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Updated 22 May 2022

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I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Apr 2022. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(7 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about your self ?
  • Ans. My name is Tejasree I'm from gudur Nellore Dt. I'm studying MCA in Krishna Chaitanya instruct & technology,i have completed BSc computer.
  • Answered Anonymously
  • Q2. Tell me about your strength ?
  • Q3. My strength is I'm a hardworking girl with positive attitude and self motivated.
  • Q4. Tell me about your weakness ?
  • Q5. My weakness is I am straight forward.
  • Q6. What is your goal and dreams?
  • Q7. My short term goal is to get a job in a reputed company in which I can grow my working skills and my long term goal is see myself as a backbone of my organization and respecteble position.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - As a fresher i am interested in learning new things as a student,i learn things theoretical but I'm waiting for an opportunity to implement them in a practical way.

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I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Jun 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. About me qualifications
  • Q2. Your choices in anything
  • Q3. How can do it traing period
  • Q4. Night shift i will do it
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Technical questions rise the

Interview Preparation Tips

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  • Java
  • Accounting
  • SQL Coding
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be do it and keep going . Smart worker is important .
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

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

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

This is optional test

Round 2 - versant and communication 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Versant and communication round
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. About your self
Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
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 

Simple basic coding with beginner level DSA

Round 3 - Technical 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Language related questions and from your resume.
  • Q2. Everything from your resume, languages mentioned will be asked for and some problems to be solved verbally in coding.
  • Q3. About your hobbies and why you prefer them
  • Q4. Rest APIs if you mention them will be plus point as they are user both in back and front ends.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well for aptitude round and always have complete knowledge on what you mention in your resume
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
No response

I was interviewed before Jan 2024.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Who are you in my job?

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. In which sector were you born?
  • Q2. India i am born is this

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Hi, can you believe it is the second?

I applied via Monster and was interviewed in Jun 2022. There were 4 interview rounds.

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 - Aptitude Test 

100 questions were there related to html, css, web api and javascript

Round 3 - Group Discussion 

Group discussion was on Functional programming verses OOPs

Round 4 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Why you want to join this company.
  • Q2. Where you see yourself after 5 years.

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  • HTML
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Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Overall experience was good.... Basic should be clear. Confidence is the thing which is required mostly. Also should be humble as they also check for the attitude. Problem solving skill is also checked.

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Mar 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Aggrawal

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. C,c++,JAVA basics of language, interested area
  • Q2. HR round,the talk about company and field

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - You have basic of how the coding can be excuted. You can to understand to study. The company good coding skill they can selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Nov 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Performance Tunings Joins
  • Q2. SSIS Bufferr and memories related queries Parallel processing in SSIS Power BI reporting life cycle DAX questions on power BI
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Role of CPU AND Cores in Performance Improvement Sharding concepts TABLE PARTITION DATA WAREHOUSE
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Role based questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - I gave Interview for BI Developer
They focused mainly on the Performance Tunings concept. Role of CPU and Cores in performance Tuning. Basic SQL and SSIS related questions.
Data warehouse concepts and in detail of star and snowflake schema

I applied via campus placement at PNC and KR Degree College, Narasaraopet and was interviewed in May 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

A,b,c,d=8,7,5,3
e=(a+b//c) - (a*d+c//d+a%c)
print(e)

Round 2 - HR 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself
  • Q2. Why do you want to work for our company
  • Q3. What are you greatest strengths and weaknesses

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - know yourself and what you want
pump yourself up and stay positive
market your self

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in May 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

6 Questions

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself.
  • Q2. Two coding questions were asked.
  • Q3. 1. Find the first occurrence of the target value in a sorted array. (Duplicates are allowed)
  • Ans. 

    Find the first occurrence of target value in a sorted array with duplicates.

    • Use binary search to find the target value.

    • If found, check if the previous element is also the target value.

    • If not, return the index of the target value.

    • If yes, continue binary search on the left subarray.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. 2. Find the maximum subarray sum given an array with positive and negative integers.
  • Ans. 

    Find the maximum subarray sum in an array with positive and negative integers.

    • Use Kadane's algorithm to find the maximum subarray sum.

    • Initialize two variables, one for current maximum and one for global maximum.

    • Iterate through the array and update the variables accordingly.

    • Return the global maximum.

    • Example: [-2, 1, -3, 4, -1, 2, 1, -5, 4] returns 6 (subarray [4, -1, 2, 1])

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. Some questions regarding DBMS. (Normalisation, primary & foreign key, ACID, etc)
  • Q6. Also asked some basic concepts of operating systems.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - This was a techincal interview which lasted for about 1 hour. The interviewer wanted to check the technical knowledge and confidence level.
Always make sure if you don't know the answer, don't make your own answers. It won't help you and restricting you from getting more questions which you may know about.

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