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Mercer Principal Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 13 Apr 2024

Mercer Principal Engineer Interview Experiences

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
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Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Last project architecture
  • Ans. 

    Designed a microservices architecture using Docker and Kubernetes for a scalable web application

    • Utilized Docker containers to encapsulate each microservice

    • Implemented Kubernetes for container orchestration and scaling

    • Used service discovery and load balancing for high availability

    • Separated concerns by breaking down the application into smaller services

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

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Oct 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is your role in team
  • Q2. Formative assessment of complex problems and your contribution to drive the solution

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Feb 2020. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Hr

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - You should be true to what you are putting before the interviewer . Try to put your ideas Add something you did well in your career like in projects /research which you know very well and versed in concepts about it for open interview so that interviewer can get bandwidth where he can ask questions from. This is simply a key .

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2020. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. 1.Describe a situation where you have taken a quick decision and failed, and a situation where you succeeded. 2. What is a skill you have tried to achieve but failed? 3. Describe a decision you have taken ...

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1. Always try to take risk in small problems . When you face the consequences, you would be able to tackle bigger problems.
2. Every skill you learn, even if you didn't excel in it is not to be considered a waste of time/failure, you learn something simply by participating.

I was interviewed before Jun 2021.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 180 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was an mcq + coding round. There were aptitude and ouput based question in mcq. And coding questions were easy

  • Q1. 

    Find the Duplicate Number Problem Statement

    Given an integer array 'ARR' of size 'N' containing numbers from 0 to (N - 2). Each number appears at least once, and there is one number that appears twice. Yo...

  • Ans. 

    Find the duplicate number in an array of integers from 0 to (N-2).

    • Iterate through the array and keep track of the frequency of each number using a hashmap.

    • Return the number with a frequency greater than 1 as the duplicate number.

    • Time complexity can be optimized to O(N) using Floyd's Tortoise and Hare algorithm.

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  • Q2. 

    Reverse String Operations Problem Statement

    You are provided with a string S and an array of integers A of size M. Your task is to perform M operations on the string as specified by the indices in array A...

  • Ans. 

    Given a string and an array of indices, reverse substrings based on the indices to obtain the final string.

    • Iterate through the array of indices and reverse the substrings accordingly

    • Ensure the range specified by each index is non-empty

    • Return the final string after all operations are completed

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Round 2 - Video Call 

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was technical + hr round. there were 2 people as interviewer. They stated from intro and asked some basic puzzles and hr questions. After that they asked about my projects, technologies and some ds algo and dbms questions.

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criterianaAccenture interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic ProgrammingTime required to prepare for the interview - 6 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Practice aptitude
Tip 2 : Focus on practicing coding
Tip 3 : Learn from mistakes

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Mention some projects that you have done
Tip 2 : Try to have skills that are required for the role

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Job Portal and was interviewed before Jan 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Oops Concepts,JAVA 8

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Quite simple and easy. 1st round technical.2nd round HR

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Mar 2020. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. How do you get the second to last element from a SQL table?
  • Ans. 

    To get the second to last element from a SQL table, use the OFFSET-FETCH clause.

    • Use the ORDER BY clause to sort the table in descending order.

    • Use the OFFSET-FETCH clause to skip the last row and fetch the second to last row.

    • Example: SELECT column_name FROM table_name ORDER BY column_name DESC OFFSET 1 ROWS FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY;

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Practice by building a simple full stack web application.

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Interview Questionnaire 

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