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Updated 19 Apr 2024

HARMAN Senior Manager Interview Experiences

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

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Oct 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Challenges faced
  • Q2. Process followed
Round 2 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Overview on software product
  • Q2. Cloud deployments, cloud services
  • Q3. Combination of team and improvements suggested
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Process followed and changes
  • Ans. 

    Implemented streamlined processes and led successful changes to improve efficiency and productivity.

    • Analyzed current processes to identify inefficiencies

    • Developed and implemented new processes to streamline operations

    • Led change management efforts to ensure successful adoption by team members

    • Monitored and evaluated the effectiveness of the changes implemented

    • Provided training and support to team members to ensure smooth

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Daily challenges faced in the project
Round 4 - One-on-one 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Reason for change to be mentioned
  • Q2. What kind of challenged faced
  • Q3. Escalation management and how its executed
  • Ans. 

    Escalation management involves identifying, prioritizing, and resolving issues that require higher-level intervention.

    • Escalation management is a process of identifying issues that cannot be resolved at lower levels and escalating them to higher authorities.

    • It involves setting clear criteria for when an issue should be escalated, such as severity, impact, or time sensitivity.

    • Effective communication is key in escalation ...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - prepare well they expect technical understanding

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Nov 2020. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. What is the biggest failure in your career so far.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - It must be answer like this:
I don't have any failure, the task which didn't meet all its objective or purpose are biggest learning lessons for me. And that itself can be one goal achieved. Trying the same task with past learning will not only achieve the goals but even more value addition to it.

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
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I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before May 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Leadership style questions
  • Q2. Focus on Philips values
  • Q3. Customer centricity?
  • Q4. Team up to win questuons
  • Ans. 

    Teamwork is essential for success in any organization. Collaborating with team members to achieve common goals is key.

    • Effective communication is crucial for successful teamwork

    • Assigning roles and responsibilities based on team members' strengths

    • Encouraging open dialogue and feedback among team members

    • Recognizing and celebrating team achievements

    • Resolving conflicts and addressing issues promptly

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Go through Philips values and build use case around it
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Design a file storage system
  • Ans. 

    A scalable and secure file storage system design

    • Utilize cloud storage for scalability and accessibility

    • Implement encryption for data security

    • Use redundancy and backups to prevent data loss

    • Organize files in a hierarchical structure for easy retrieval

    • Implement access controls to restrict unauthorized access

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: First round was a written test which had 20 MCQ's in the field of Databases, Theory of computation, Operating systems, Data Structures and Algorithms and one programming question. 7 students (4 B.Tech, 3 M.Tech) got through to the interviews. Most of the interviews were held in the Google Bangalore campus. There were a total of 5 rounds of interviews. All based on Data Structures and Algorithms. Each round had 2 questions for which we were usually supposed to explain the algorithm first and then write the code on a Google doc.  It was a really great experience. I got a chance to visit both Google Bangalore and Hyderabad campuses and taste their awesome food.
Total Questions: 20

General Tips: Practice your coding skills. Writing a neat code is very important. Interviewers not just look for a good algorithm but also your coding style (indentation, variable names, simplicity etc.)
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL

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Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Google's APAC test is an online coding round. The test is for 3 hours and it has 4 coding questions.
Duration: 180 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I had 3 technical interviews. The questions asked in them consisted of algorithmic coding and design questions. The approach was more stressed upon. The interviewers were very helpful and they were generous in throw hints whenever I was blocked.

Skills: Algorithmic coding , C++
College Name: IIT BOMBAY

Interview Questionnaire 

13 Questions

  • Q1. Given a source array of integers with possible duplicates and a target integer, write algorithm to find out 2 numbers in source array whose sum is equal to target integer
  • Ans. 

    Algorithm to find 2 numbers in an array whose sum is equal to a target integer

    • Use a hash table to store the difference between target and each element in the array

    • Iterate through the array and check if the current element exists in the hash table

    • Return the pair of elements that sum up to the target integer

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Say you have three tables WORK, USERS, MANAGERS WORK - work_id - user_id - how_much USERS - user_id - team MANAGERS - manager_id - team If I am a manager, write a select statement to retrieve the work o...
  • Ans. 

    Write a select statement to retrieve work of all users who belong to my team.

    • Join USERS and WORK tables on user_id

    • Join MANAGERS and USERS tables on team

    • Filter by manager_id

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. In a Chrome extension, which file contains the most important information of the extension like version, pattern matches, etc
  • Ans. 

    The manifest.json file contains the most important information of a Chrome extension.

    • The manifest.json file includes the version number, permissions, content scripts, background scripts, and other important details.

    • It is located in the root directory of the extension.

    • It is required for all Chrome extensions.

    • Example: "manifest_version": 2, "version": "1.0", "permissions": ["tabs", "storage"]

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. There are three rooms, and there are Princess, Flowers and Snake in those rooms. The doors of all the rooms have incorrect nameplates. i.e., the nameplate for the princess’ room is not Princess. Similarly,...
  • Q5. Which is faster: finding an item in a hashtable or in a sorted list? And Why?
  • Ans. 

    Hashtable is faster for finding an item than a sorted list.

    • Hashtable has constant time complexity O(1) for finding an item.

    • Sorted list has logarithmic time complexity O(log n) for finding an item.

    • Hashtable uses hashing to directly access the item's location.

    • Sorted list requires binary search to find the item's location.

    • Hashtable is ideal for large datasets with frequent lookups.

    • Sorted list is ideal for datasets that re

  • Answered by AI
  • Q6. What are some of the most popular Data interchange formats when using APIs
  • Ans. 

    JSON and XML are the most popular data interchange formats when using APIs.

    • JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight format that is easy to read and write. It is widely used in web APIs.

    • XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a more complex format that is also widely used in web APIs.

    • Other formats include CSV (Comma Separated Values), YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language), and Protocol Buffers.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q7. Name some popular APIs for each of these Social Commerce service(llike a photo service etc)
  • Ans. 

    Popular APIs for Social Commerce services

    • Facebook Graph API for social media integration

    • Instagram API for photo sharing and tagging

    • Twitter API for real-time updates and customer engagement

    • Pinterest API for product discovery and sharing

    • Google Maps API for location-based services

    • PayPal API for secure payment processing

  • Answered by AI
  • Q8. How would you change the format of all the phone numbers in 1000 static html pages?
  • Ans. 

    Use a script to iterate through each HTML page, locate phone numbers, and update their format.

    • Write a script using a programming language like Python or JavaScript to iterate through each HTML page

    • Use regular expressions to locate phone numbers in the pages

    • Update the format of the phone numbers as needed (e.g. adding country code, changing separators)

    • Save the updated HTML pages with the new phone number format

  • Answered by AI
  • Q9. If you had an opportunity to design the Google Suggest system, please let us know how you would approach it and how you would execute the plan in terms of settings up systems like(data stores or databases,...
  • Ans. 

    Designing Google Suggest system

    • I would start by analyzing user search patterns and frequently searched keywords

    • Then, I would create a database of these keywords and their associated search results

    • I would use indexing services to quickly retrieve relevant results for each keyword

    • I would also implement machine learning algorithms to improve the accuracy of suggestions over time

  • Answered by AI
  • Q10. How do you find out if a number is a power of 2? And how do you know if it is an odd number? Write code in the language of your choice
  • Ans. 

    Check if a number is a power of 2 and odd.

    • To check if a number is a power of 2, use bitwise AND operator with the number and its predecessor. If the result is 0, it is a power of 2.

    • To check if a number is odd, use modulus operator with 2. If the result is 1, it is odd.

    • Example code in Python:

    • def is_power_of_two(num):

    • return num & (num - 1) == 0

    • def is_odd(num):

    • return num % 2 == 1

  • Answered by AI
  • Q11. How will improve the revenue of the cafeteria of the office.
  • Ans. 

    By introducing new menu items, optimizing pricing strategy, and improving the overall dining experience.

    • Conduct a survey to understand the preferences of employees

    • Introduce healthy and affordable meal options

    • Offer discounts for bulk orders or loyalty programs

    • Partner with local vendors to source fresh ingredients

    • Improve the ambiance and seating arrangements

    • Implement online ordering and delivery services

  • Answered by AI
  • Q12. [Actual question which i screwed up. Bad Time for me]Number of users in 2001 for adwords, chrome, gmail, android and picassa are in the ratio of 6:9:14:13:8, and in 2004 we add 3 lakh more users. New rati...
  • Q13. In google adwords there are about 30 million ads from 42 lanuages . What will I do review the ads and reject ads that do not comply with specific rules
  • Ans. 

    Reviewing 30 million ads from 42 languages in Google AdWords and rejecting non-compliant ads requires a systematic approach.

    • Create a set of specific rules and guidelines for ad compliance

    • Use automated tools to filter out ads that violate the rules

    • Assign a team of reviewers to manually check the remaining ads

    • Ensure that the reviewers are fluent in the languages of the ads they are reviewing

    • Regularly update the rules and...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: I was asked to take the test at 8.30 pm. They fixed this test, a week back. Nobody will call you to remind you to take test. Nor the interviewer will call you. It is your responsibility to check ur mail without fail. On that day I was expecting a call from google from evening till 8.25 pm. None called me. I thought that they would have forgot that. I planned to do go out and have food. But suddenly my ipad gave a alert message and it was from gmail app [thanks for ipad, or else i would not have checked my mail in lap top]. It was from google recruiter. The mail stated that he has shared a doc with me and i must answer the questions in it. a google drive link was given. he mentioned that the test was for 2 hours. I was asked to type answers just below each of these questions.
Duration: 120 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Since I had prepared for tech interviews like amazon, I was able to do it good.After a week I got a call from HR and informed that I cleared the first round. Then after two days I was told that i will have a telephonic interview with one of the google developers from adwords team . They scheduled a telephonic interview the next week

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 1) How will improve the revenue of the cafeteria of the office. Lots of discussions went and i think, i really did that well.
2)[Actual question which i screwed up. Bad Time for me]
Number of users in 2001 for adwords, chrome, gmail, android and picassa are in the ratio of 6:9:14:13:8, and in 2004 we add 3 lakh more users. New ratio is 8:12:13:11:6. Number of picassa users in 2004= 1,44,000. Calculate number of adwords users in 2005.A basic math question that, even a school student can solve. But in that tension i was not able to do it. I took some time and finally gave him a answer. I myself knew that it would be wrong. But interviewer said great lets move on to next question[just to boost up me - good person].My actual job role revolves around developing tools for the the ad review team which will review the ad and reject illlegal ones. So third question was related to that .He told me that as I am from a tech background, I need to explain him technically wat will I do. He also said that he did not need the actual solution. They will just see the way I approach the problem. That an existing problem and they are open to suggestions.3)In google adwords there are about 30 million ads from 42 lanuages . What will I do review the ads and reject ads that do not comply with specific rules .Regarding the criteria under which google bans a ad as illegal – I discussed about different criteria .Out of the criteria’s i told , he asked me to consider only three criteria .
a) Link not working
b) Drug related ads
c) trademarks[trademark used by the companies]I gave lot of approaches like for link not workinga) designing a autobot which will automatically click ads link and check whether it is redirecting to correct page or not . Autobots are used by hackers to get money for the ads they posted . I suggested that by designing similar autobot we can validate the link.b) to check drug related ads -
To detect the language we can first check the geographic location from which the ad is getting posted and can narrow down to some less choices from which we can detect the language
i suggested him that we can create a trie which some specific keywords (like coccaine ) and do pattern matching with that and reject the add it contains any of the works in trie .The interviewer gave me another constraint wat if there comes a ad “coccaine rehabilitation center” we should reject those kind of ads na . thats for a good cause . So i suggested him that i can maintain another set of trie which can contain those set of keywords.Fist check trie1 if drug related keywords exist .
Next check trie 2 if other types of keyword exist.
– if keyword only present in trie1 [reject ad]
– if both tire return true [can reject . but its better that those ad's alone can be subjected to manual evaluation for rejection].I used trie as it can do the pattern matches faster .For trademarks also I discussed using similar datastructures and the interviewer was ok with my answer.

General Tips: I applied for a job in Google jobs page. I know that its very difficult that a resume gets noticed by google.Suddenly one fine day i got a call from Google HR saying that they are interested in my profile and asked me if, i was ready to go with the interview process[Come on! who will say no for Google]. I was surprised.I was asked to take a initial screen test [Online test].
Skills: data structure, Algorithm
College Name: na

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Why not MS?

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: It was constituted of two parts: Logic and DI. Both parts were simple. Questions were CAT type.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Simple C, C++ questions were asked. Technical questions based on internship project were asked. General questions asked to check reaction to sudden stress (for example: Why do earthquakes occur?).
Tips: Courses like DSP (application based) and information systems should be thorough. Knowing 1 programming language is very essential.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Resume based questions were asked.
Tips: Know complete details of your interns, BTP and resume thoroughly.

College Name: IIT KANPUR

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. A pseudo code or solution(if you can) for solving the rubik's cube
  • Ans. 

    A solution for solving the Rubik's cube

    • Use the layer-by-layer method

    • Solve the first layer cross

    • Solve the first layer corners

    • Solve the second layer

    • Solve the third layer cross

    • Solve the third layer corners

    • Orient the third layer corners

    • Permute the third layer corners

    • Permute the third layer edges

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Interview
Experience: A systematic approach is all what he expects from us. Our approach and our way of thinking is what he observes. An algorithm to solve a single face worked in my case. So called HR interview was more technical and a discussion about the projects mentioned in my resume.
Tips: An overview on problems like sudoku, rubik's cube, chess etc. A proper approach and a structure for solving the problem should be mentioned.

Round: Interview
Experience: Some questions on basic data structures, dynamic programming and recursion.
Tips: Recognize the problem(dp, recursion, etc.). Throw some algorithm.

General Tips: Be clear with basics.
Skill Tips: ""
Skills: Data structures, Data Processing, Recursion
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: SAMSUNG!
Funny Moments: A saviour for the leftover cse students especially b.tech and dual. It does not depend on whether your interview went well or not. Just basic cse stuff is enough.

Interview Questionnaire 

6 Questions

  • Q1. Questions on routing protocols and CDMA
  • Q2. Questions based on the previous day's coding test
  • Q3. A small portion of the questions were centered on their current projects
  • Q4. Scholastic achievements
  • Q5. Preference of location
  • Ans. 

    I am open to working in any location as long as the job is challenging and rewarding.

    • Open to relocation

    • Prioritize job satisfaction over location

    • Flexible with work arrangements

  • Answered by AI
  • Q6. Further studies

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Objective test in C(30 min),followed by a paper-based coding test.(1 hour, Written ).
Tips: There are old Samsung tests available online. The questions are based on the same fundamentals.Coding test focuses more on getting the pseudo code and logic right
Duration: 90 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Interview questions were mostly based on projects and skills mentioned in the resume.Be sure to read up on your projects.They asked to explain the code.On the lines of how would I approach the problem of getting faster downloads in cellphones.

General Tips: I got selected because of my projects fit the profile they were looking for. They seemed to like the Olympiad ranks too.Data structures and algorithms basic fundaes, C coding and theory (asked in every profile), Revision of your electives (depending the core specialization)For any communication profile, do not ignore revision of courses and also it was necessary to read up
further as MTechs and MS students have an edge.
Skill Tips: Went through all the literature for all my projects.My courses and projects were all related to Communication Networks and Communication Systems. This background made the questions easier to answer. Majority of questions were about network protocols and network architecture.Started preparing DS&A at the beginning of seventh sem because I had never taken the course. The rest of it can be revised a couple of weeks before the tests start.
Skills: Algorithm, C Programming, Communication Networks, Communication Systems, Network protocols, Network architecture.
College Name: IIT Madras

HARMAN Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in HARMAN Senior Manager interview?
HARMAN interview process usually has 4 rounds. The most common rounds in the HARMAN interview process are One-on-one Round and Technical.
How to prepare for HARMAN Senior Manager 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 HARMAN. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at HARMAN expect are Automation, Claims, Due Diligence, Staffing and Automotive.
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