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McAfee Technical Support Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 20 Jul 2022

McAfee Technical Support Engineer Interview Experiences

1 interview found

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What different did you do in locked down
  • Ans. 

    During the lockdown, I focused on enhancing my technical skills and learning new technologies.

    • Took online courses and certifications to improve my knowledge in areas like networking and troubleshooting

    • Participated in virtual workshops and webinars to stay updated with the latest industry trends

    • Practiced troubleshooting scenarios on virtual machines to sharpen my problem-solving abilities

    • Contributed to online technical ...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. How do you spend your day?
  • Ans. 

    As a Technical Support Engineer, my day is spent troubleshooting and resolving technical issues for customers.

    • I start my day by checking emails and responding to any urgent customer inquiries.

    • I prioritize and manage my workload, addressing high-priority issues first.

    • I collaborate with other team members to share knowledge and seek assistance when needed.

    • I troubleshoot technical problems reported by customers, analyzing...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be honest and give realistic answers. Share an out of the box answer or scenario during you previous work. Show them how good you are in handling situations

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I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jan 2016. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

5 Questions

  • Q1. Questions on linked list
  • Q2. Questions on resume
  • Q3. About my interests
  • Q4. My interest in symantec
  • Q5. Place to work

Interview Preparation Tips

College Name: IIT Madras

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. How you find loop in a linked list
  • Ans. 

    To find a loop in a linked list, we use Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm.

    • Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm uses two pointers, one moving at twice the speed of the other.

    • If there is a loop in the linked list, the two pointers will eventually meet.

    • To detect the meeting point, we reset one of the pointers to the head of the linked list and move both pointers at the same speed.

    • The meeting point is the start of the loop.

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  • Q2. What is LRU, MRU and LFU
  • Ans. 

    LRU, MRU and LFU are caching algorithms used to manage memory in computer systems.

    • LRU stands for Least Recently Used and removes the least recently used items from the cache when the cache is full.

    • MRU stands for Most Recently Used and removes the most recently used items from the cache when the cache is full.

    • LFU stands for Least Frequently Used and removes the least frequently used items from the cache when the cache i...

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  • Q3. Camel banana problem

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: coding test in hacker rank. can code in any language except in C and C++.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 2

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: In technical round the questions are on OS, basics of C(mainly in linked lists) and maths puzzle

They mostly see how you are approaching towards a problem.
It is first time that I heard the camel banana problem. So I struggled for some time and came up with a solution. He said he liked the approach but it can be optimized.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: It started with explain about yourselves. and then he asked to explain about one project with technical details. Later he asked me to explain binary search for a guy who don't know much of technical knowledge. He continued with why we only do 2 partitions why can we make it up to 3. Later he asked me what I liked most in my mobile phone. I said chatting apps. So he asked me that if I was hired as a developer to make a chatting app how will I do it.
Tips: way of thinking and way of approaching towards a problem.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: This round was focused mainly on whether I like to work in Bangalore or not. How I first heard about Symantec. how I will suit for the company. what are my future plans.

Skills: C, OS, Math Puzzles
College Name: IIT Madras

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
-

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before May 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Questions were mostly related to Django Rest Framework and internal working of it, apart from that there were questions related to Django ORM.
  • Q2. Given an API request how would to resolve the space issue that is happening with GET
  • Ans. 

    To resolve space issue with GET API request, consider pagination, compression, caching, and optimizing query parameters.

    • Implement pagination to limit the number of results returned in each request.

    • Use compression techniques like Gzip to reduce the size of the response data.

    • Implement caching mechanisms to store frequently accessed data and reduce the number of requests.

    • Optimize query parameters to only request necessary

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Complete resume based questions
  • Q2. You must me thorough of what you have mentioned in your resume.

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Aug 2019. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. CCNA routing switching basics, Firewall questions, ipsec , VPN

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - The interview will be mostly of 3 rounds

1) Technical
2) soft skills
3) managerial

There was no specific HR round , but you will negotiate it with TA team.
Well in my case it was.

Be well prepared for all

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Jun 2020. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. If fresher is attending the interview then mostly they'll ask questions from resume What are generics, UML diagram for the proper medicine suggestions based on the patient allergies to a particular drug ...

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well with the contents of resume,
First round: versant test
Second round: Technical Interview 1
Third round: Technical Interview 2

Feedback of best of the 2 technical interviews will be considered.

IF selected will receive a call from HR

I applied via Recruitment Consultant and was interviewed in May 2019. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. What is your day to day work?
  • Q2. What new you have to offer the organization?
  • Q3. The most recent issues that you faced in the organization?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be true to yourself and the interviewer, he/she doesn't want you to be full of all technical skills. He/she wants you to be atleast good at the things mentioned in your resume. Showcase that you're ready to switch to any language even if it is uncomfortable for you

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Oct 2019. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Normal php questions like overriding,overloading,traits,interface,abstarct class nothing else.. It was online but in 2016.
  • Q2. Go though those topic as they are very important and asked in most companies.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Read those topics and try to understand with example and doing on your own.Before entering Chetu prepare yourself that you may get fire anytime.Because hiring and firing is lot in Chetu but in terms of salary it is good.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Oops programming,SQL server Database

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Sep 2021. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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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Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

Math and verbal round .

Round 3 - Group Discussion 

General topics to speak

Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Duplicates in array College Projects Hashmap implementation
  • Ans. 

    Implement a function to find duplicates in an array of strings using Hashmap.

    • Create a Hashmap to store the frequency of each string in the array

    • Iterate through the array and check if the frequency of any string is greater than 1

    • If yes, add it to the list of duplicates

    • Return the list of duplicates

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Answer what you know, be genuine and honest

Skills evaluated in this interview

McAfee Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in McAfee Technical Support Engineer interview?
McAfee interview process usually has 1 rounds. The most common rounds in the McAfee interview process are One-on-one Round.
How to prepare for McAfee Technical Support 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 Technical Support, Linux, Troubleshooting, Remote Support and HTTP.

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