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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Software Development Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 17 Jul 2023

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Software Development Engineer Interview Experiences

1 interview found

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jun 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

There was a test on Hackerrank platform where they asked questions on computer fundamentals like OS, DBMS, CN, DSA etc, along with question on Aptitude (Around 15 MCQs were there in total).
In addition to this there were two coding questions one hard on easy, and there was also an SQL query to be written.

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell Me About Yourself, Explain the project, Question on basic Data Structures like Linked List. Also few on Graph
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself, Why should we hire you ?, Why do you want to join our company ?, Explain a situation where you had to overcome failure. etc

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I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Aug 2021. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Polyfills and Logical
  • Q2. List in react and the input box
  • Ans. 

    Answer on how to list in react and the input box

    • Use the map function to create a list in React

    • Use the state to store the input value

    • Use onChange event to update the state when the input value changes

    • Use onSubmit event to handle the form submission

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Learn basics of JS and ReactJs for frontend interview, git, css, scss, html etc

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell me abt your self

I applied via Recruitment Consultant and was interviewed in Dec 2020. There were 6 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. Basic questions on core java,java 8 features, multi threading.
  • Q2. Basic to advanced questions on Hibernate , SQL queries, spring
  • Q3. Questions on architecture,caching, design patterns

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare thoroughly on java,Hibernate,spring,
Prepare well for System design concepts like load balancing , api gateways,caching....

Software Developer Interview Questions & Answers

Chegg user image Yashwant Panchal

posted on 21 Nov 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Question on Linked list. array and string manipulation.

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. No any interview
  • Q2. It's aptitude test only

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - .Be prepared
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Jan 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Got 2 medium level DSA questions in the coding test

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Computer fundamentals
  • Q2. System Design Questions
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Oct 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Check if string is palindrome
  • Ans. 

    Check if a string is the same forwards and backwards

    • Iterate through the string from both ends and compare characters

    • Use built-in functions like reverse() to check for palindrome

    • Ignore spaces and punctuation when checking for palindrome

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Oct 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Basic question of javascript like temporal dead zone, hoisting
  • Q2. Basic of sql and mongo
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Logic bluiding question
  • Q2. 2 leet code quesztion
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Slaray negotiation
Interview experience
1
Bad
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. How to manage and configure postfix mail server.
  • Ans. 

    Postfix mail server can be managed and configured using configuration files and command line tools.

    • Edit the main configuration file /etc/postfix/main.cf to make changes to the server settings

    • Use postconf command to view or change configuration parameters

    • Restart the postfix service after making changes for them to take effect

    • Utilize tools like postmap to manage lookup tables for postfix

    • Monitor mail server logs for troub

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. OS go to maintenance mode, how to fix it.
  • Ans. 

    To fix an OS in maintenance mode, reboot the system, check for any recent changes or updates, run diagnostics, and restore from a backup if necessary.

    • Reboot the system to see if it resolves the issue

    • Check for any recent changes or updates that may have caused the OS to go into maintenance mode

    • Run diagnostics to identify any hardware or software issues

    • Restore the OS from a backup if needed

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Software Development Engineer interview?
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt interview process usually has 4 rounds. The most common rounds in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt interview process are Resume Shortlist, Aptitude Test and Technical.

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