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Updated 17 Jan 2025

McAfee Software Development Engineer Interview Experiences

3 interviews found

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

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Jan 2024. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Fundamental programming skills and problem-solving techniques.

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Python fundamentals and problem solving
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Hiring manager round
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary and benefits discussion

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be calm and brush on fundamentals

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Oct 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. First Round was more focus around java, basic questions why java is platform independent , questions around String pool, Thread pool, Serialization , Exceptions and then design pattern Singleton and builde...
  • Q2. Second round about was Data Structures and Algo , add two linked list , parethesis balancing then again questions on Spring and Spring Boot, Some questions on Eureka Discovery Sevices and Message Broker
  • Q3. Third round was again DS round implement Generic Queue using Linked List , then Questions on joins , implement one to many and many to many association in spring boot

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - It was very good and nice interviewers were very good.

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Q5. Have you worked on cloud technology? Architecture of cloud
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via campus placement at National Institute of Technology, Surathkal and was interviewed before Mar 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

ELitmus test on Maths, Physics, Chem

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Was asked coding and aptitude

Round 3 - Coding Test 

Was asked coding questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Coding skills, relevant experience/knowledge and aptitude

Interview questions from similar companies

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

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Jun 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Mostly DS and Algo based questions and oops were asked.
  • Q2. SQL questions were asked in a very detailed manner.
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Same as round 1
  • Q2. Previous project based questions.
Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Mostly company policy and culture
  • Q2. Salary discussion

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Medium level interview . Anyone having good knowledge of their domain can crack.
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via campus placement at KJ Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology and was interviewed before Jan 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

2-3 coding questions based on DSA

Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

It was a basic SHL test

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Easy DSA and java related questions
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Typical HR round questions about career prospects

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Mar 2020. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. What is Data Integrity?
  • Ans. 

    Data Integrity refers to the accuracy and consistency of data throughout its lifecycle.

    • Ensuring data is not corrupted or modified without authorization

    • Maintaining data accuracy and consistency through proper storage and retrieval

    • Preventing data loss or unauthorized access

    • Examples: checksums, encryption, access controls

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Gave an example and asked to produce that output with a query.
  • Q3. Questions like difference between union and union all. The function of cursor. Basic query tuning questions. Index, triggers etc

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - The interview happened during the lockdown period, so it was virtual Teams meeting. I had 2 technical rounds and one Managerial round. The interviewers were quite friendly and explained everything crystal clear. Since this was a SQL post, I would suggest you to get the basics intact and try practicing few queries.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: This round had a total of 22 questions, in which 20 questions were from aptitude and reasoning. The level of aptitude questions were good. The questions were a mixture of easy, moderate and difficult levels. Remaining 2 questions were coding questions, in which one question was easy and another one was a bit difficult. This round was mainly to check the basic understanding and thinking power.
Tips: Aptitude and reasoning could be prepared in a short time. But coding takes a lot time. So focus more on coding than aptitude and reasoning. Aptitude and reasoning questions just take a combination of little common sense and computation power. While coding takes a lot of things, eg - Data structures, algorithms, programming languages, mathematics, common sense, computation power.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 22

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This round was a total of 1 hour and 30 minutes. First of all, I was asked to introduce myself. I introduced myself then the interviewer also shared his work experience and he had worked at Snapdeal for five years. The questions asked were from the

College Name: NIT Hamirpur
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Campus Placement

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Question related to operating system and computer network

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Traverse all child nodes in tree
  • Ans. 

    Traverse all child nodes in a tree data structure

    • Use depth-first or breadth-first traversal algorithms

    • Recursively visit each child node starting from the root node

    • Consider using a stack or queue data structure for traversal

    • Example: Traverse all nodes in a binary tree

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Question related to cloud and oops
Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Question related to my background and how web site work
Interview experience
1
Bad
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
-
Result
No response

I applied via Walk-in and was interviewed in Nov 2024. There were 5 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Normal online code / frontend test

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. How would you build book my show
  • Ans. 

    Designing and building a platform similar to BookMyShow involves creating a user-friendly interface for booking tickets for various events.

    • Develop a user-friendly website and mobile app for users to browse and book tickets for movies, concerts, plays, etc.

    • Implement a secure payment gateway for users to make online transactions.

    • Integrate a database to store information about events, venues, tickets, and user bookings.

    • In...

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Solid principals, awareness of patterns
Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. How would you build tinyurl like service, systems designs
  • Ans. 

    To build a tinyurl-like service, design a system with a URL shortening algorithm, a database to store mappings, and a redirect service.

    • Use a hashing algorithm to generate short URLs from long URLs (e.g. MD5, SHA-256).

    • Store the mappings of short URLs to long URLs in a database (e.g. MySQL, Redis).

    • Implement a redirect service that takes a short URL, looks up the corresponding long URL in the database, and redirects the u...

  • Answered by AI
Round 5 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Non-technical questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - no reply after giving so many rounds.
Interview experience
1
Bad
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
-
Result
Selected Selected

I was interviewed in Dec 2024.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Mainly 4 Questions
1-2 MCQ
3: Create a class deriving from IReptile and return an object of HatchEgg which has Hatch Method. Hatch Method should return same IReptile object.
4) Sorting IDs in dictionary

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. The Interviewer was Very Rude and he doesn't care about the Requirements of Hiring a candidate. he was constantly asking about Other Companies Architectures and The things you did in them. instead of havin...
  • Q2. SOLID, Interfaces , Boxing/Unboxing

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Stay away from this company. very toxic

McAfee Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in McAfee Software Development Engineer interview?
McAfee interview process usually has 3-4 rounds. The most common rounds in the McAfee interview process are Aptitude Test, Coding Test and Technical.
How to prepare for McAfee Software Development Engineer interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at McAfee. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at McAfee expect are Python, Debugging, C++, Coding and Automation.
What are the top questions asked in McAfee Software Development Engineer interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the McAfee Software Development Engineer interview -

  1. First Round was more focus around java, basic questions why java is platform in...read more
  2. Second round about was Data Structures and Algo , add two linked list , parethe...read more
  3. Third round was again DS round implement Generic Queue using Linked List , then...read more

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