Iolite Technologies Associate Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Quant Topics: Interests, Sequence and Series along with Missing items, Time and Distance/Work,
Verbal Topics: Comprehension, Corrections, Grammar etc
CS Core Subjects: DSA, OOPS, DBMS, OS

Overall Test Difficulty was Easy-Medium

System asked to choose one of the programming languages from C, C++ or Java. (Note: You can't change the language once confirmed!)
There were 7 different coding questions along with code. You just need to debug the code to get the correct output.
DSA: Graphs (Basics), Linked Lists, Conditional Statements, and Arrays (Stack and Queue)

Overall Difficulty was Medium (tbh, it depends on the practice you have done!)

Q1. 1. Tell me about yourself 2. What tech stack(s) you have worked on? Why? Why not others? 3. SQL queries based on joins, nesting and aggregations 4. Logical reasoning questions 5. Previous internships exper...read more
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Q1. 1. Tell me about yourself 2. Why you do seek to join this company? 3. Are you comfortable working in shifts? If yes, how will you manage your time? 4. SQL queries 5. Logical question: Total number of squar...read more
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Q1. 1. Tell me about your day. Walk me through it. 2. If given a coding problem, what is your preferred language? Why? 3. Walk me through your best project in your resume. Why/How/When did you make it? 4. Tell...read more
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Q1. Oops qns most (java c++)
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Q2. Recursion (java c++) 30 qns 30 min basic alll programming related
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Array string easy to medium

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Q1. About the 3 coding problem scope of improvement and project
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Round 1 was divided into 2 parts:
1) Aptitude and Technical MCQs
2) Coding Test

Q1. The technical round was mainly based on the resume. Prepare the skills and projects mentioned in your resume thoroughly. Luck plays a significant factor in clearing the technical round
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Q1. Usual HR questions like 'Mention your strengths and weaknesses'
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Q1. General behavioural questions
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Q2. Weaknesses and strengths
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Q3. Why choose LSEG
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An IQ test in MCQ format. We were given small math problems and analytical/logical questions

Q1. OOP concepts and examples from your coding experience
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OOP concepts like inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism are essential in software development.
• Inheritance: Creating subclasses that inherit properties and behaviors from a parent class.

• Encapsulation: Bundling data and methods within a class to restrict access from outside.

• Polymorphism: Objects of different classes can be treated as objects of a common superclass.

• Example: Creating a class 'Animal' with subclasses
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Q2. What data structures are good for certain scenarios
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Different data structures are suitable for different scenarios based on their characteristics and operations.
• Arrays are good for storing a collection of elements with constant time access to individual elements.

• Linked lists are good for frequent insertions and deletions at any position in the list.

• Hash tables are good for fast lookups and insertions based on key-value pairs.

• Trees are good for hierarchical data represen...read more
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Q3. Whiteboard questions to write pseudo codes to solve some problems
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Had a discussion with the Head of technology and head of engineering. Asked general behavioural questions and technical questions