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Updated 4 Oct 2022

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I applied via campus placement at National Institute of Technology, (NIT), Nagaland and was interviewed in Dec 2021.

1 Interview Round

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Explain how you reach to the answer, don't keep them waiting? Ask question if you don't understand. Tell you don't know if you really don't know. Prepare for coding question from trees, string, linked list, backtracking. Better would be solve GeeksforGeeks product based question list.

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Oct 2021.

5 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

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2

Coding Test Round

Basic algo and data structures with problem solving using programming.

3

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Previous projects+programming questions.
  • Q2. Whatever you worked on.
4

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Managerial round of interview.
5

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Job history+salary negotiation

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for McAfee SDE (Software Development Engineer) interview:
  • Algorithms
  • Data Structures
  • Programming
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Brush up on fundamentals + revise your projects that you worked in your experience.

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I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Aug 2022.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Simple or say standard coding questions of easy to medium level

2

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Standard dsa question was asked .the question was of easy to medium level leetcode.
  • Q2. Computer science fundamental dbms, computer network, operating sysytem basic system design

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - practice 3 to 5 leetcode questions on daily basis.
Be consistent through out your placement preparation.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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2

Coding Test Round

3question were there difficulty level was medium

3

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Os and networking questions
  • Q2. UDP And TCP questions were there Practical questions related to Linux and os

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - N/A
The interview experience was overll fine interviewer were quite interactive and good experience overall

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before May 2020.

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Focus on DS

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Sep 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. Find longest palindromic substring in a given string.
  • Q2. How to serialize and deserialise a tree
  • Q3. Find if a given regex (containing ., * and lower case english chars) matches a given string.
  • Q4. Explain about throttling and implement throttle function.
2

Technical Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. Find squares of elements in a sorted array and return the sorted response.
  • Q2. Write a short promise example and implement your own promise
  • Q3. Explain event loop, what are different types of queues in event loop
  • Q4. What is virtual DOM and why its faster

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for ServiceNow Senior Software Engineer interview:
  • React.Js
  • Javascript
  • DSA
Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 -
Result
 -

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Sep 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (5 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain OOPS concept and how you apply it in your implementation
  • Q2. Difference between Comparable and Comparator. Difference between Abstract Class and Interface
  • Q3. Given a string. Find the number of occurrences of each character
  • Q4. Given an array. Remove the number of duplicates
  • Q5. Given a student object having name and grade data variables. Sort the object on the basis of highest grade.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Walk-in and was interviewed in Nov 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

1st round is aptitude and pesudocode

2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Mostly python questions
  • Q2. List questions and basic to mediumprogram

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Moderate interview
Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Jul 2024.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. Why do we use SOLID principle, SRP and OCP violation?
  • Q2. What is singleton design pattern and how to implement it?
  • Q3. OOPs based question: abstract vs interface, multiple inheritance, method overloading vs method overriding.
  • Q4. Dependency injection- what is it and any use case where to use?
2

Technical Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. Multithreading and TPL related questions?
  • Q2. How can we debug the any published dll?
  • Q3. Data seeding in entity framework and how to map tables with entity?
  • Q4. Deployment related question in IIS.
3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary negotiation related discussion

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Focus on basic concepts and code practice.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Software Engineer Interview Questions

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posted on 9 Oct 2024

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

3 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Basic java fundamentals
  • Q2. Spring boot,sql
2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Some technical questions from manager
  • Q2. Some challenges or scenario based questions
3

HR Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Salary discussion mostly
  • Q2. Benifts that they offer with TR

McAfee Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in McAfee SDE (Software Development Engineer) interview?
McAfee interview process usually has 5 rounds. The most common rounds in the McAfee interview process are One-on-one Round, HR and Resume Shortlist.
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