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Encore Capital Group Software Developer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips for Freshers

Updated 15 Sep 2021

Encore Capital Group Software Developer Interview Experiences for Freshers

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I was interviewed in Sep 2020.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 140 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This was MCQ and Coding round, there were some MCQ questions and coding question.

  • Q1. 

    Sum Between Zeroes Problem Statement

    Given a singly linked list containing a series of integers separated by the integer '0', modify the list by merging nodes between two '0's into a single node. This mer...

  • Ans. 

    Merge nodes between zeroes in a singly linked list to store the sum of included nodes.

    • Traverse the linked list and keep track of sum between zeroes

    • Merge nodes between zeroes by updating the sum in the merged node

    • Handle edge cases like list starting and ending with zero

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 

    Last Stone Weight Problem Explanation

    Given a collection of stones, each having a positive integer weight, perform the following operation: On each turn, select the two heaviest stones and smash them toge...

  • Ans. 

    Implement a function to find the weight of the last stone remaining after smashing the heaviest stones together.

    • Create a max heap to store the weights of stones.

    • Repeatedly pop the two heaviest stones, smash them, and push the result back into the heap.

    • Continue until there is at most one stone left in the heap.

    • Return the weight of the last stone, or 0 if no stones remain.

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Face to Face 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This round is face-to-face round in this interviewer ask me some questions .This round contained questions related to Object-Oriented Programming System and DP related coding problems.

  • Q1. 

    Connecting Ropes with Minimum Cost

    You are given 'N' ropes, each of varying lengths. The task is to connect all ropes into one single rope. The cost of connecting two ropes is the sum of their lengths. Yo...

  • Ans. 

    Given 'N' ropes of varying lengths, find the minimum cost to connect all ropes into one single rope.

    • Sort the lengths of ropes in ascending order.

    • Keep connecting the two shortest ropes at each step.

    • Add the cost of connecting the two ropes to the total cost.

    • Repeat until all ropes are connected.

    • Return the total cost as the minimum cost to connect all ropes.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Can you explain a real-time implementation of Object-Oriented Programming and the different types of polymorphism?
  • Ans. 

    Real-time implementation of OOP and types of polymorphism

    • Real-time implementation of OOP involves creating objects that interact with each other in real-time scenarios, such as a traffic light system where different objects represent different lights.

    • Polymorphism in OOP includes method overloading, where multiple methods have the same name but different parameters, and method overriding, where a subclass provides a spe...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI applied for the job as Software Developer in NoidaEligibility criteriaABove 60%Encore Capital Group interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - All major Data Structures and Algorithms - Algorithms related to topics: Graphs, trees, arrays, etc , Object oriented programming, Operating system.Time required to prepare for the interview - 4 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Do practice a lot of DP problems and pay more focus on Data Structure and algorithms related problems.
Tip 2 : Don’t panic in any situation during interview and have confidence on yourself. 
Tip 3 : I prepare for my interview through the interview preparation course of Coding Ninjas and it was too good. You will get all the concepts that are asked in an interview there.
Tip 4 : Also, pay more focus on Data structures and algorithms as they are most important part of the interview.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Resume doesn't matter as much if you have the right skills, at least for On-campus placements as most companies have shortlisting criteria based on CGPA, not on the resume. But keep your resume simple and readable.
Tip 2 : Do mention 2-3 good projects and your previous internship experiences as it will give a good impression to the interviewer and increases your chances of selection.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview questions from similar companies

I was interviewed before Mar 2016.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Some technical questions were asked
  • Q2. They spring hibernate MVC flow and core java and Oracle connectivity questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: There was a Team manager and his junior for the interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed in Mar 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. 1)Project related,
  • Q2. What is the Polymorphism?
  • Ans. 

    Polymorphism is the ability of a function or method to behave differently based on the object it is acting upon.

    • Polymorphism allows objects of different classes to be treated as objects of a common superclass.

    • There are two types of polymorphism: compile-time (method overloading) and runtime (method overriding).

    • Example: Inheritance in object-oriented programming languages like Java allows for polymorphism.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. What is RestController?
  • Ans. 

    RestController is a class in Spring framework used to handle HTTP requests and return responses as JSON or XML.

    • Handles HTTP requests in Spring framework

    • Returns responses as JSON or XML

    • Annotate a class with @RestController to define it as a RestController

    • Example: @RestController public class UserController {}

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Find the number of occurrences of each element in the given ArrayList

Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Discussion with hr like reason to switch.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - be good with basics

Skills evaluated in this interview

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 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me something about yourself
  • Q2. Tell about the recent project that you have worked upon
Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What are your salary expectations?
  • Q2. Why are you looking fir change

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Read JD well & do research on the company
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basics of SQL Basics CMD commands SQL query

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - This is a great company .read the basics of programming language.
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Jan 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

This round consisted of multiple choice questions based on angular and java. I was asked to design a 3X3 grid that should listen to the click event and the selected grid should change the color to green.

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Longest common subsequence of two string
  • Ans. 

    The longest common subsequence of two strings is the longest sequence of characters that appear in the same order in both strings.

    • Use dynamic programming to solve this problem efficiently.

    • Create a 2D array to store the lengths of the longest common subsequences.

    • Iterate through the characters of both strings and update the array based on the matching characters.

    • Trace back the array to find the longest common subsequence

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Logical questions, questions about my project
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Why this company, will you be able to relocate to given city

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Medium Interview and had positive experience

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before May 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basics are more important with good communication skills
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Jul 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Calaender based questions

I was interviewed in Feb 2021.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Round duration - 120 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Round 2 - Coding Test 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 120 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

  • Q1. 

    Rat in a Maze Problem Statement

    You need to determine all possible paths for a rat starting at position (0, 0) in a square maze to reach its destination at (N-1, N-1). The maze is represented as an N*N ma...

  • Ans. 

    Find all possible paths for a rat in a maze from source to destination.

    • Use backtracking to explore all possible paths in the maze.

    • Keep track of visited cells to avoid revisiting them.

    • Explore all possible directions ('U', 'D', 'L', 'R') from each cell.

    • Return the list of valid paths sorted in alphabetical order.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 

    Word Presence in Sentence

    Determine if a given word 'W' is present in the sentence 'S' as a complete word. The word should not merely be a substring of another word.

    Input:

    The first line contains an in...
  • Ans. 

    Check if a given word is present in a sentence as a complete word.

    • Split the sentence into words using spaces as delimiter.

    • Check if the given word matches any of the words in the sentence.

    • Ensure the word is not a substring of another word in the sentence.

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 6 cgpaBajaj Finserv Ltd. interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structure, OOPS, Algorithms, JavaScript, Html , CssTime required to prepare for the interview - 1 MonthInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Knowledge of api
Tip 2 : Practice Data Structure based questions.
Tip 3 : Do at least 1 project.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Keep it short.
Tip 2 : Do not mention participation certificates.

Final outcome of the interviewRejected

Skills evaluated in this interview

I was interviewed in Dec 2020.

Round 1 - Technical 
Round 2 - Assignment 
Round 3 - Personal Interview 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. 

    Alien Dictionary Problem Statement

    You are provided with a sorted dictionary (by lexical order) in an alien language. Your task is to determine the character order of the alien language from this dictiona...

  • Q2. 

    The Skyline Problem

    Compute the skyline of given rectangular buildings in a 2D city, eliminating hidden lines and forming the outer contour of the silhouette when viewed from a distance. Each building is ...

  • Q3. 

    Reverse Words In A String Problem Statement

    Given a string of length N, reverse the string word by word. Ensure that the output reversed string has a single space between two words and does not contain le...

  • Q4. 

    Flood Fill Algorithm Task

    Assist Ninja in altering the color of a specific region in his photo. Given the image as a 2D array where each pixel is a positive integer, update the color of a specified pixel ...

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI completed Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. I applied for the job as SDE - 1 in PuneEligibility criteria7 cgpa
Bajaj Finserv Ltd. interview Rounds:Round 1
Round type - Online Coding Interview
Round duration - 90 mintues
Round difficulty - Medium
Round description -

Silent environment


Round 2
Round type - Face to Face
Round duration - 50 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium
Round description -

Evening
One on one interview
Interviewer was friendly by nature

Bajaj Finserv Ltd. interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data structures, Sorting, Recursion, Pointers, OOPS, Algorithms, Greedy algorithms, Dynamic ProgrammingTime required to prepare for the interview - 5 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Be well versed with all the coding projects on your resume.
Tip 2 : Practice questions on the above mentioned topics from popular coding websites, like geegsforgeeks, interviewbit, etc, whichever suits you.
Tip 3 : Be familiar with the job profile you are applying for, go through the requirements of that profile and focus more on the skills it requires.
Tip 4 : Some courses like data structures and algorithms, if done, would be given more preference by interviewer over other candidates.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Mention high points during your life till now relevant to job profile.
Tip 2 : Mention internships, job experience, academics projects, coding projects precisely relevant to job profile.
Tip 3 : Review you resume by as many people as you can.
Tip 4 : Follow a proper syntax while preparing your resume.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

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