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Gainsight Software Engineer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 2 Oct 2024

Top Gainsight Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

  • Q1. A matrix consists of integers. A bomb has to be dropped at a cell in the matrix and its impact will get cascaded to the all the adjacent (top, bottom, right, left) cells ...read more
  • Q2. Print the nodes which are at the boundaries of a binary tree. (Leaf Nodes + Top view)
  • Q3. Dependency Injection & IOC in Spring

Gainsight Software Engineer Interview Experiences

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Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

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posted on 2 Oct 2024

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

Linkedlist , graph and tree

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. SQL , Coding ques of tree and array
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Discussion on 2 DSA Questions and some system design question

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

I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Guwahati and was interviewed before Sep 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Questions on data structure and algorithm

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Reverse linkedlist
  • Q2. Bit add and some theoritcal
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Data structure and algo and query
  • Q2. Merge sort explanation
  • Ans. 

    Merge sort is a divide and conquer algorithm that divides the input array into two halves, sorts them recursively, and then merges them back together in sorted order.

    • Divide the array into two halves

    • Recursively sort each half

    • Merge the sorted halves back together

  • Answered by AI
Round 4 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Manager round and some java based questions
  • Q2. Behavioural questions and java

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Dec 2022. There were 7 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.
View all tips
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Medium to hard questions were asked

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Buy stock sell problem
  • Ans. 

    The buy stock sell problem involves finding the maximum profit that can be made by buying and selling a stock at different prices.

    • Calculate the difference between each pair of prices in the array

    • Find the maximum subarray sum to get the maximum profit

    • Consider edge cases like when prices are decreasing or all prices are the same

  • Answered by AI
Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. 2 Hard DSA questions and Project related questions
Round 5 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Parking lot LLD
Round 6 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic spring boot project with test cases. Looked for clean code, design pattern usage, optimal usage of data types &data structures and edge cases covering in test cases.
Round 7 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary discussions and negotiations

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Focus on learning rather than clearing interviews. Once you focus on learning, you will crack interview sooner or later. Companies need problem solvers not interview crackers..

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 (1)

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 (1)

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 (1)

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 (1)

 Sdet

 (3)

 Front end Developer

 (2)

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

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Dec 2022. There were 7 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.
View all tips
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Medium to hard questions were asked

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Buy stock sell problem
  • Ans. 

    The Buy stock sell problem involves finding the maximum profit that can be obtained by buying and selling stocks.

    • Iterate through the array of stock prices

    • Keep track of the minimum price seen so far

    • Calculate the profit by subtracting the minimum price from the current price

    • Update the maximum profit if the calculated profit is greater

    • Return the maximum profit

  • Answered by AI
Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. 2 Hard DSA questions and Project related questions
Round 5 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Parking lot LLD
Round 6 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic spring boot project with test cases. Looked for clean code, design pattern usage, optimal usage of data types &data structures and edge cases covering in test cases.
Round 7 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary discussions and negotiations

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Focus on learning rather than clearing interviews. Once you focus on learning, you will crack interview sooner or later. Companies need problem solvers not interview crackers..

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Feb 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Javascript basics like closures,hoisting,2 small dsa qs,promises,event loop,positions in css,box model and many stuff so prepare for javascript basics and also html css.
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. It was about angular so asked me for derivates,rxjs,observables,some bit of redux coz I cam from react background

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Study javascript basics and any framework including reactjs or angular would work.Also work ok dsa

Interview Questionnaire 

6 Questions

  • Q1. Print the nodes which are at the boundaries of a binary tree. (Leaf Nodes + Top view)
  • Ans. 

    Print the nodes at the boundaries of a binary tree (leaf nodes + top view).

    • Traverse the tree in pre-order and keep track of the level of each node

    • Add the leftmost and rightmost nodes of each level to the result

    • For top view, traverse the tree in level-order and add the first node of each level to the result

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. A matrix consists of integers. A bomb has to be dropped at a cell in the matrix and its impact will get cascaded to the all the adjacent (top, bottom, right, left) cells if the adjacent cell has value 1 gr...
  • Ans. 

    Find minimum bombs to clear matrix by cascading impact to adjacent cells with value 1 greater than the bombed cell.

    • Create a 2D matrix of integers

    • Iterate through each cell and drop a bomb, then check its adjacent cells

    • If an adjacent cell has value 1 greater than the bombed cell, drop a bomb on that cell as well

    • Repeat until no more cells can be bombed

    • Count the number of bombs dropped to clear the matrix

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Design Pattern - Command & Factory
  • Q4. Dependency Injection & IOC in Spring
  • Ans. 

    Dependency Injection & IOC in Spring

    • Dependency Injection is a design pattern that allows objects to be loosely coupled and easily testable

    • In Spring, IOC (Inversion of Control) is used to manage dependencies and inject them into objects at runtime

    • IOC container in Spring is responsible for creating and managing objects and their dependencies

    • Spring supports different types of dependency injection such as constructor injec

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. Design book my show.
  • Q6. Performance related questions & concurrency

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview questions from similar companies

Interview experience
3
Average
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.
View all tips
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. C++ Basic Question OOPS Data structures
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Copy Constructors Polymorphism About Project

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Focus on basics first.
Basics should be clear.
Also Implement whatever you learn

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Nov 2022. There were 2 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.
View all tips
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Questions were on - C++11 - Data Structures - Multithreading - Virtual Functions
  • Q2. 1 Coding question on vector and array

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Question related to Job description so clear concepts

I applied via campus placement at Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli and was interviewed in Feb 2022. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

OOP mcq, 3 coding questions on array and string (easy and medium level),pseudo code etc

Round 2 - Code pairing round 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. They give one real time situation and you have to code it using oops concepts
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions on OOPS, PROJECTS, DATABASES , OS , AND DBMS
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. BASIC HR QUESTIONS LIKE WHY DO U WANT TO JOIN THOUGHTWORKS, DO YOU HAVE ANY FUTURE STUDY GOAL ETC

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - DO OOPS
BE HONEST
ANY HOW IMPRESS INTERVIEWER IN CODE PAIRING ROUND

Gainsight Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Gainsight Software Engineer interview?
Gainsight interview process usually has 3-4 rounds. The most common rounds in the Gainsight interview process are Technical, Coding Test and Behavioral.
How to prepare for Gainsight Software Engineer 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 Gainsight. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Gainsight expect are Data Structures, Javascript, Adobe, NoSQL and Maven.
What are the top questions asked in Gainsight Software Engineer interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Gainsight Software Engineer interview -

  1. A matrix consists of integers. A bomb has to be dropped at a cell in the matrix...read more
  2. Print the nodes which are at the boundaries of a binary tree. (Leaf Nodes + Top...read more
  3. Dependency Injection & IOC in Spr...read more

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Gainsight Software Engineer Interview Process

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