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Updated 14 Dec 2024

Top HackerRank Interview Questions and Answers

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21 interviews found

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

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Feb 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Coding question on trees fairly medium question
Round 2 - System design 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. HLD focussed round

Software Development Engineer II Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Given 2 large numeric comma seperated strings. You need to calculate their sum along with maintaining the correct position of commas. Example Test Case - s1 - "123,456,788" s2 - "1" output - "123,456,789" constraints - since the strings can... read more
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

It was a Coding Interview with 2 basic DSA Questions

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. It was a LLD discussion to create a service like Bookmyshow.
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. A high level design interview around Google Docs
Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. A Technical Discussion with the Hiring Manager
Round 5 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. A value fit round by the HR

Senior Software Developer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Intersection of Linked ListYou are given two Singly Linked List of integers, which are merging at some node of a third linked list. Your task is to find the data of the node at which merging starts. If there is no merging, return -1. For ex... read more
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pm intern Interview Questions & Answers

user image Bhavya Gupta

posted on 18 May 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. General background
Round 2 - Case Study 

Product improvements

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

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Jul 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Create specific components
  • Ans. 

    Creating specific components for software development

    • Identify the requirements for the component

    • Design the component architecture

    • Implement the component using appropriate programming languages and tools

    • Test the component for functionality and performance

    • Integrate the component into the larger software system

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Software Developer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Maximum Subarray SumGiven an array of numbers, find the maximum sum of any contiguous subarray of the array. For example, given the array [34, -50, 42, 14, -5, 86], the maximum sum would be 137, since we would take elements 42, 14, -5, and ... read more
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 Intern

 (1)

 Internship Trainee

 (1)

 Product Specialist

 (1)

Sdet-I Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 9 Jan 2023

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

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Jul 2022. There were 5 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 

It consisted 3 questions, first was coding, second was xPath and third was test cases

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. 2 coding questions, 1 selector question, then general questions of Java and testing.
Round 4 - Case Study 

This was regarding testing processes, questions about testing processes, RCA, test cases

Round 5 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. General HR and behavioral round

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Work a little on coding and more on testing process and test cases

Sdet-I Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Given a binary tree, count the number of occurrences where there are two nodes with the same horizontal distance. To make it clearer, if we assume each node in a cell of a matrix, then count the number of occurrences when there is a collisi... read more
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Intern Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 27 Nov 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Nov 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Project discussion
  • Q2. Technical Project discussion

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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Jobs at HackerRank

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
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.
View all tips
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Lovely and supportive recruiters, 2-hour test consisting of Advanced SQL and Statistics!

Round 3 - Didnt Qualify for Round 2 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Didn't Qualify for Round 2

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Make sure your code compiles and be comfortable with the Hackerrank Platform!

Product Specialist Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. How product specialist is different from product analyst?
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SDE Intern Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 23 May 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
-
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before May 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Project walkthrough over call with CTO
  • Q2. College and personal projects

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Project walkthrough over a phone call with CTO

SDE Intern Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Given a string of containing lower case letters and upper case characters. Find the number of occurrences of each character. The question was further modified to include the special characters as well. I was asked to design the test cases f... read more
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I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Feb 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Scenario type question
Round 2 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary Discussion and all V&A
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. As per your roll and responsibility

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Please prepare as per JD and set for all scenario question

Senior Systems Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Find Nth PrimeYou are given a number 'N'. Your task is to find Nth prime number. A prime number is a number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers. Prime numbers have only two factors – 1 and the number itself. ... read more
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I applied via Job Portal and was interviewed in Mar 2022. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. How html css and js be executed
  • Ans. 

    HTML, CSS, and JS are executed by the browser.

    • HTML is parsed and rendered into a Document Object Model (DOM)

    • CSS is applied to the DOM to style the content

    • JS is executed to add interactivity and manipulate the DOM

    • Browser engines like Blink, Gecko, and WebKit handle the execution

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. When to use functional components and when to use class components (other than state management)
  • Ans. 

    Functional components are simpler and easier to test, while class components offer more features and lifecycle methods.

    • Use functional components for simple UI components

    • Use class components for more complex UI components

    • Functional components are easier to read and maintain

    • Class components offer more lifecycle methods and state management options

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare from the basics of your favourite technology whether it is react or angular or js

Skills evaluated in this interview

Front end Developer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Non-Decreasing ArrayYou have been given an integer array/list 'ARR' of size 'N'. Write a solution to check if it could become non-decreasing by modifying at most 1 element. We define an array as non-decreasing, if ARR[i] <= ARR[i + 1] ho... read more
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HackerRank Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in HackerRank interview?
HackerRank interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the HackerRank interview process are Technical, One-on-one Round and Coding Test.
How to prepare for HackerRank 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 HackerRank. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at HackerRank expect are Medical Insurance, Silicon, VCS, Coding and Troubleshooting.
What are the top questions asked in HackerRank interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the HackerRank interview -

  1. Case study - How would you improve efficiency (higher orders delivered per hour...read more
  2. When to use functional components and when to use class components (other than ...read more
  3. How html css and js be execu...read more

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