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Updated 8 Jun 2024

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I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in May 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. What is your salary expectation

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - I wasted my time applying to this company because they hire based on your ethnicity. They prefer candidates from their own ethnic group.Do some research you will find this on your own.People should not waste their time and energy applying for such companies.The HRs and the Hiring managers clearly favor their own ethnicity.Although they claim to value diversity and inclusion,their hiring process tells a different story.

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I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Mar 2020. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Virtual Interview - 3 rounds same day [DS & Algo, Java, Architecture/Product]

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - It was good. Focus on problem solving and speed to clear 1st Round. Strong Java fundamentals upto Java 8,9 is enough to clear 2nd Round. Basic Design and Product Architecture knowledge can help clear the final round.

Believe yourself and keep working !!

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. How will you resolve a conflict arises between the members of the project you are currently working on?
  • Ans. 

    I will listen to both parties, identify the root cause, and facilitate a discussion to find a mutually agreeable solution.

    • Listen to both parties and understand their perspectives

    • Identify the root cause of the conflict

    • Facilitate a discussion to find a mutually agreeable solution

    • Encourage compromise and collaboration

    • Document the resolution and follow up to ensure it is implemented

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Give us instances where you adapted to situations quickly?
  • Ans. 

    I adapted quickly in various situations.

    • During my internship, I was assigned to a project that required me to learn a new programming language. I quickly adapted and was able to complete the project on time.

    • In my previous job, I was asked to take on additional responsibilities due to a colleague's sudden absence. I adapted quickly and was able to manage both my own tasks and the additional workload.

    • While working on a t...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. How do you feel about corporate environment?
  • Ans. 

    I am comfortable in a corporate environment and appreciate the structure and opportunities for growth.

    • I appreciate the clear expectations and guidelines provided in a corporate environment.

    • I value the opportunities for professional development and advancement.

    • I understand the importance of teamwork and collaboration in achieving company goals.

    • I am comfortable with the hierarchical structure and reporting relationships

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Pattern: both MCQ’s and descriptive type. Cannot remember about the marking and cut-off’s as he had to write a lot of tests during that time. 18-19 students were shortlisted for interviews. MCQ questions were mostly the ones asked in CAT exam consisting of English and logical reasoning. Few of them were related to programming. Descriptive questions included writing a program in C language.
Duration: 60 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: There were 2 rounds of technical interview. 

In first round, technical questions were asked in BTP. The project was Power aware compilers. A few HR related questions were also asked.In second round, technical questions were asked on C programming. Questions were related to Basic Data Structuring. Asked to choose a favourite course and conceptual questions were asked from it. Choose a minor course as favourite one.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Third round was HR round. All the students who reached to this round were selected.Overall 9 students were selected by the company.

General Tips: starting earlier would have definitely help.
Skill Tips: Performance in the previous rounds is the main criteria.
College Name: IIT MADRAS

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. All standard HR questions will be asked
  • Q2. Write the code for printing a matrix in spiral order
  • Ans. 

    Code to print a matrix in spiral order

    • Create four variables to keep track of the boundaries of the matrix

    • Loop through the matrix in a spiral order and print each element

    • Adjust the boundaries of the matrix after each loop iteration

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Situation based questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: The aptitude questions are very basic level and doesn't take more than 20 min. Coding question is also very easy if you get the basics of C language right.
Tips: Practice writing online coding tests as passing all the test cases is the main part where we'll have a problem. Although you get the code right, concentrate on the various test cases they may check and put your variables and output accordingly. For example, our test cases involved large values so I have to choose a double int data type instead to int. This came out of trail and error as we donot know the test case.
Duration: 75 minutes
Total Questions: 31

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Questions like Why into software from Mech? will be asked.
Tips: Be talkative!! Answer all the questions confidently. Slight preparation will help, but donot reproduce exactly what you have prepared.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The interviewer will help if you are stuck. I could solve it but didn't write the complete code. Also some simple puzzles are asked.
Tips: Get basics of C good, atleast upto pointers.

Round: Behavorial Interview
Experience: Questions like give me a situation where you did a job you didn't like. The interview went well. Interviewers were friendly.
Tips: Don't give premeditated answers. Talk fluently and confidently. Make it a conversation rather than a Q/A

General Tips: Confidence is the key for any interview.You may reduce your chances if your approach for a puzzle is wrong. So think before you start solving.
Skill Tips: ""
Skills: Aptitude, Coding (C language basics), Communication
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: Good pay, Good location, not much technical knowledge required

Skills evaluated in this interview

Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

Target user image B . Vishnu Bhargav

posted on 31 Aug 2015

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Quant was easy , you can do all of it . just go through the indiabix or some website before going to the exam.Coding section was also easy , just brush up your basics of C thats enough , none of the high fundae DSA was asked .
Tips: - geeksforgeeks.com  contains almost everything about coding  you need for getting placed .- if you are done with it start coding in codechef .
Duration: 1 hr minute

Skill Tips: Focus on your Study.. Revise the subject that you have studied at the time of Interview
Skills: Technical Skills
College Name: IIT Madras

Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

Target user image Saketh Ram Reddy M

posted on 14 Jan 2015

Interview Questionnaire 

14 Questions

  • Q1. Why do you want to come to Software profile when you studied Chemical Engineering?
  • Ans. 

    I realized my passion for coding during my Chemical Engineering studies and pursued it further through self-learning and projects.

    • Discovered passion for coding during Chemical Engineering studies

    • Pursued coding through self-learning and projects

    • Believe software engineering offers more opportunities for growth and impact

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Future Plans?
  • Q3. Weaknesses?
  • Q4. Name a situation where you planned something but due to some other problems you have to adjust in the end?
  • Ans. 

    While planning a project, I had to adjust the timeline due to unexpected delays in the delivery of hardware components.

    • Planned a project with a specific timeline

    • Ordered necessary hardware components

    • Delivery of hardware components was delayed

    • Adjusted the timeline to accommodate the delay

    • Ensured that the project was completed successfully despite the delay

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. Name a situation where you had to change your behaviour according to situation?
  • Ans. 

    During a team project, I adjusted my communication style to better collaborate with a team member.

    • I noticed that my team member preferred more frequent check-ins and updates than I was used to.

    • I adapted by scheduling regular meetings and sending progress updates more frequently.

    • This helped us work more effectively together and complete the project on time.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q6. Name a situation where you had to deal with 2-3 different groups?
  • Ans. 

    As a project lead, I had to coordinate with the development, testing, and design teams to ensure timely delivery of a product.

    • Coordinated with development team to ensure timely completion of coding tasks

    • Worked with testing team to ensure proper testing and bug fixing

    • Collaborated with design team to ensure product met client's expectations

  • Answered by AI
  • Q7. Name a situation where you were part of group and made difference?
  • Ans. 

    I led a team to develop a new feature for our company's flagship product.

    • Identified the need for the feature through customer feedback

    • Convinced the team and management to prioritize the feature

    • Coordinated with designers, developers, and testers to deliver the feature on time

    • Received positive feedback from customers and increased revenue for the company

  • Answered by AI
  • Q8. Name a situation where you took an initiative?
  • Ans. 

    I initiated a project to automate the testing process for our team.

    • Identified the need for automation to save time and improve accuracy

    • Researched and evaluated different testing tools

    • Presented the proposal to the team and got their buy-in

    • Implemented the automation process and trained the team on its usage

  • Answered by AI
  • Q9. Give an experience of working as part of a team?
  • Ans. 

    Worked as part of a team in developing a mobile application.

    • Collaborated with team members to define project requirements

    • Assigned tasks and tracked progress using project management tools

    • Conducted code reviews and provided feedback to team members

    • Resolved conflicts and ensured timely delivery of project milestones

  • Answered by AI
  • Q10. Name situation where you had to prepare for a speech for a special group of people?
  • Ans. 

    Prepared a speech for a group of high school students on the importance of computer science.

    • Researched the audience to understand their interests and level of knowledge

    • Created an engaging presentation with relatable examples

    • Practiced the speech multiple times to ensure smooth delivery

    • Encouraged questions and feedback from the audience

    • Provided additional resources for those interested in pursuing computer science

  • Answered by AI
  • Q11. Focussed more about my 3rd year intern where I developed an application using VBA for STP
  • Q12. Questions about Android and e-commerce
  • Q13. Then asked about my football interests(I said to him I am football blogger), so asked me to explain few articles which I wrote
  • Q14. All about my resume, my BTP

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I alotted around 3-4 days for Resume Preparation. This is very important step,especially for companies with Consultancy profile. I referred to some of my seniors resumes to get to know the format and the grammar used,especially framing of sentences.
Tips: Once your resume is prepared, don't forget to collect feedback about it from your seniors and even from some of your wing mates. Also, get to know about difference between resumes for core and non-core profiles

Round: Test
Experience: First Section was simple aptitude(20 Question),were very simple.Second Section was Programming(10 questions), were bit questions related to theory. Don't remember properly but few questions related to Binary tree were asked I guessThird section was Coding(1 question),it was simple. Question-Code a program which gives output as '1' when the number given as input can be expressed as "p^q"(where p,q are integers) and as '0' if otherwise.
Tips: Just,general CAT preparation is enough for aptitude.Regarding Coding, even knowing any 1 language is enough. Just practice few basic coding questions online and even sorting algorithms
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 31

Round: Interview
Experience: The HR interview was not easy, some of the questions were really unexpected. Such type of HR questions were not asked in any of previous HR interviews(of other companies) I attended to.
Tips: For most of the questions asked above, you can find answers from your P.O.R's(Position of Responsibilities) which you have done.Take HR round seriously and prepare for it before placements start(avoid last minute preparation).

Round: Interview
Experience: This was very comfortable, I connected very well with interviewer,especially when we were discussing about footbal as he was also a football enthusiast. I also prepared few things related to e-commerce which helped
Tips: Prepare and get to know about e-commerce field, general problems faced in it these days

Round: Interview
Experience: Was easy
Tips: Just prepare properly about everything written in resume,mainly 3rd year intern and BTP or any other projects

General Tips: Just follow all the tips mentioned earlier,avoid last minute preparation, prepare well in advance. Don't lose hope or get depressed during placement period if you fail in your initial few interviews
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: Wanted to work in a coding or analytics profile

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Relatively easy for anyone with programming experience.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Easy again. Anyone who has background in programming should be able to clear it.

Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: This is what the company is looking for the most. They want to select only candidates that match their company value.
Tips: Soft skills play an important role.

Skills: Programming, Soft skills
College Name: IIT BOMBAY
Motivation: The company gave a presentation about them and their work culture. Seemed very good.

I appeared for an interview before Dec 2020.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

There were 2 coding questions given in this round. One was related to Dynamic Programming and the second one was related to Recursion and Number Theory.

  • Q1. 

    House Robber Problem Statement

    Mr. X is a professional robber with a plan to rob houses arranged in a circular street. Each house has a certain amount of money hidden, separated by a security system that ...

  • Ans. 

    House Robber problem where a robber wants to maximize stolen money without robbing adjacent houses in a circular street.

    • Use dynamic programming to keep track of maximum stolen money at each house.

    • Consider two cases: either rob the current house and skip the next, or skip the current house.

    • Handle circular arrangement by considering the first and last houses separately.

    • Example: For arr[] = {2, 3, 2}, the output is 3. Rob...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 

    Nth Fibonacci Number Problem Statement

    Calculate the Nth term in the Fibonacci sequence, where the sequence is defined as follows: F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2), with initial conditions F(1) = F(2) = 1.

    Input:

    ...
  • Ans. 

    Calculate the Nth Fibonacci number efficiently using dynamic programming.

    • Use dynamic programming to store and reuse previously calculated Fibonacci numbers.

    • Start with base cases F(1) and F(2) as 1, then calculate subsequent Fibonacci numbers.

    • Optimize the solution to avoid redundant calculations by storing intermediate results.

    • Time complexity can be reduced to O(N) using dynamic programming.

    • Example: For N = 5, the 5th F

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Face to Face 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 50 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Standard Data Structures and Algorithms round where I was given 2 questions to solve , one was from Linked List and the other was related to Priority Queue / Quick Sort .

  • Q1. 

    Intersection of Linked Lists Problem Statement

    You are provided with two linked lists, L1 and L2, both sorted in ascending order. Generate a new linked list containing elements that exist in both linked l...

  • Ans. 

    Given two sorted linked lists, find the intersection of elements in both lists and return a new sorted linked list.

    • Traverse both linked lists simultaneously to find common elements

    • Create a new linked list to store the intersecting elements

    • Ensure the final linked list is sorted in ascending order

    • Handle cases where there are no common elements between the lists

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 

    Kth Largest Element Problem Statement

    Ninja enjoys working with numbers, and Alice challenges him to find the Kth largest value from a given list of numbers.

    Input:

    The first line contains an integer 'T...
  • Ans. 

    Find the Kth largest element in a given list of numbers.

    • Sort the array in descending order.

    • Return the Kth element from the sorted array.

    • Handle multiple test cases efficiently.

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - Face to Face 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 50 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This round majorly focused on Real life appications of Data Structures and also revolved around Object Oriented Programming Style of writing code .

  • Q1. 

    Data Structure with Insert, Delete, and GetRandom Operations

    Design a data structure that supports four operations: insert an element, remove an element, search for an element, and get a random element. E...

  • Ans. 

    Design a data structure with insert, delete, search, and getRandom operations, all in constant time.

    • Use a combination of HashMap and ArrayList to achieve constant time operations.

    • For insert operation, add the element to the ArrayList and store its index in the HashMap.

    • For delete operation, swap the element to be deleted with the last element in the ArrayList, update the index in the HashMap, and then remove the last el...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 

    LRU Cache Design Question

    Design a data structure for a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache that supports the following operations:

    1. get(key) - Return the value of the key if it exists in the cache; otherw...

  • Ans. 

    Design a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache data structure that supports get and put operations with capacity constraint.

    • Implement a doubly linked list to maintain the order of keys based on their recent usage.

    • Use a hashmap to store key-value pairs for quick access.

    • When capacity is reached, evict the least recently used item before inserting a new item.

    • Update the position of a key in the linked list whenever it is accesse

  • Answered by AI
Round 4 - Face to Face 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 45 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round was inclined towards some Low Level Design Principles and some concepts from Java .

  • Q1. Design a Railway Reservation System.
  • Ans. 

    Design a Railway Reservation System

    • Create a database to store train schedules, seat availability, and passenger information

    • Implement a user interface for users to search for trains, book tickets, and view their reservations

    • Include features like seat selection, payment processing, and ticket confirmation

    • Handle scenarios like waitlisting, cancellations, and refunds

    • Ensure data security and privacy of passenger information

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Why is Java considered platform-independent while the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is platform-dependent?
  • Ans. 

    Java is platform-independent because the code is compiled into bytecode that can run on any platform with a JVM, which is platform-dependent due to its reliance on the underlying hardware and operating system.

    • Java code is compiled into bytecode, which can run on any platform with a JVM.

    • JVM acts as an interpreter that translates bytecode into machine code specific to the underlying hardware and operating system.

    • The JVM ...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPAWalmart interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Aptitude, OOPSTime required to prepare for the interview - 3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.
Tip 3 : Do at-least 2 good projects and you must know every bit of them.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

I appeared for an interview before Dec 2020.

Round 1 - Face to Face 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 90 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This Round was DS and Algo round and it started with formal introduction, followed by 2 problems. We first dicussed the approach the time complexity and proper code covering all cases.

  • Q1. 

    Minimum Cost to Buy Oranges Problem Statement

    You are given a bag of capacity 'W' kg and a list 'cost' of costs for packets of oranges with different weights. Each element at the i-th position in the list...

  • Ans. 

    Find the minimum cost to buy a specific weight of oranges using given cost list.

    • Iterate through the cost list and find the minimum cost to achieve the desired weight

    • Keep track of the minimum cost while considering available packet weights

    • Return -1 if it is not possible to buy exactly W kg of oranges

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 

    K - Sum Path In A Binary Tree

    Given a binary tree where each node contains an integer value, and a value 'K', your task is to find all the paths in the binary tree such that the sum of the node values in ...

  • Ans. 

    Find all paths in a binary tree where the sum of node values equals a given value 'K'.

    • Traverse the binary tree using DFS and keep track of the current path and its sum.

    • At each node, check if the current sum equals 'K' and add the path to the result if true.

    • Continue traversal to the left and right child nodes recursively.

    • Return the list of paths that sum up to 'K'.

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Face to Face 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 40 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round majorly focused on puzzles and some questions revolving around Computer Networks and the projects in my resume .

  • Q1. You have two wires of different lengths that take different times to burn. How can you measure a specific amount of time using these two wires?
  • Ans. 

    Use two wires of different lengths to measure a specific amount of time by burning them simultaneously.

    • Burn both wires at the same time, one wire will burn faster than the other.

    • Measure the time it takes for the faster burning wire to completely burn.

    • Calculate the specific amount of time by using the ratio of the lengths of the two wires.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. You have 3 ants located at the corners of a triangle. The challenge is to determine the movement pattern of the ants if they all start moving towards each other. What will be the outcome?
Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This is a cultural fitment testing round .HR was very frank and asked standard questions. Then we discussed about my role.

  • Q1. What do you know about the company?
  • Q2. Why should we hire you?

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPAWalmart interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Puzzles, OOPSTime required to prepare for the interview - 3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.
Tip 3 : Do at-least 2 good projects and you must know every bit of them.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview Preparation Tips

General Tips: It's not a World Cup final and you're not Tendulkar. So relax, you don't have the burden of a nation's expectation on you. If you've managed to understand the fundamentals of algorithms, data structures, OS etc., cracking interviews shouldn't be hard. If you've not, then I guess you need at least a couple of months of intense preparation.
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL

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