DE Shaw Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Q1. Tell me about youtself?
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I am a dedicated and experienced professional with a strong background in project management and team leadership.
• Over 10 years of experience in project management

• Proven track record of successfully leading cross-functional teams

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Certified in project management (PMP)

• Previously managed a project with a budget of $1 million
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Q2. What do you know about TDS?
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TDS stands for Tax Deducted at Source, a system where tax is deducted by the payer at the time of making payment.
• TDS is a system introduced by the Income Tax Department of India to collect tax at the source from where an individual's income is generated.

• It is applicable to various payments such as salary, interest, commission, rent, etc.

• The deducted TDS amount is then deposited to the government by the deductor.

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Q3. Situation AP based journal entries
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Q4. What is GST on reverse charge?
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GST on reverse charge is a mechanism where the recipient of the goods/services is liable to pay the tax instead of the supplier.
• Under reverse charge mechanism, the recipient of the goods/services is responsible for paying the GST instead of the supplier.

• It is applicable in certain cases like import of services, specified goods/services, etc.

• The recipient needs to self-assess and pay the tax directly to the government.

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Q5. What are the documents required to initiate a foreign remittance?
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Documents required for foreign remittance include identification proof, proof of address, and purpose of remittance.
• Identification proof such as passport or driver's license

• Proof of address like utility bill or bank statement

• Purpose of remittance document like invoice or agreement
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Q6. More situational based AP journal entries.
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Q1. Behavioural Questions
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Q2. Scenario Based Questions
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Q1. Scenario Based Questions
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Q2. Guestimates
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Q1. Role Based & Work Experience Based
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2 Coding questions - medium to hard

Q1. Questions on scalable systems.
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Q2. Medium level DSA questions.
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Q1. Questions on SQL
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Q2. Implement LFU using OOPs concepts from scratch.
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Implement LFU cache using OOPs concepts
• Create a class for LFU cache with methods like get, put, and remove

• Use a hashmap to store key-value pairs and a hashmap to store frequency of each key

• Implement a doubly linked list to store keys with the same frequency
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Q1. Given list of strings, group them as anagrams and return the list.
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Group list of strings as anagrams and return the list.
• Create a hashmap to store sorted strings as keys and list of anagrams as values

• Iterate through the list of strings, sort each string and add it to the corresponding list in the hashmap

• Return the values of the hashmap as the grouped anagrams
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Q2. Questions on OOP and what is static and final keyword
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