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- Q1. C++ basics concepts & Design patterns
- Q2. Multithreading and STL
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- Q1. Off-campus interviews in Bangalore
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Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Only a few students will get shortlisted who do all the questions correctly.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: First 4 rounds on day 1 and this are just to shortlist for more rounds on some other day.
Tips: They will focus on almost all the concepts of computer science.You need to practice a lot and start it right now. Should be easy if you have prepared well enough. Use your holidays to start preparing for placements.
General Tips: Sooner you start, better your placement will be as lack of practice & last day study works only for exams but never for interviews. You'll get enough time to prepare for interviews once you get shortlisted. Focus on it even if you are placed already.
Skill Tips: They will focus on almost all the concepts of computer science.
Skills: C , Aptitude
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL
Experience: Only a few students will get shortlisted who do all the questions correctly.
Round: Other Interview
Experience: First 4 rounds on day 1 and this are just to shortlist for more rounds on some other day.
Tips: They will focus on almost all the concepts of computer science.You need to practice a lot and start it right now. Should be easy if you have prepared well enough. Use your holidays to start preparing for placements.
General Tips: Sooner you start, better your placement will be as lack of practice & last day study works only for exams but never for interviews. You'll get enough time to prepare for interviews once you get shortlisted. Focus on it even if you are placed already.
Skill Tips: They will focus on almost all the concepts of computer science.
Skills: C , Aptitude
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL
I was interviewed in Dec 2016.
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: On-site interview (5 hours).
4 back-to-back 45-minute coding interviews, followed by a design interview, with a lunch break with a Googler in the middle.
The first coding interview was a set of (surprisingly) trivial (no algorithms needed) incremental coding questions.
The two next coding interviews were problems straight from the "Cracking the coding interview" book. Even though I divulged that I'd solved pretty much exactly the same problem before, they didn't give me an alternative problem and I quickly coded up a general and optimal solution for the problems. Follow-up in-depth questions were minimal and not hard.
The last coding question was a pure algorithm question related to search trees/tries. No coding required, spent the whole time reasoning about the most effective algorithm. This was a bit of a brain twister.
The design question was related to high-level system design (not OO design) for storage and search in geographic data. Focus was effective search as well as scalability both in traffic and data volumes.
Tips: Read "Cracking the coding interview" or other similar literature. Solve all the problems and you should be good to go. If you solve a bunch of problems at HackerRank (or similar) as well, you'll have the added bonus of training on how to generalize the algorithms.
Experience: On-site interview (5 hours).
4 back-to-back 45-minute coding interviews, followed by a design interview, with a lunch break with a Googler in the middle.
The first coding interview was a set of (surprisingly) trivial (no algorithms needed) incremental coding questions.
The two next coding interviews were problems straight from the "Cracking the coding interview" book. Even though I divulged that I'd solved pretty much exactly the same problem before, they didn't give me an alternative problem and I quickly coded up a general and optimal solution for the problems. Follow-up in-depth questions were minimal and not hard.
The last coding question was a pure algorithm question related to search trees/tries. No coding required, spent the whole time reasoning about the most effective algorithm. This was a bit of a brain twister.
The design question was related to high-level system design (not OO design) for storage and search in geographic data. Focus was effective search as well as scalability both in traffic and data volumes.
Tips: Read "Cracking the coding interview" or other similar literature. Solve all the problems and you should be good to go. If you solve a bunch of problems at HackerRank (or similar) as well, you'll have the added bonus of training on how to generalize the algorithms.
Shubham Srivastava
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Written round: One programming question of 3 hours duration.All test cases were to passed.
Duration: 3 hours minutes
Total Questions: 1
Round: Technical Interview
Experience:
There were two rounds : tech PI and HR round.
A.Tech. PI: Firstly,interviewer went through my whole resume.He started asking questions from project done during summer internship.Questions were:
1.What is he project about?
2.Difference between 3G and 4G.
3.What is the aim of this research internship?
4.How much was i able to complete in two months?(I told that i am continuing as major project,since in two months time i could not get desired result).
Then, he went onto programming language i was comfortable. I answered C.
1.sizeof("shubham")
strlen("shubham")
I was asked to write output.Output would be 8 and 7. He asked why. Basic concepts should be clear.
2.Storage Classes in C-asked me concept and gave some questions to write output.
3.Constant pointers and pointers to constant. Asked to write output of snippets he gave.
4.malloc,caloc,realloc,free-syntax
5.Questions on pointers.
Basic concepts of let us C were asked mostly,that book is enough . Also see, GEEKSFORGEEKS, C section.
Operating System: Mutex and Semaphore,critical Section, Scheduling algorithms, Producer-Consumer Problem.
(Data Structures was not asked to me but others.)
Puzzles:
1. Maximum run a batsman can make in 50 overs.
2.There are 10 coins. 5 face head side and 5 as tail. You are blind folded.Make two piles of equal number of coins such that number of head in equal in both the piles.
Assumption:You can flip coin any number of times.
Question: Why do you want to join Samsung ,though placed in other company?
Questions: Any plans of future studies. I answered 'NO' only job.
Last question: Any question I would like to ask them. I asked what work would be doing in R&D. He explained me a lot of things.
Tips: 1.Be thorough with your project(done during internship or training) . You should be able to answer almost all the questions.
2.Study operating system very well if you plan to sit in samsung R&D.
3.Data structures and any one programming language.
4.Prepare puzzles as it can be asked by anyone. See programmerinterview.com etc.
5.Refer samsung archives of GEEKSFORGEEKS . Interview questions were mostly covering those.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: 1.Introduce yourself.
2.How would your friends describe you?
3.Tell the recent experiences of which makes you initiative.(i told that i am initiative,then he asked that question. So be ready with the examples,when u say any of your qualities.)
4.What is your weakness?
5.Puzzles.He asked me to fill the numbers from 1 to 8 in these 8 boxes, one number exactly once, such that no two consecutive elements are
adjacent(diagonally, horizontally or vertically) to each other.
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6.Which places in India have you been?
Skills: Solving Logic Puzzles, Basic C/C++, Data Structures, Operating Systems
College Name: NIT Raipur
Experience: Written round: One programming question of 3 hours duration.All test cases were to passed.
Duration: 3 hours minutes
Total Questions: 1
Round: Technical Interview
Experience:
There were two rounds : tech PI and HR round.
A.Tech. PI: Firstly,interviewer went through my whole resume.He started asking questions from project done during summer internship.Questions were:
1.What is he project about?
2.Difference between 3G and 4G.
3.What is the aim of this research internship?
4.How much was i able to complete in two months?(I told that i am continuing as major project,since in two months time i could not get desired result).
Then, he went onto programming language i was comfortable. I answered C.
1.sizeof("shubham")
strlen("shubham")
I was asked to write output.Output would be 8 and 7. He asked why. Basic concepts should be clear.
2.Storage Classes in C-asked me concept and gave some questions to write output.
3.Constant pointers and pointers to constant. Asked to write output of snippets he gave.
4.malloc,caloc,realloc,free-syntax
5.Questions on pointers.
Basic concepts of let us C were asked mostly,that book is enough . Also see, GEEKSFORGEEKS, C section.
Operating System: Mutex and Semaphore,critical Section, Scheduling algorithms, Producer-Consumer Problem.
(Data Structures was not asked to me but others.)
Puzzles:
1. Maximum run a batsman can make in 50 overs.
2.There are 10 coins. 5 face head side and 5 as tail. You are blind folded.Make two piles of equal number of coins such that number of head in equal in both the piles.
Assumption:You can flip coin any number of times.
Question: Why do you want to join Samsung ,though placed in other company?
Questions: Any plans of future studies. I answered 'NO' only job.
Last question: Any question I would like to ask them. I asked what work would be doing in R&D. He explained me a lot of things.
Tips: 1.Be thorough with your project(done during internship or training) . You should be able to answer almost all the questions.
2.Study operating system very well if you plan to sit in samsung R&D.
3.Data structures and any one programming language.
4.Prepare puzzles as it can be asked by anyone. See programmerinterview.com etc.
5.Refer samsung archives of GEEKSFORGEEKS . Interview questions were mostly covering those.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: 1.Introduce yourself.
2.How would your friends describe you?
3.Tell the recent experiences of which makes you initiative.(i told that i am initiative,then he asked that question. So be ready with the examples,when u say any of your qualities.)
4.What is your weakness?
5.Puzzles.He asked me to fill the numbers from 1 to 8 in these 8 boxes, one number exactly once, such that no two consecutive elements are
adjacent(diagonally, horizontally or vertically) to each other.
-----/
6.Which places in India have you been?
Skills: Solving Logic Puzzles, Basic C/C++, Data Structures, Operating Systems
College Name: NIT Raipur
Satyam Chaubey
I was interviewed in Aug 2016.
Interview Questionnaire
2 Questions
- Q1. Questions related to my project, questions on binary tree, questions from OS (like paging and scheduling). Interviewer also asked about competitive coding
- Q2. Formal questions regarding my background, family members etc
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Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Duration: 1 hour
Skills: General Coding And Problem Solving, Puzzle Solving Capability
College Name: NIT Jamshedpur
Duration: 1 hour
Skills: General Coding And Problem Solving, Puzzle Solving Capability
College Name: NIT Jamshedpur
Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The first consisted of an online test which had an aptitude section which was pretty simply and then a programming section consisting of three different programs. The programs were logical required basic knowledge of array, sorting and a little bit of data structures.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Around 13 of us were shortlisted for the interview round, B.Tech and M.Tech included. The interview round was mostly interactive, where we had to mention about the various interns that we went through. A few programming questions were asked based on topics which we were comfortable with.
Tips: Just get used to coding, data structures and basic aptitude. GRE preparation as such helped me.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Finally there was a HR round in which I was asked as to why I would like to work in Samsung R&D and general things about interests and future plans. On the whole Samsung took 3 B.Tech students and 2 M.Tech students when they came for placements apart from PPOs.
General Tips: Personally I feel that one should apply in only those companies in which they are sure of having job satisfaction. So don't apply to companies which you are not interested in just for the sake of having a backup because once you are placed you do not have a second chance.
Do not get dejected if you do not get through in the first few tries. Keep your hopes up and be confident when ever you get to interview rounds. Try to be assertive when giving answers. It is some times exhausting to go through placements but the moment you get placed you will have the best feeling ever.
Skill Tips: Just chill and take the test. Once you clear the online test, irrespective of your pointer if you have a good profile you can convince the interviewers.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
Experience: The first consisted of an online test which had an aptitude section which was pretty simply and then a programming section consisting of three different programs. The programs were logical required basic knowledge of array, sorting and a little bit of data structures.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Around 13 of us were shortlisted for the interview round, B.Tech and M.Tech included. The interview round was mostly interactive, where we had to mention about the various interns that we went through. A few programming questions were asked based on topics which we were comfortable with.
Tips: Just get used to coding, data structures and basic aptitude. GRE preparation as such helped me.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Finally there was a HR round in which I was asked as to why I would like to work in Samsung R&D and general things about interests and future plans. On the whole Samsung took 3 B.Tech students and 2 M.Tech students when they came for placements apart from PPOs.
General Tips: Personally I feel that one should apply in only those companies in which they are sure of having job satisfaction. So don't apply to companies which you are not interested in just for the sake of having a backup because once you are placed you do not have a second chance.
Do not get dejected if you do not get through in the first few tries. Keep your hopes up and be confident when ever you get to interview rounds. Try to be assertive when giving answers. It is some times exhausting to go through placements but the moment you get placed you will have the best feeling ever.
Skill Tips: Just chill and take the test. Once you clear the online test, irrespective of your pointer if you have a good profile you can convince the interviewers.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers
Microsoft Corporation
Sachin Sridhar
posted on 21 Aug 2016
I applied via Campus Placement
Interview Questionnaire
6 Questions
- Q1. Testing whether every left child's value is less than the right child's value in a binary tree
- Ans.
To test if every left child's value is less than the right child's value in a binary tree.
Traverse the binary tree using any traversal algorithm (e.g., in-order, pre-order, post-order)
Compare the value of each left child with its right child
If any left child's value is greater than or equal to its right child's value, return false
If all left child's values are less than their right child's values, return true
- Q2. Cloning a linked list-like structure
- Ans.
Cloning a linked list-like structure
Create a new node for each node in the original linked list
Set the value of the new node to the value of the corresponding node in the original linked list
Set the next pointer of the new node to the new node corresponding to the next node in the original linked list
Repeat the above steps until all nodes in the original linked list are cloned
- Q3. Finding the nth character in a stream of bytes
- Ans.
To find the nth character in a stream of bytes, we need to read the stream byte by byte until we reach the nth position.
Start reading the stream byte by byte until you reach the nth position
Return the byte at the nth position
If the stream ends before reaching the nth position, return null or throw an exception
- Q4. Rearranging a string so no consecutive characters are the same
- Ans.
Rearrange a string to avoid consecutive same characters.
Iterate through the string and keep track of the previous character.
If the current character is the same as the previous, swap it with the next different character.
Repeat until no consecutive same characters are left.
- Q5. Finding the next highest palindrome
- Ans.
The task is to find the next highest palindrome number given a number.
Convert the given number to a string
Check if the number is already a palindrome
If not, increment the number by 1 and check if it is a palindrome
Repeat the previous step until a palindrome is found
- Q6. To canonicalize a directory path
- Ans.
Canonicalizing a directory path involves simplifying and standardizing the path to remove any redundant or unnecessary elements.
Remove any consecutive slashes and replace them with a single slash
Remove any trailing slashes
Resolve any relative paths (e.g., '..' and '.')
Handle special cases like the root directory ('/')
Normalize the path by removing any unnecessary elements
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Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: The test started an hour late, which could have been avoided with some better planning. The test experience was pretty good for me since I am used to using HackerRank's online platform for competitive coding.
Tips: Maybe a little sample session before the actual test would help.
Duration: 75 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I enjoyed the interview experience; the panel was friendly and encouraging.
General Tips: Nice interview, questions were well thought out.
Skills: Algorithms And Data Structures
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: What interests me about Microsoft is the nature and the scale of the work they're doing. Every day they impact billions of people worldwide, and I would love to be a part of this organization.
Experience: The test started an hour late, which could have been avoided with some better planning. The test experience was pretty good for me since I am used to using HackerRank's online platform for competitive coding.
Tips: Maybe a little sample session before the actual test would help.
Duration: 75 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I enjoyed the interview experience; the panel was friendly and encouraging.
General Tips: Nice interview, questions were well thought out.
Skills: Algorithms And Data Structures
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: What interests me about Microsoft is the nature and the scale of the work they're doing. Every day they impact billions of people worldwide, and I would love to be a part of this organization.
Skills evaluated in this interview
Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers
Microsoft Corporation
Girish Raguvir J
posted on 21 Aug 2016
I applied via Campus Placement
Interview Questionnaire
1 Question
- Q1. Algorithmic Coding, Testing, Databases & other CS Concepts
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Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Decent knowledge of coding was needed.Speed was of essence.
Tips: Practice coding and be quick.
Duration: 75 minutes
Total Questions: 3
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I had 3 technical interviews.The interviewers were very friendly.It involved writing paper on code which required me to be very precise and error free.
Tips: Practice coding.Practice writing code on paper and thinking out loud.
General Tips: Prepare well and be confident.
Skills: Unit Testing, Implementation Of Code Using OOPS, Database, Algorithms And Data Structures
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: Microsoft.The company speaks
Experience: Decent knowledge of coding was needed.Speed was of essence.
Tips: Practice coding and be quick.
Duration: 75 minutes
Total Questions: 3
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I had 3 technical interviews.The interviewers were very friendly.It involved writing paper on code which required me to be very precise and error free.
Tips: Practice coding.Practice writing code on paper and thinking out loud.
General Tips: Prepare well and be confident.
Skills: Unit Testing, Implementation Of Code Using OOPS, Database, Algorithms And Data Structures
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: Microsoft.The company speaks
Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers
Microsoft Corporation
Hardik Suthar
posted on 2 Dec 2016
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016. There were 6 interview rounds.
Interview Questionnaire
3 Questions
- Q1. Coding Questions and Thinking Process Analysis.
- Q2. Analysis about app performance
- Ans.
App performance analysis involves identifying and resolving bottlenecks to improve user experience.
Collect and analyze performance metrics such as response time, CPU usage, memory usage, and network latency.
Identify and prioritize bottlenecks based on impact on user experience and frequency of occurrence.
Implement optimizations such as caching, code refactoring, and database tuning.
Continuously monitor and test perform...
- Q3. Discussion about the project mentioned in resume.
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Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: Two questions were given and we are supposed to write code for the same.
Tips: Whatever idea is there, just discuss with interviewer.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 2
Round: Problem Statement
Experience: You have to solve the question for next round.
Tips: Practice coding well.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: A coding question was given, but much difficult one, they were looking for approach.
Tips: Share your thought Process Clearly.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: A full depth project round was there. They asked my role and responsibility.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: An application was given to you and you have to make it better the way you can.
Skills: Technical Questions, Technical Analysis, Ability To Cope Up With Stress
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: Two questions were given and we are supposed to write code for the same.
Tips: Whatever idea is there, just discuss with interviewer.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 2
Round: Problem Statement
Experience: You have to solve the question for next round.
Tips: Practice coding well.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: A coding question was given, but much difficult one, they were looking for approach.
Tips: Share your thought Process Clearly.
Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: A full depth project round was there. They asked my role and responsibility.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: An application was given to you and you have to make it better the way you can.
Skills: Technical Questions, Technical Analysis, Ability To Cope Up With Stress
College Name: IIT Madras
Skills evaluated in this interview
Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers
Microsoft Corporation
Naman Jain
posted on 2 Dec 2016
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016. There were 5 interview rounds.
Interview Questionnaire
1 Question
- Q1. Data structures
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Interview Preparation Tips
Round: Test
Experience: 3 coding questions.
Tips: Prepare data structures well
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 3
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: 2 coding questions on prem and paper.
Tips: Consider all test cases, provide comments on code
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Mostly checked problem solving skills, some questions regarding your project, operating systems
Tips: Be confident, try and get the hints provided
College Name: IIT Madras
Experience: 3 coding questions.
Tips: Prepare data structures well
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 3
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: 2 coding questions on prem and paper.
Tips: Consider all test cases, provide comments on code
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Mostly checked problem solving skills, some questions regarding your project, operating systems
Tips: Be confident, try and get the hints provided
College Name: IIT Madras
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