Kuliza Technologies Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: This was the resume shortlisting round. Almost all got shortlisted. And they don't care about the CGPA.

Round: Test
Experience: The first section consists of 10 aptitude questions that need to be solved in 25 minutes. These were the basic aptitude questions.

The second section consists 3 coding questions that need to be solved in 75 minutes. 1st problem was very easy. 2nd problem- Given a number in roman numeral convert it into decimal. It was an implementation problem. 3rd problem was from dynamic programming.

The third section contains the implementation of binary search and Fibonacci that needs debugging. There were 2 more general questions: 1st question was to write the names of startups and 2nd question was to write about the favorite programming language.
Tips: You should know basic algos and ds and it won't be difficult to qualify this round.
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 17

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This round went for an hour. Firstly he asked me to introduce him. He asked me about my projects that I have mentioned in my resume. Then he asked me about my internship projects in detail. He asked me that how I designed the database and how I built the architecture of the project.

Then he asked me to design a URL shortener, its database and how redirect will work.

Then I was asked to design the algorithms for different use cases that will work efficiently in designing the splitwise app(Money dividing app). These use cases were based on dfs and dfs+dp solution.
Tips: Again algo and ds are important. And mention only those things on your resume that you actually worked on and knows perfectly.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: This round went for half an hour. Firstly she asked me to introduce him. Then she asked me why I want to join Kuliza instead of a product based company. Asked me about my hobbies and motives. Discussion about my last internship. And asked me other general things.
Tips: You will be tricked several times. Be careful while answering the questions.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This round went for 20-25 minutes. First, he asked me the difference between Postgres and MySQL databases, as I have mentioned both of them in my resume.

Then he saw Nginx on my resume and asked where I used it and why. I told him everything that I did with Nginx like handling different web apps, integrating SSL certificates in its config and handling redirects between the staging server and production server.

Now he asked me simple algo question. -----/

The last question that he asked me was select_related in Django.
Tips: Again mention only those things on your resume that you actually worked on and knows perfectly.

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: This was the resume shortlisting round. Almost all got shortlisted. And they don't care about the CGPA.

Round: Test
Experience: The first section consists of 10 aptitude questions that need to be solved in 25 minutes. These were the basic aptitude questions.

The second section consists 3 coding questions that need to be solved in 75 minutes. 1st problem was very easy. 2nd problem- Given a number in roman numeral convert it into decimal. It was an implementation problem. 3rd problem was from dynamic programming.

The third section contains the implementation of binary search and Fibonacci that needs debugging. There were 2 more general questions: 1st question was to write the names of startups and 2nd question was to write about the favorite programming language.
Tips: You should know basic algos and ds and it won't be difficult to qualify this round.
Total Questions: 17

Round: Test
Experience: The first section consists of 10 aptitude questions that need to be solved in 25 minutes. These were the basic aptitude questions.

The second section consists 3 coding questions that need to be solved in 75 minutes. 1st problem was very easy. 2nd problem- Given a number in roman numeral convert it into decimal. It was an implementation problem. 3rd problem was from dynamic programming.

The third section contains the implementation of binary search and Fibonacci that needs debugging. There were 2 more general questions: 1st question was to write the names of startups and 2nd question was to write about the favorite programming language.
Tips: You should know basic algos and ds and it won't be difficult to qualify this round.