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Updated 22 Feb 2025

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QA Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 11 Dec 2024

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

One Medium level greedy question was asked

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Coding question was asked

Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Introduction of yoirself
  • Q2. Previous exoerience

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Q1. 80 pairs of socks in a dark room, 40 black, 40 white, how many minimum number of socks need to be taken out to get 15 pairs of socks
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Jan 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

There were 2 Questions in the Hackerrank Test
1. DP (Leetcode Hard)
2. Arrays (Medium)

Was able to solve almost 1 Question Completely, Second question with 80% Test Cases.

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Arrays Medium (Increasing Triplet Subsequence - Leetcode )
  • Q2. DP Hard ( Minimum Steps to Delete a String by deleting substring comprising of same characters - GFG)
  • Ans. 

    The problem involves finding the minimum steps to delete a substring comprising of same characters from a given string.

    • Use dynamic programming to keep track of the minimum steps required to delete substrings.

    • Iterate through the string and check for substrings with same characters.

    • Update the DP array with the minimum steps required to delete the substring.

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for DE Shaw Senior Member Technical interview:
  • Dynamic Programming
  • Graphs
  • Strings
  • Arrays
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - I Got rejected after the Technical round. DE Shaw expects atleast 80% of Solutions in every round.

Skills evaluated in this interview

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Intern Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 4 Dec 2024

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

(1 Question)

  • Q1. When have you solved a problem

Intern Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Case. There is a housing society “The wasteful society”, you collect all the household garbage and sell it to 5 different businesses. Determine what price you will pay to the society members in Rs/kg, given you want to make a profit of 20% ... read more
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Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-

I applied via campus placement at Delhi University - Hansraj College

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Quant, reasoning, cs fundamentals

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Intern Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 8 Dec 2024

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Jun 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

1 hour- data interpretation

Round 2 - Group Discussion 

Simple topic for freshers.

Intern Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Case. There is a housing society “The wasteful society”, you collect all the household garbage and sell it to 5 different businesses. Determine what price you will pay to the society members in Rs/kg, given you want to make a profit of 20% ... read more
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Associate Interview Questions & Answers

user image Annanya Chaturvedi

posted on 7 Nov 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Mostly logical CAT type ques. timed

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-

I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kolkatta

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Quantitative Puzzles

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Q1. What you think of our countries current economic condition ?
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Fellowship Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 24 Oct 2023

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Sep 2023. 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 - Coding Test 

The topic for coding test was from graph and dynamic programming, questions where from medium to hard level.

Round 3 - Technical 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. The questions where pure Data structure and Algorithm's. They asked about implementation of linked list, questions based on BST, recursion on array.
  • Q2. Implementation of stack and queue
  • Ans. 

    Stack and queue can be implemented using arrays or linked lists. Stack follows LIFO while queue follows FIFO.

    • Stack can be implemented using arrays with push and pop operations.

    • Queue can be implemented using arrays with enqueue and dequeue operations.

    • Both stack and queue can also be implemented using linked lists for dynamic size.

    • Example: Implementing a stack using an array in C++

    • Example: Implementing a queue using a li

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Find middle element of LinkedList
  • Ans. 

    To find the middle element of a LinkedList, use two pointers - one moving at double the speed of the other.

    • Initialize two pointers, slow and fast, at the head of the LinkedList.

    • Move the slow pointer by one step and the fast pointer by two steps until the fast pointer reaches the end of the LinkedList.

    • The element pointed to by the slow pointer at this point will be the middle element.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. Implementation of BST
  • Ans. 

    BST (Binary Search Tree) is a data structure where each node has at most two children, with left child being less than parent and right child being greater.

    • BST is used for efficient searching, insertion, and deletion of elements.

    • In-order traversal of BST gives elements in sorted order.

    • Example: Inserting elements 5, 3, 8, 1, 4 into a BST would result in a tree with root 5, left child 3, right child 8, and left child of

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. Recursion on array
  • Ans. 

    Recursively iterate through an array of strings

    • Use a base case to stop the recursion

    • Pass a smaller portion of the array in each recursive call

    • Concatenate or manipulate the strings as needed

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for DE Shaw Fellowship interview:
  • Graph Theory
  • Dynammic Programming
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Master your DSA skills, practice as many questions you can.

Skills evaluated in this interview

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Q1. find middle element of LinkedList
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Sdet Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 25 Sep 2023

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
6-8 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Aug 2023. There were 8 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 - Coding Test 

A coding round in hackerRank where, I got some aptitude and technical questions and two coding questions i solved one and half. One easy and one medium level.

Round 3 - Coding Test 

There was again a coding test with only two questions of coding in hackerRank platform.

Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. This round was a technical round and happened in hackerRank platform 2 basics coding questions.
Round 5 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. This round was also almost same two coding questions both were easy medium level with some testing OS and Networking question as mcq.
Round 6 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. This was more basic as the interview was very short and he just asked two coding questions.
Round 7 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. One coding question was asked this was medium level.
  • Q2. One test case where have to list the test cases for Google pay app, like what are the test failure cases or what you test if you're a tester pf gpay app.
Round 8 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic questions.

Sdet Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Given a M x N 2D array containing random alphabets and a function Dict(string word) which returns whether the 'word' is a valid English word. Find all possible valid words you can get from the 2D array, where the alphabets are adjacent to e... read more
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Good , just practice Leet code easy questions

Software Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... read more
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DE Shaw Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in DE Shaw interview?
DE Shaw interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the DE Shaw interview process are Technical, One-on-one Round and Coding Test.
How to prepare for DE Shaw interview?
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 DE Shaw. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at DE Shaw expect are Recruitment, Outsourcing, Direct Marketing, Analytical Chemistry and Administration Management.
What are the top questions asked in DE Shaw interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the DE Shaw interview -

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How long is the DE Shaw interview process?

The duration of DE Shaw interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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