:

4 MCQ(oops and expected output type questions) + other 2 were coding questions, out of which one is some class implementation question.

  • Q1. 

    Count Subarrays with Sum Divisible by K

    Given an array ARR and an integer K, your task is to count all subarrays whose sum is divisible by the given integer K.

    Input:

    The first line of input contains an...
  • Ans. 

    Count subarrays with sum divisible by K in an array.

    • Iterate through the array and keep track of the running sum modulo K.

    • Use a hashmap to store the frequency of remainders.

    • For each prefix sum, check how many previous prefix sums have the same remainder.

    • Return the total count of subarrays with sum divisible by K.

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Video Call 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This round was with the USA team, the panel consisted of 2 members. It took place at around 9 PM IST. The interviewer's focus was on approach.

  • Q1. 

    Sort an Array in Wave Form

    You are given an unsorted array ARR. Your task is to sort it so that it forms a wave-like array.

    Input:

    The first line contains an integer 'T', the number of test cases.
    For ea...
  • Ans. 

    Sort an array in a wave-like pattern where each element is greater than or equal to its adjacent elements.

    • Iterate through the array and swap elements at even indices with their adjacent odd indices to form a wave pattern.

    • There can be multiple valid wave arrays, so any valid wave array is acceptable.

    • Ensure the first element is greater than or equal to the second element to start the wave pattern.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 

    Convert a Number to Words

    Given an integer number num, your task is to convert 'num' into its corresponding word representation.

    Input:

    The first line of input contains an integer ‘T’ denoting the number o...
  • Ans. 

    Convert a given integer number into its corresponding word representation.

    • Implement a function that takes an integer as input and returns the word representation of that number.

    • Break down the number into its individual digits and convert each digit into its word form.

    • Handle special cases like numbers between 10 and 19, and multiples of 10.

    • Combine the word forms of individual digits to form the final word representation

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - Video Call 

(1 Question)

Round duration - 40 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was a managerial round. The position of the person taking the interview was of a technical architect. As was informed by the recruiter, previously he was a technical architect at Amazon.

  • Q1. How does Facebook store comments in its database?
  • Ans. 

    Facebook stores comments in its database using a combination of relational and non-relational databases.

    • Comments are typically stored in a relational database like MySQL for structured data storage.

    • For scalability and performance, Facebook may also use a NoSQL database like Cassandra or HBase for storing comments in a denormalized format.

    • Metadata related to comments such as likes, timestamps, and user information may b...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI applied for the job as Software Developer in NoidaEligibility criteriaShortlisting was done on the basis of coding test.Clearwater Analytics interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithm Design, DBMS, Object Oriented Design, Machine LearningTime required to prepare for the interview - 2 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Practice the most frequent and most common questions DSA questions asked in companies like Amazon, Microsoft.
Tip 2 : Focus on solving the questions on your own as much as you can. 
Tip 3 : Don't waste your time on the number of questions while compromising quality.
Tip 4 : Do mock interviews with your friend if it's been a long since you have given the interview.
Tip 5 : For virtual interviews, always have a backup of data(you may use mobile data if Wi-Fi goes out). While during an interview try to maintain eye contact every now and then.
Tip 6 : Keep your resume short to 1 page and have far/good knowledge of the tech stack you have mentioned

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Keep it short to 1 page
Tip 2 : Prepare it well.
Tip 3 : Focus more on the problem and the solution. Rather than tools used to solve the problem

Final outcome of the interviewRejected

Skills evaluated in this interview

Software Developer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Maximum Subarray Sum Problem Statement Given an array of integers, determine the maximum possible sum of any contiguous subarray within the array. Example: Input: array = [34, -50, 42, 14, -5, 86] Output: 137 Explanation: The maximum sum is... read more
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 Process Specialist SME

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I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Apr 2021. 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 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is bond? Type? Rating type
  • Ans. 

    A bond is a debt security that pays interest to the bondholder. It can be of different types and ratings.

    • Bonds are issued by corporations, municipalities, and governments to raise capital.

    • Types of bonds include corporate bonds, municipal bonds, and government bonds.

    • Bond ratings are given by credit rating agencies like Moody's and S&P to indicate the creditworthiness of the issuer.

    • Bond ratings range from AAA (highest) t

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What is paydown , factor, income, dividend, corporate action, fixed income
  • Ans. 

    Paydown, factor, income, dividend, corporate action, fixed income are terms related to finance and investments.

    • Paydown refers to the reduction of debt by making payments on a loan or bond.

    • Factor is the amount by which a company's earnings are expected to grow in the future.

    • Income is the money earned from investments or employment.

    • Dividend is a portion of a company's profits paid out to shareholders.

    • Corporate action ref...

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Its clients round and they can ask you about recon or implementation related questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare fixed income products and its type.
Data flow and accounts setups

Implementation Analyst Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. If you have worked upon workflows for any tool . Then it will an advantage for you as they have asked questions about configure fields and values on any tool and most important workflow
View answer (1)

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before May 2021. 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.
View all tips
Round 2 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Work experience and past experience
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. What is Bond , Type , Rating ? What is Corporate action , type ? What is Coupon and Paydown ? What is Paydown factor and why its Important ? What is Derivative , Type ? Pricing ?
  • Ans. 

    Explanation of financial terms related to bonds, corporate actions, coupons, paydowns, derivatives, and pricing.

    • Bond: a debt security issued by a company or government

    • Type: the specific characteristics of a bond, such as maturity date or interest rate

    • Rating: a measure of the creditworthiness of a bond issuer

    • Corporate action: an event that affects a company's securities, such as a merger or dividend

    • Coupon: the interest ...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare Capital Market , Money Market in detail

Implementation Analyst Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. If you have worked upon workflows for any tool . Then it will an advantage for you as they have asked questions about configure fields and values on any tool and most important workflow
View answer (1)

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before May 2021. 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.
View all tips
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. What is bond, type , rating? What is paydown , factor , credits rating? What is swap, income , corporate action and its type
  • Ans. 

    Bond, paydown, factor, credit rating, swap, income, corporate action and its type are all financial terms.

    • Bond is a debt security that pays interest to the investor.

    • Paydown is the reduction of the outstanding principal amount of a loan.

    • Factor is the percentage of the original principal amount of a loan that remains outstanding.

    • Credit rating is an assessment of the creditworthiness of a borrower.

    • Swap is a financial cont...

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Situational questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well capital market, money market,

Implementation Analyst Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. If you have worked upon workflows for any tool . Then it will an advantage for you as they have asked questions about configure fields and values on any tool and most important workflow
View answer (1)

Interview questions from similar companies

I applied via Recruitment Consultant and was interviewed before Jul 2020. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. DS Algo Questions on Trees. Leadership Principles

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Read up on DS Algo and white paper coding and Leadership Principles

I was interviewed before Sep 2020.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Round 2 - Face to Face 

Round duration - 50 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Round 3 - Face to Face 

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 4 - Face to Face 

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 5 - Face to Face 

(1 Question)

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.
  • Ans. 

    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'.

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI applied for the job as SDE - 1 in HyderabadEligibility criteria 7 CGPA Amazon interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures and Algorithms, Operating System, Database Management System, Object-Oriented Programming SystemTime required to prepare for the interview - 8 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Do lot of hard work and practice of  Data Structures and Algorithms based questions. I personally recommend you Coding Ninjas and Geeks For Geeks for interview preparation.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Make your resume short and try to make it of one page only and do mention all your skills which you are confident of in your resume.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

I was interviewed in Aug 2017.

Interview Questionnaire 

7 Questions

  • Q1. Implement Merge Sort.
  • Ans. 

    Merge Sort is a divide and conquer algorithm that sorts an array by dividing it into two halves, sorting them separately, and then merging the sorted halves.

    • Divide the array into two halves

    • Recursively sort the two halves

    • Merge the sorted halves

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Given a BST containing distinct integers, and a number ‘X’, find all pairs of integers in the BST whose sum is equal to ‘X’.
  • Ans. 

    Find pairs of integers in a BST whose sum is equal to a given number.

    • Traverse the BST and store the values in a hash set.

    • For each node, check if (X - node.value) exists in the hash set.

    • If yes, add the pair (node.value, X - node.value) to the result.

    • Continue traversal until all nodes are processed.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Given a set of time intervals in any order, merge all overlapping intervals into one and output the result which should have only mutually exclusive intervals.
  • Ans. 

    Merge overlapping time intervals into mutually exclusive intervals.

    • Sort the intervals based on their start time.

    • Iterate through the intervals and merge overlapping intervals.

    • Output the mutually exclusive intervals.

    • Example: [(1,3), (2,6), (8,10), (15,18)] -> [(1,6), (8,10), (15,18)]

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. What are the different types of hashing? Suggest an alternative and a better way for Linear Chaining.
  • Ans. 

    Different types of hashing and alternative for Linear Chaining

    • Different types of hashing include division, multiplication, and universal hashing

    • Alternative for Linear Chaining is Open Addressing

    • Open Addressing includes Linear Probing, Quadratic Probing, and Double Hashing

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. Implement AVL Tree.
  • Ans. 

    An AVL tree is a self-balancing binary search tree where the heights of the left and right subtrees differ by at most one.

    • AVL tree is a binary search tree with additional balance factor for each node.

    • The balance factor is the difference between the heights of the left and right subtrees.

    • Insertion and deletion operations in AVL tree maintain the balance factor to ensure the tree remains balanced.

    • Rotations are performed ...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q6. Minimum number of squares whose sum equals to given number n.
  • Ans. 

    Find the minimum number of squares whose sum equals to a given number n.

    • Use dynamic programming to solve the problem efficiently.

    • Start with finding the square root of n and check if it is a perfect square.

    • If not, then try to find the minimum number of squares required for the remaining number.

    • Repeat the process until the remaining number becomes 0.

    • Return the minimum number of squares required for the given number n.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q7. Insertion sort for a singly linked list.
  • Ans. 

    Insertion sort for a singly linked list.

    • Traverse the list and compare each node with the previous nodes

    • If the current node is smaller, swap it with the previous node

    • Repeat until the end of the list is reached

    • Time complexity is O(n^2)

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: There were 2 coding questions (no penalty for wrong submission) and 20 Multiple Choice Questions(with negative marking). We were given 90 minutes to solve them. MCQs were based on Data Structures, OS, CN, C outputs, OOP etc.
Tips: Experience in Competitive Programming might help in solving coding questions. No constraints were mentioned and detailed Instructions related to problem were stated vaguely. So code carefully.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 22

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The interviewer asked me to introduce myself and a brief introduction of the projects that I have done. She first asked me questions related to my project. After that she moved on to the data structures part.
Tips: Take your time to approach the problems and if the question is not clear ask the interviewer to explain it again.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The interviewer asked me about how my previous round went. After that, he asked me to introduce myself and a brief introduction of the projects that I have done. He first asked me a few questions related to my project. Then he moved on to the data structures part. In this round the interviewer gave me strict time limit for coding the solution on paper for each problem and as soon as I was done coding he gave me 2-3 minutes every time to find errors and debug my code.
Tips: Do not panic even if the interviewer sets time limit while solving problems. If the question is not clear ask the interviewer to explain it again.

College Name: The LNM Institute Of Information Technology, Jaipur

Skills evaluated in this interview

Clearwater Analytics Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Clearwater Analytics interview for experienced candidates?
Clearwater Analytics interview process for experienced candidates usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Clearwater Analytics interview process for experienced candidates are Resume Shortlist, HR and Technical.
How to prepare for Clearwater Analytics interview for experienced candidates?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Clearwater Analytics. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Clearwater Analytics expect are Java, Javascript, Data Structures, Software Development and Reconciliation.
What are the top questions asked in Clearwater Analytics interview for experienced candidates?

Some of the top questions asked at the Clearwater Analytics interview for experienced candidates -

  1. What is bond, type , rating? What is paydown , factor , credits rating? What is...read more
  2. What is Bond , Type , Rating ? What is Corporate action , type ? What is Coupon...read more
  3. What is paydown , factor, income, dividend, corporate action, fixed inc...read more

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