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Updated 16 Sep 2021

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Software Developer Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 16 Sep 2021

I was interviewed before Sep 2020.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round (3 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

  • Q1. Check If The String Is A Palindrome You are given a string 'S'. Your task is to check whether the string is palindrome or not. For checking palindrome, ...read more
  • Q2. Square Root (Integral) Given a number N, find its square root. You need to find and print only the integral part of square root of N. For eg. if number given is...read more
  • Q3. Min Steps to one using DP You are given a positive integer 'N’. Your task is to find and return the minimum number of steps that 'N' has to take to ...read more
2

Video Call Round (3 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

They started Fundamentals of OOP- Inheritance, Polymorphism

  • Q1. SQL Qusestions

    SQL queries (basic, nested, and the on containing where,having,group by,order by, like, etc..)
    SQL Joins, and which is the fastest?
    DDL vs DML

  • Q2. OS Questions

    What are the benefits of a multiprocessor system?
    Explain demand paging?
    What is virtual memory?
    deadlock

  • Q3. Maximum Subarray Sum Given an array of numbers, find the maximum sum of any contiguous subarray of the array. For example, given the array [34, -50, 42, 14, -5,...read more
3

HR Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Some people had two HR interviews but I only had one and interview went up till 11:30 pm and you get only 5-10 minutes to prepare for HR on Zoom

  • Q1. Basic HR Questions

    Do you have any regrets?

    How do you respond to change?

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteria7 cgpaMasterCard interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - DBMS, Data Structures and Algorithms , OOP, Maths puzzles, Aptitude , CN, OSTime required to prepare for the interview - 5 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Solve atleast 200 problems
Tip 2 : Focus on all data structures 
Tip 3 : Build some good projects

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Keep it precise and concise.
Tip 2 : Build your resume yourself according your skills

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

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Software Developer Interview Questions

Visa user image Anonymous

posted on 12 Mar 2024

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

I applied via Campus Placement

4 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

One medium and one standard DP question

2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Medium level question based on binary search
3

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Design google-pay
  • Q2. HLD of recursive
4

HR Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Puzzles available on GFG
  • Q2. Behavioral question

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - be good in DSA, system design, projects, puzzles

Skills evaluated in this interview

Software Developer Interview Questions

Paytm user image likhith kumar

posted on 14 Oct 2024

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Two questions on dynamic programming

2

Aptitude Test Round

This was a behavioural round and was completely non technical

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 4-6 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Aug 2023.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Map question with frequency in a vector

2

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Discussion on the test plus a logical puzzle also

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Take your bet

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in May 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Core java , Collections , Exception Handing , searching and sorting code,scenario based questions.
Be strong in your basics

Skills evaluated in this interview

I was interviewed before Sep 2020.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Nice environment

  • Q1. Zig Zag Traversal You have been given a Binary Tree of 'N' nodes, where the nodes have integer values. Your task is to print the zigzag traversal of the...read more
2

Face to Face Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Nice Environment

  • Q1. Find prime numbers You are given a positive integer ‘N’. Your task is to print all prime numbers less than or equal to N. Note: A prime number is a natural numb...read more
  • Q2. Technical Question

    Use of DBMS in my project and explain how i handle the problems

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPAPayU interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Array ,DP ,Graph ,Recursion, Tree ,Queue,BSTTime required to prepare for the interview - 1.5 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Do atleast 1 good projects
Tip 2 : Practice Atleast 300 Questions
Tip 3 : Should be able to explain your project

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Always be true with the resume
Tip 2 : Do not put false things on resume.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

Software Developer Interview Questions

PayPal user image CodingNinjas

posted on 7 Jan 2022

I was interviewed before Jan 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Face to Face Round (3 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Technical Interview Round with questions based on Data structures, OOPS and SQL.

  • Q1. Delete a Node from Linked List You have been given a linked list of integers. Your task is to write a function that deletes a node from a given position, 'P...read more
  • Q2. DBMS Question

    SQL Query to find nth highest salary

  • Q3. OOPS Question

    Explain OOPS Concepts.

2

Face to Face Round (4 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Was asked me about my favorite technologies, What i liked about Facebook. And asked me to design a cinema ticket reservation web site­ like the one satyam has.

  • Q1. Kth largest element in the unsorted array You are given an array consisting of 'N' distinct positive integers and a number 'K'. Your task is to ...read more
  • Q2. OOPS Question

    What are virtual functions?

  • Q3. System Design Question

    Design a Cinema Ticket Reservation System.

  • Q4. Puzzle

    In how many attempts can one find a defective ball among 10 given balls after weighting it in a 2 weight weighting pan?

3

HR Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

HR round that lasted for about 30 minutes. The interviewer asked me questions to know more about me and a puzzle.

  • Q1. Basic HR Question

    I was asked about my projects and my extra­curricular activities

  • Q2. Puzzle

    There are three boxes, one box of blue balls, one green and one mixed ,all labelled incorrectly. In how many trials will I label them correctly ?

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPAPaypal 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

Software Developer Interview Questions

Visa user image Anonymous

posted on 26 Jul 2023

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Jul 2022.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

It had 4 questions of moderate difficulty

2

Technical Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. He went deep into my resume and asked questions from each line of it
  • Q2. Then he asked me that why you have only passed 10/14 test cases in 4th question
  • Q3. I said it was from dp and I had not studied dp properly

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Visa Software Developer interview:
  • Data Structures
  • Web Development
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be strong on your DSA skills or development skills , be strong in either of one

Software Developer Interview Questions

Paytm user image CodingNinjas

posted on 17 May 2022

I was interviewed in Aug 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 70 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Their were 3 DSA coding questions of medium and hard level. I need to solve them in 70 minutes. Coding questions were of Arrays, Linked list and Binary search trees

  • Q1. Reverse Linked List Given a singly linked list of integers. Your task is to return the head of the reversed linked list. For example: The given linked list is 1...read more
  • Q2. Sort An Array of 0s, 1s and 2s You have been given an array/list ARR consisting of ‘N’ elements. Each element in the array is either 0, 1 or 2. Now, your task i...read more
2

Face to Face Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round was majorly focused on problem solving skills and DSA. Interviewer asked me three DSA questions of medium and hard level. He started with the hard question, he asked me zig-zag binary tree traversal. we discussed the approach than I coded it and explained its Time and space complexity. Than he asked me max sum subarray modified question, I solved it using Kadane algorithm. Than he discussed one of my online assesments question and asked me to further optimize that approach that I used in the online test. Than I optimized that approach and coded that. Than he asked me for any questions and we dropped the call.

  • Q1. Spiral Order Traversal of a Binary Tree You have been given a binary tree of 'N' nodes. Print the Spiral Order traversal of this binary tree. For exampl...read more
  • Q2. Maximum Subarray Sum Given an array of numbers, find the maximum sum of any contiguous subarray of the array. For example, given the array [34, -50, 42, 14, -5,...read more
3

Face to Face Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 40 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round was mainly focused on operating systems, DBMS and past projects. we started with the introduction. Interviewer asked me explain a functionality of one of my projects that I wrote in my resume, I done that than he started asking OS and DBMS questions. After that we asked me about any bad experience in my past internship, I told that than he asked for any questions to me and we dropped the call and after 2 days I got HR mail that I'm selected.

  • Q1. Operating System based Questions

    Questions about scheduling algorithms, dead lock, synchronization etc. were asked.

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI completed Computer Science Engineering from Maharaja Agrasen Institute Of Technology. I applied for the job as SDE - 1 in PuneEligibility criteriaNAPaytm (One97 Communications Limited) interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structure, Algorithms , OOPs, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Projects.Time required to prepare for the interview - 4 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : prepare DSA well
Tip 2 : prepare core subjects well.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Write internships and projects in detail
Tip 2 :  Avoid grammar errors

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

Software Developer Interview Questions

Visa user image CodingNinjas

posted on 15 Sep 2021

I was interviewed in Dec 2020.

1 Interview Round

1

Coding Test Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

The coding test was conducted on Hackerrank platform. The test was in the evening. There were two coding questions of easy difficulty. The test was proctored, our webcam was on but not the mic. Also we were not allowed to switch tabs.
About 360 students sat in this round out which 15 were shortlisted for the next interview round.

  • Q1. Maximum equal elements after K operations You are given an arbitrary array/list of integers 'ARR' of size ‘N’ and an integer ‘K’. You need to find the m...read more
  • Q2. Number of Pairs with Given Sum You have been given an integer array/list(arr) and a number 'Sum'. Find and return the total number of pairs in the array...read more

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI completed Computer Science Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology. I applied for the job as SDE - 1 in BangaloreEligibility criteria9 CGPAVisa interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Algorithms, Array, Dynamic Programming, Trees, Heap, Linked List, Backtracking, OOPS, Operating System, Database Management SystemTime required to prepare for the interview - 5 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Prepare data structures and algorithms thoroughly and practice atleast 2 to 3 questions daily for 4-5 months consistently.
Tip 2 : Have few good projects in your resume and also prepare your core subjects like Operating System, DBMS.
Tip 3 : Before interview do a little research about the company.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Mention at least 2 good projects.
Tip 2 : You should be able to defend whatever you have put on your resume so don't mention anything false.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

MasterCard Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in MasterCard Software Developer interview for freshers?
MasterCard interview process for freshers usually has 2 rounds. The most common rounds in the MasterCard interview process for freshers are Technical, Resume Shortlist and Coding Test.
What are the top questions asked in MasterCard Software Developer interview for freshers?

Some of the top questions asked at the MasterCard Software Developer interview for freshers -

  1. 2 questions , one on maps and other on dp with strings and then 2 questions on ...read more
  2. Array basics, java basics oops and ...read more

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