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Assistant System Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

Ishu Jain

posted on 20 Apr 2024

Interview experience

Excellent

Difficulty level

Moderate

Process Duration

2-4 weeks

Result

Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Mar 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical

(1 Question)

Q1. Apex question and some senario based

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Round 2 - HR

(1 Question)

Q1. Can you relocate

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - do well in apex and basic of admin part.

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Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

Wipro

Anonymous

posted on 16 Sep 2021

I was interviewed before Sep 2020.

Round 1 - Coding Test

(1 Question)

Round duration - 140 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Test timing was at 2:00 pm , it was conducted in a college and the environment was good for the test. Camera was a primary part of test, so no suspicious activity.

Q1.

Sum of Two Numbers Represented as Arrays

Given two numbers in the form of two arrays where each element of the array represents a digit, calculate the sum of these two numbers and return this sum as an ar...

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Given two numbers represented as arrays, calculate their sum and return the result as an array.

Iterate through the arrays from right to left, adding digits and carrying over if necessary
Handle cases where one array is longer than the other by considering the remaining digits
Ensure the final sum array does not have any leading zeros

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Round 2 - Face to Face

Round duration - 20 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

The round was conducted at around 12 p.m. I was called at the college location and then it was conducted. The interviewer was quite polite and frank.

Round 3 - HR

Round duration - 8 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This round was conducted right after finishing and clearing the technical round at the same place and on the same day.

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 60 %Wipro Limited interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - OOPS, Data Structures, Database Concepts, Coding problemsTime required to prepare for the interview - 2-3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Practice atleast 2-3 Coding problems daily so your logic building becomes stronger.
Tip 2 : Exercise problems based on OOPS concepts and others too.
Tip 3 : If you can have your own project built, then it's the major point and will act as a plus point.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Your resume should be in standard form, short and simple will be more effective.
Tip 2 : Whatever you have learned, you need to mention it in your resume as that will be your primary source of selection and having project on your resume is important.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

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Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

Infosys

Anonymous

posted on 10 Feb 2021

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Feb 2020. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire

1 Question

Q1. Hr

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - You should be true to what you are putting before the interviewer . Try to put your ideas Add something you did well in your career like in projects /research which you know very well and versed in concepts about it for open interview so that interviewer can get bandwidth where he can ask questions from. This is simply a key .

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Infosys

Anonymous

posted on 25 May 2021

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jul 2020. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire

1 Question

Q1. Why Java is platform independent?

Ans.

Java is platform independent due to its bytecode and JVM.

Java code is compiled into bytecode which is platform-independent.
JVM (Java Virtual Machine) interprets the bytecode and executes it on any platform.
JVM acts as an abstraction layer between the Java code and the underlying hardware.
This allows Java programs to run on any platform that has a JVM installed.
For example, a Java program written on a Windows machine ca...

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Java is platform-independent because it does not depend on any type of platform. Hence, Java is platform-independent language. In Java, programs are compiled into byte code and that byte code is platform-independent. ... Any machine to execute the byte code needs the Java Virtual Machine.

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Infosys

Anonymous

posted on 31 Jan 2021

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2020. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire

1 Question

Q1. 1.Describe a situation where you have taken a quick decision and failed, and a situation where you succeeded. 2. What is a skill you have tried to achieve but failed? 3. Describe a decision you have taken ...

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1. Always try to take risk in small problems . When you face the consequences, you would be able to tackle bigger problems.
2. Every skill you learn, even if you didn't excel in it is not to be considered a waste of time/failure, you learn something simply by participating.

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TCS

Anonymous

posted on 23 Jun 2021

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Jun 2020. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire

1 Question

Q1. Tell me about Yourself, some questions related to machine learning, and I was asked more questions to differentiate like differences between ml and ai, python and c, c and java and procedural and functiona...

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Get a complete grip on your resume and be confident about what you say, If you don't know the answer it is okay to agree that you don't know the answer so that interviewer can ask the next questions.

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Accenture

Anonymous

posted on 1 Jun 2022

I was interviewed before Jun 2021.

Round 1 - Coding Test

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 180 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was an mcq + coding round. There were aptitude and ouput based question in mcq. And coding questions were easy

Q1.

Find the Duplicate Number Problem Statement

Given an integer array 'ARR' of size 'N' containing numbers from 0 to (N - 2). Each number appears at least once, and there is one number that appears twice. Yo...

Ans.

Find the duplicate number in an array of integers from 0 to (N-2).

Iterate through the array and keep track of the frequency of each number using a hashmap.
Return the number with a frequency greater than 1 as the duplicate number.
Time complexity can be optimized to O(N) using Floyd's Tortoise and Hare algorithm.

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Q2.

Reverse String Operations Problem Statement

You are provided with a string S and an array of integers A of size M. Your task is to perform M operations on the string as specified by the indices in array A...

Ans.

Given a string and an array of indices, reverse substrings based on the indices to obtain the final string.

Iterate through the array of indices and reverse the substrings accordingly
Ensure the range specified by each index is non-empty
Return the final string after all operations are completed

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Round 2 - Video Call

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was technical + hr round. there were 2 people as interviewer. They stated from intro and asked some basic puzzles and hr questions. After that they asked about my projects, technologies and some ds algo and dbms questions.

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criterianaAccenture interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic ProgrammingTime required to prepare for the interview - 6 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Practice aptitude
Tip 2 : Focus on practicing coding
Tip 3 : Learn from mistakes

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Mention some projects that you have done
Tip 2 : Try to have skills that are required for the role

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

Infosys

Anonymous

posted on 12 Jan 2022

I applied via Job Portal and was interviewed before Jan 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire

1 Question

Q1. Oops Concepts,JAVA 8

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Quite simple and easy. 1st round technical.2nd round HR

Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

Infosys

Anonymous

posted on 17 Nov 2021

I applied via Monster and was interviewed before Nov 2020. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire

2 Questions

Q1. About MVC and .NET framework

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Q2. Questions on Rest API, Core services and WCF

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Need to be strong in basic .NET framework

Associate Interview Questions & Answers

Wipro

Anonymous

posted on 26 Sep 2020

Interview Questionnaire

1 Question

Q1. 1)Tmaus? 2 ) why are you lefted previous job? 3) technical skills knowledge 4) work in under pressure? 5) hr round 6) manager round

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