McAfee Software Developer Intern Interview Questions and Answers

Written test coding and with aptitude questions are asked

• Q1. Asking about OOPS and C++ basics concepts
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Round 1  was a coding round of 60 min which started around 5:30PM in which 2 problem statements were given. The questions were based on Array and linked list. The platform used for test was coding which was user friendly and which use to display number of test cases passed and some test cases were hidden.

• Q1. Deletion in Circular Linked List You are given a Circular Linked List of integers, and an integer, 'key'. You have to write a function that finds the gi...read more
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• Q2. Move All Negative Numbers To Beginning And Positive To End You are given an array 'ARR' consisting of 'N' integers. You need to rearrange the ar...read more
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Round duration - 30-35 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round was of technical interview and they asked me various concepts

• Q1. Basic Interview Questions They given me 2 table containing names of different cities and told me to apply left join on them. 1) Asked me about the Languages kno...read more
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Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This round was scheduled for 9am in the morning. The test environment was pretty good . I didn't face any issues on the HireVeu platform. The first test was of Aptitude and then in next section it was Technical MCQ's. The level of questions were mid to high level of difficulty.

• Q1. DBMS Questions What is DML and DDL? Write an SQL query to print the FIRST_NAME from Worker table after replacing ‘a’ with ‘A’. Write an SQL query to print detai...read more
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

The exam was on the same Platform. The first question was about the most difficult Project I've worked on. I have to record a video in that particular platform and then move to the next questions. There was option for a demo video of 1 minute in which you can practice your answers and then can record your answer in the next video of max 5 minutes. The next 2 question were Coding Problems of moderate difficulty and you've to record your approach and then proceed towards solving the code and then record a video stating if you succeed or not and what better could you've done to make it work.

• Q1. Sum Of N Digit Palindromes You are given an integer 'N'. Your task is to return the sum of all N-digit numbers which are palindrome. A number is said to...read more
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Round duration - 45 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round was scheduled for 3pm. The interviewer was quite friendly. He asked about me and told me to relax and then answer. He started with asking questions from my Project and how the ideas behind the Project. My Project was related to Deadlock So he asked whether I can implement my Project on any environment. I answered . Then one of my internship Project was related to Web development so He asked me about the backend of the Project. He gave me a few SQL queries and some general DBMS concepts based on the response about using Mysql in the Project. He asked me a few things about AWS and Cloud Computing which I answered. At last he asked some LINUX commands and corrected me once and was satisfied with my answers.

• Q1. OS Questions 1) What is Kernel? 2) What is Deadlock? 3) Why you use Binary semaphores instead of Counting Semaphores? 4) What is threads? What is hardware threa...read more
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• Q2. DBMS & Trees Questions

  1) Explain DDL VS DML.
  2) Explain Normalization
  3) B+ Trees and it's working.

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Here , you need to type the code and there won’t be any compiling . So you just need to type what you know

• Q1. Oops , programming language ,
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• Q2. SQL, sdlc . These are required
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• Q1. Same as anywhere to have
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Round duration - 50 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round was held on Google Meet Video Call at 10 A.M.
There were 2 Interviewers and they were very helpful.

• 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
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• Q2. Maximum sum path from the leaf to root You are given a binary tree of 'N' nodes. Your task is to find the path from the leaf node to the root node which...read more
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• Q3. Draw E-R Diagram for Uber.
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Round duration - 55 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

The round was 2nd technical round conducted through Google Meet.
There were 2 interviewers and they were helpful.
Timing was from 11:10 A.M - 12:00 P.M

• Q1. GIven a file of 1 GB having data in form of digits, sort the file elements with 100 MB RAM available.
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• Q2. Add two numbers given as linked List
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• Q3. How Google Search Works? Discussion Around How Google search suggests if we typed something wrong. e.g. If we type Cracket. It will suggest : Did you Mean : Cri...read more
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Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Timing was 12:30 P.M. to 1:00 P.M.
It was held on Google Meet and HR was helpful.

• Q1. Why Sprinkler over other companies
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• Q2. Tell one incident when you were not able to cooperate with your team member and how did you work together.
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