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Updated 13 Aug 2024

CPP Investments Software Engineer Interview Experiences

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
-

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed before Aug 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Java program , array based questions were asked

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Java and angular question
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Company introduction and Culture discussion
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Management and roles and Salary discussion

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Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Types of garbage collectors
Round 2 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary negotiation
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

2 coding questions based on DSA.

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Easy coding problem.
  • Q2. Medium coding problem.
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Social media and was interviewed in Mar 2023. There were 4 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 

Must contain some questions which will be considered as a qualifier test for next round .it will have some passout marks to get into a next round .

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. About skills and communication skills
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. About introduction and some questions related to job

I was interviewed in May 2022.

Round 1 - Video Call 

(1 Question)

Round duration - 45 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

The interviewer was friendly. Explained the question well. Allowed to use any preferred platform to write code.

  • Q1. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock

    You are given an array/list 'prices' where the elements of the array represent the prices of the stock as they were yesterday and indices of the array represent minu...

  • Ans. Brute Force

    We will check all the possible ways of buying and selling stocks. We will fix the time we are buying the stock and check all the possible minutes we can sell this stock and update the maximum profit we can get. Now we will take the maximum profit for all the possible buying time and that would be our final maximum profit.

     

    Algorithm: 
     

    1. Initialize an integer variable ‘maxProfit’ to store the maxi...

  • Answered Anonymously
Round 2 - Video Call 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

  • Q1. Dance Together

    Ninja has recently joined a dance studio as a coach. In the studio, there are N boys and M girls. He can make K potential pairs out of them. He needs to find the maximum number of pairs he c...

  • Ans. Greedy Approach

    If we observe the given problem, we can model it in a graph, specifically a bipartite graph - G (X, Y), where ‘X’ is a vertex set of boys and ‘Y’ is vertex set of girls, and there an edge between a girl and boy if they can dance together. Now we just need to find a set with a maximum number of edges such that no two edges in the set have a common vertex. Here, we will use the concept of Maximum Bipartite...

  • Answered Anonymously
  • Q2. OS Question

    Multiprocessing vs multithreading

Round 3 - Video Call 

(1 Question)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

  • Q1. System Design Question

    Describe classes and functions for the design of Splitwise.

  • Ans. 

    Tip 1 : Read different designs for different products.

  • Answered Anonymously
Round 4 - Video Call 

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI applied for the job as Software Engineer in GurgaonEligibility criteriaNo criteriaTower Research Capital interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures and Algorithms, Low level design, High Level Design, Relational Database Management Systems, Operating SystemsTime required to prepare for the interview - 6 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Practice at least 5 questions of each topic of various difficulty levels
Tip 2 : Read out theory articles about your preferred language showing your proficiency in the same.
Tip 3 : Hard work is overrated, consistency is the key.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Own everything you have there, do not add random skills that you are not proficient in.
Tip 2 : Keep it clean and try to give out minimal but most of the relevant information for the role.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

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 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. About projects in resume
  • Q2. Resume related questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - prepare well and be confident speak properly in the interview
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Jan 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

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 - Group Discussion 

What is the company role and what going on this company

Round 3 - Group Discussion 

What is the salary in this company

Round 4 - Coding Test 

What is the coding test I don't know pls give me explain

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Nice company, good feeling in this company, ☺️ and thank u sir.

I was interviewed before Jun 2016.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1.  Given k and DFS traversal string for a k-ary tree, construct the tree. The String contains P (if a parent) and L (if a leaf). E.g. - k=3, str="PPLLLLL" 2. All the strings are arranged in the following ord...
  • Ans. 

    The question asks to construct a k-ary tree using the given k and DFS traversal string.

    • Iterate through the DFS traversal string

    • If the current character is 'P', create a parent node

    • If the current character is 'L', create a leaf node

    • Link the nodes according to the DFS traversal order

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. "How would you tell whether a graph has a node with n degree?"
  • Ans. 

    To determine if a graph has a node with n degree, iterate through all nodes and count their edges.

    • Iterate through each node in the graph

    • Count the number of edges connected to each node

    • If any node has n edges, then the graph has a node with n degree

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Questions on C++(Virtual fns, inheritance). Two on probability, 12 on Algorithms
Duration: 45 minutes

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: He asked some more puzzles and some probability (expectation) questions. Then, he modified one question asked in the written test and asked me write code for it on paper.
Tips: First of all, prepare all the questions asked in the test before going for the interviews.


Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Sep 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Logic base questions minimum 30

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Two coding questions in one hr

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for MNC Group Software Engineer interview:
  • Python
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Hr round can give job conform.it should for mnc companies 😉

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

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - No I Am Sorry I Don't know for the advice in interview

CPP Investments Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in CPP Investments Software Engineer interview?
CPP Investments interview process usually has 4 rounds. The most common rounds in the CPP Investments interview process are HR, Coding Test and Technical.

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