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Updated 31 Jul 2024

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

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Synchronisation primitives in rust?
  • Ans. 

    Rust provides various synchronisation primitives like Mutex, RwLock, Atomic types, etc.

    • Mutex: Provides exclusive access to data

    • RwLock: Allows multiple readers or one writer at a time

    • Atomic types: Provide atomic operations on primitive types

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Write a rust code to read a file reverse the contents & write it back to file. Using multiple threads
  • Ans. 

    Rust code to read a file, reverse contents, and write back using multiple threads

    • Use std::fs to read and write files

    • Create multiple threads to handle reading, reversing, and writing operations

    • Use channels to communicate between threads

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Coding Test 

DSA question on Depth first search. & other on reverse the strings.

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Apr 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Dp hard sliding window mqximum
  • Q2. Jah hshh hahaha nsnana
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Leetcode hard easy question

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - just clear your basics

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I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Apr 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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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 - Coding Test 

Coding on java ,spring , hibernate

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Java basics multithreading, inheritance, oops

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare basics in java, spring

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - they ask question on basics and concepts more, rest interview is easy.

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Oct 2020. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. String manipulation , collections, framework understanding

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - For QA Automation - Basics of OOPS concept,collections,strings are enough

I applied via Job Portal and was interviewed before Mar 2021. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - HR 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. What is your family background?
  • Q2. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
  • Q3. Tell me about yourself.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Should answer without confusion and with confident.... Avoid seeing around you and should have eye to eye contact with the HR and must reach the knowledge how much we can.

I was interviewed before Dec 2020.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

(1 Question)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

The online round was held around 11 am.The online round consisted of questions on sql,computer networks,operating system,data structures ,c++ and java.There was no subjective coding question but yes there were questions based on output prediction and figure out the wrong line of code in a given code according to a given output.You need to score atleast 70% in this test to qualify for the next round.

  • Q1. 

    String Transformation Problem

    Given a string (STR) of length N, you are tasked to create a new string through the following method:

    Select the smallest character from the first K characters of STR, remov...

  • Ans. 

    Given a string and an integer K, create a new string by selecting the smallest character from the first K characters of the input string and repeating the process until the input string is empty.

    • Iterate through the input string, selecting the smallest character from the first K characters each time.

    • Remove the selected character from the input string and append it to the new string.

    • Continue this process until the input ...

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

After clearing the first round chegg provides you a chegg guideline document(which most of the students end up skipping).Please go through that properly because the second test contain 20 MCQS based on chegg guidelines. And you have to score at least 80% in that i. e, you have to score at least 16/20.You will get three chances to clear this round.

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI applied for the job as Software Engineer in DelhiEligibility criteriaNOAccenture interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data structures, computer networks, operating system, java, c++Time required to prepare for the interview - 3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : practice input output questions for c++ and java
Tip 2 : As the test covers all core subjects of computer science you need to prepare all(including the numerical)

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Mention at least one project on your resume
Tip 2 : Do not put false information about the skills that you don't have on resume

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Oct 2019. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Question related to C,C++,Java and a bit of SQL and DBMS although it was a group interview where 4 candidates were interviewed simultaneously and it was a more of a behavioural round than a technical one y...

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident and dress up in formals with coordinating shoes and carry your documents in a good file and look presentable as it is important to look good and radiate confidence with your personality to clear interview.

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before May 2020. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Servicenow related questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Scripting knowledge and technical questions

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Nov 2021. There were 2 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 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Asked basic HR question as to why i want to join, what am i looking for , ever faced any harships in my internship.
  • Q2. Why did i puckup coding and biggest regret, weakness, strengths.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well and answer honestly and keep it simple. They may ask about your projects as well.
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Microsoft Corporation Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Microsoft Corporation Principal Engineer interview?
Microsoft Corporation interview process usually has 2 rounds. The most common rounds in the Microsoft Corporation interview process are Technical and Coding Test.
How to prepare for Microsoft Corporation Principal 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 Microsoft Corporation. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Microsoft Corporation expect are microsoft, C++, Computer science, Debugging and Python.
What are the top questions asked in Microsoft Corporation Principal Engineer interview?

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