HARMAN Embedded C Developer Interview Questions and Answers

Round: Test
Experience: 3 very simple questions on hackerrank.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 3

Round: Group Discussion
Duration: 1 hour

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Asked me to code up a simple question

College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Experience: exam was easy.
Tips: Be good in C programming
Duration: 75 minutes
Total Questions: 3

General Tips: Should be good in atleast c or c++
Skills: Algorithms And Data Structures
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: The accomodation and facilities
Funny Moments: Interviews are not funny.

General Tips: Before going for the interviews, take a sheet of paper and write an error free code, with extremely well named variables and optimized runtime each on Matrices, Linked List and Binary Tree. This will ensure that you have confidence and don't feel rusty while writing the code. Check your code twice to make it error free before showing the interviewer.
Skill Tips: geeksforgeeks is the most valuable site. The questions are generally taken from there. Careercup.com has the most common questions asked by Microsoft. Try to even brush up on OS concepts. Some interviewers ask that too. Practice all questions on linked list. This is generally the first interview question.
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL

General Tips: Don't ignore aptitude because it is really important. Never give up on any question in interview. Tell your interviewer anything you know about the question even if it is too simple to tell. Be confident.
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL

General Tips: 0. The most important thing. Know your level. Improve yourself by practicing more and be well aware of how smart you are. Wishful thinking can only get you so far.1. Writing fluent and optimized code is an art. I was lucky because I have been coding for a long time. If your coding skills aren't great, practice! I answered one crucial question completely wrong and still got through because of this skill.2. If you know an answer to a question, do not answer it immediately. Try to derive that answer from scratch and understand it before you go about blurting out the answer out of excitement. Let it look like a challenge.3. Learn External Sorting and Kadane's algorithm.4. Learn some basic OS facts like details about a program stack and what not.Make a CV right now! Compress it to one page. No one cares about your extra-curricular activities as much as you do. Include relevant details. Selection Procedure Preparation
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL

General Tips: As I got PPO from the company it was little better-luck for me as I escaped from On-Campus Competition.But yeah for getting intern and then PPO it was well challenging. But you can enjoy in parallel with little continuous hard work and smart preparation/work-out. Better find what will be asked in interview then learn accordingly concepts instead running behind CGPA(its enough 8- 8.5). You might get disappointed some time just try to catch plus from it and move forward. I have seen cases a student got rejected in one company placed in better one. You never know where is your destination. Better fix multiple than one.Now the pattern for Aptitude is changing. You will be given 60-90 min. and you have to code solutions for problems. Many of our batch-mates were not used to it. I was also rejected in more than 2 companies just because of not having good efficiency in handing online test. Be ready well before for such cases. Follow code-chef etc. Your preference for preparation should be DSA>OS>DBMS
Skill Tips: For Data-Structure and Algorithms preparation I followed NPTEL lectures and Corman. Whatever concept you learn from these try to implement using C/C++ or any language you like. It improved my coding as I started writing more Structured/Modular code which makes you more impressive in interviews. For more problems refer Careercup.com and GeekforGeeks.org. It was really luck for me during both intern and PPI interview I was asked questions from these websites. As these are favorites for all interviewers. Its better to write code first on paper than on compiler it reduces bugs/errors like NULL-pointer error. Aptitude C/C++ follow any good book and go through once. For C refer Dennis Ritchie. For DBMS/OS follow ppts or their standard textbooks. Try to learn as many concept as possible. Don't depend on your prof did he teach or not.
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL

General Tips: The interviews take up almost your complete day. Each round lasts for 45 min .The level of difficulty keeps increasing with each round. It is a bit exhausting and by the time you get to final round but trust me guys it's worth it.
Skill Tips: For Microsoft your code should be perfect and written in perfect programming style
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL

Round: Test
Experience: It was an online round conducted by cocubes. It had about 15 questions and time allotted was 30 minutes.
Duration: 30 minutes
Total Questions: 1

Round: Test
Experience: Note: Only allowed language was C.
Duration: 60 minutes

Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: The interview was scheduled at around 6:00 pm. It started with a brief intro by the interviewer followed by mine. He then asked some behavioral questions. What are the products that I have used of Microsoft? Why I would like to join Microsoft? He then asked me to rate myself on a scale of 10 in any of my favorite language. Questions based on testing was asked like how do you test your code for bugs.
He gave a scenario with details as follows:
Suppose you are given a tablet and you need to explain your great great grandfather the features of it so that he understands what you say and thinks it as a useful gadget. Assuming your grandfather has no idea about gadgets like mobile, computer etc.
He also asked me to mention my strength and weakness. No such algorithmic questions were asked in this round.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This was the last round.
It was a group coding round.We were made to sit around a round table with paper and pencil and the HR gave us two questions to code.

General Tips: The interviewer wanted a clean code with minimum cuts as possible. So I would suggest practice writing code on a piece of paper. Puzzles were also part of interview
Skills: c, trees, string, data structures
College Name: NA