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I appeared for an interview in Dec 2016.
Interview Questionnaire
9 Questions
- Q1. Tell me about your internship experience.
- Ans.
I had a 6-month internship at XYZ Company where I worked on developing a web application using Java and Angular.
Developed a web application using Java and Angular
Collaborated with a team of developers to design and implement new features
Participated in code reviews and debugging sessions
Gained experience in Agile development methodologies
- Q2. Discuss about a project mentioned in your CV.
- Ans.
Developed a web-based inventory management system for a retail company.
Used Java and Spring framework to build the backend
Implemented a responsive user interface using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Integrated with a barcode scanner for efficient product tracking
Implemented role-based access control for different user roles
Optimized database queries for improved performance
- Q3. Given two words, find the similarity between them. You have to develop your own sense of similarity here. Normalize length of LCS by the total length of the string.
- Ans.
The question asks to find the similarity between two words by developing our own sense of similarity.
Normalize the length of the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) by dividing it by the total length of the string.
Implement a function that calculates the LCS between two words.
Divide the length of the LCS by the sum of the lengths of the two words.
Return the normalized similarity score as the result.
- Q4. Stress checking questions
- Q5. Given a binary tree, return doubly linked list of all the nodes at each level.
- Ans.
The function returns a doubly linked list of all the nodes at each level of a given binary tree.
Use a breadth-first search (BFS) algorithm to traverse the binary tree level by level.
Create a doubly linked list for each level and append the nodes to it.
Connect the doubly linked lists of each level to form the final result.
- Q6. Can you work under pressure?
- Ans.
Yes, I thrive in high-pressure situations and have a proven track record of delivering quality work under tight deadlines.
I have successfully completed multiple projects on tight deadlines
I am able to prioritize tasks effectively to meet deadlines
I remain calm and focused under pressure to ensure quality work is delivered
- Q7. Tell me your achievements.
- Ans.
I have achieved significant milestones in my career as a Senior Software Developer.
Developed and implemented a scalable and efficient software solution for a large e-commerce platform, resulting in a 30% increase in sales.
Led a team of developers to successfully deliver a complex project within a tight deadline, earning recognition from the client.
Optimized the performance of a critical software module, reducing its ex...
- Q8. How can you be an asset to the company?
- Ans.
I can bring extensive experience in software development, strong problem-solving skills, and a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions.
Extensive experience in software development
Strong problem-solving skills
Proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions
- Q9. Will you deliver your 100% in the job?
- Ans.
Yes, I am committed to delivering my 100% in the job.
I am dedicated to producing high-quality code and meeting project deadlines.
I continuously strive to improve my skills and stay updated with the latest technologies.
I have a track record of successfully completing projects and exceeding expectations.
Interview Preparation Tips
Experience: The test had 3 questions as follows :
Q1. Rainwater Collection - Dynamic programming
Q2. DP / Memoization question
Q3. BFS Matrix Question
Tips: Have strong hold over topics like Dynamic Programming. Graph Theory, specially BFS and DFS.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 3
Round: Test
Experience: Both questions were based on implementation of puzzles and problems.
Tips: AD-HOC questions should be known and good coding skills with data structures and algorithms.
Duration: 45 minutes
Total Questions: 2
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The interviewer asked me about my previous internships while in college and made me explain the work I did. Later on he asked me in detail about the projects I did in college.
Tips: Be prepared to explain your internship work and project work in details. You will be cross questioned. So be ready to answer everything related to them. Only enter those projects in your CV which you can explain confidently.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I was first asked a coding question related to finding similarity in two words and I had to define the terms of similarity on my own which I did by normalizing length of LCS by the total length of the string. Then I was faced with stress checking. They tried proving me wrong even though when I was right and checked my reaction under stress.
Tips: Be confident about your answers and act smart. Don't hesitate to explain and believe in your skills. Take criticism in a positive manner.
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: A little coding questions were asked like binary trees, doubly linked lists etc. Then the usual HR questions like achievements, how would I be an asset to the company and all.
Tips: Think out loud. Communicate with the interviewer well. Clarify whatever you don't understand. Show them that you are passionate and excited to work with them. Show that you will give your best to help grow the company.
Skills: Coding Skills, Ability To Cope Up With Stress, Communication And Confidence, Logical And Structured Thinking, Data Structures
College Name: IIT Varanasi
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I appeared for an interview in Dec 2016.
Interview Questionnaire
9 Questions
- Q1. Tell me about your internship experience.
- Ans.
I completed a software development internship at a tech startup.
Developed a web application using React.js and Node.js
Worked on optimizing database queries for improved performance
Collaborated with a team of developers to troubleshoot and debug code
Participated in daily stand-up meetings to discuss progress and roadblocks
- Q2. Discuss about a project mentioned in your CV.
- Ans.
Developed a web application for online shopping
Used HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for front-end development
Implemented backend using Node.js and MongoDB for database management
Integrated payment gateway for secure transactions
Implemented user authentication and authorization features
- Q3. Given two words, find the similarity between them. You have to develop your own sense of similarity here. Normalize length of LCS by the total length of the string.
- Ans.
The question asks to find the similarity between two words by normalizing the length of the longest common subsequence (LCS) by the total length of the string.
Implement a function that takes two words as input
Find the length of the longest common subsequence (LCS) between the two words
Normalize the length of LCS by dividing it by the total length of the string
Return the normalized similarity value
- Q4. Stress checking questions
- Q5. Given a binary tree, return doubly linked list of all the nodes at each level.
- Ans.
The function takes a binary tree as input and returns a doubly linked list of all the nodes at each level.
Use a breadth-first search (BFS) algorithm to traverse the binary tree level by level.
For each level, create a doubly linked list and add the nodes to it.
Connect the doubly linked lists of each level to form the final result.
- Q6. Can you work under pressure?
- Ans.
Yes, I can work well under pressure by staying organized, prioritizing tasks, and maintaining a positive attitude.
I have experience working on tight deadlines and delivering high-quality results.
I am able to stay calm and focused in stressful situations.
I prioritize tasks effectively to ensure that all deadlines are met.
I communicate effectively with team members to manage workload and expectations.
I maintain a positiv...
- Q7. Tell me your achievements.
- Ans.
Led a team to successfully launch a new mobile app, resulting in a 50% increase in user engagement.
Led a team to develop and launch a new mobile app
Achieved a 50% increase in user engagement
Implemented new features based on user feedback
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure project success
- Q8. How can you be an asset to the company?
- Ans.
I can contribute my strong technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and passion for software development to drive innovation and success for the company.
I have a solid foundation in software development principles and practices
I excel at problem-solving and troubleshooting complex technical issues
I am passionate about staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends in the industry
- Q9. Will you deliver your 100% in the job?
- Ans.
Yes, I am committed to giving my 100% in the job.
I am dedicated to meeting deadlines and exceeding expectations.
I have a strong work ethic and take pride in my work.
I am always looking for ways to improve and learn new skills.
I have a track record of delivering high-quality results in my previous roles.
Interview Preparation Tips
Experience: The test had 3 questions as follows :
Q1. Rainwater Collection - Dynamic programming
Q2. DP / Memoization question
Q3. BFS Matrix Question
Tips: Have strong hold over topics like Dynamic Programming. Graph Theory, specially BFS and DFS.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 3
Round: Test
Experience: Both questions were based on implementation of puzzles and problems.
Tips: AD-HOC questions should be known and good coding skills with data structures and algorithms.
Duration: 45 minutes
Total Questions: 2
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The interviewer asked me about my previous internships while in college and made me explain the work I did. Later on he asked me in detail about the projects I did in college.
Tips: Be prepared to explain your internship work and project work in details. You will be cross questioned. So be ready to answer everything related to them. Only enter those projects in your CV which you can explain confidently.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I was first asked a coding question related to finding similarity in two words and I had to define the terms of similarity on my own which I did by normalizing length of LCS by the total length of the string. Then I was faced with stress checking. They tried proving me wrong even though when I was right and checked my reaction under stress.
Tips: Be confident about your answers and act smart. Don't hesitate to explain and believe in your skills. Take criticism in a positive manner.
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: A little coding questions were asked like binary trees, doubly linked lists etc. Then the usual HR questions like achievements, how would I be an asset to the company and all.
Tips: Think out loud. Communicate with the interviewer well. Clarify whatever you don't understand. Show them that you are passionate and excited to work with them. Show that you will give your best to help grow the company.
Skills: Coding Skills, Communication And Confidence, Ability To Cope Up With Stress, Logical And Structured Thinking
College Name: IIT Varanasi
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Srishti Bhatnagar
I appeared for an interview in Apr 2017.
Interview Questionnaire
5 Questions
- Q1. String Compression
- Ans.
String compression algorithm to reduce the size of a string by replacing repeated characters with a count.
Iterate through the string and count the number of consecutive occurrences of each character.
Append the character and its count to a new string.
If the compressed string is longer than the original string, return the original string.
Example: 'aabcccccaaa' -> 'a2b1c5a3'
- Q2. Circular Queue
- Q3. Spiral Matrix
- Q4. Some OS concepts
- Q5. Project Related Questions
Interview Preparation Tips
Experience: We dicussed what can be the various approaches for string compression and then I was asked to code the encoding and decoding functions for the same.
Tips: Try to discuss as much as possible.Clear your doubts and speak your thoughts.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Again, it was a coding round.We discussed the approach, then I wrote the code and further discussions on optimisation.
Tips: Same.
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: It was a short HR round but it was technical. Projects mentioned in the resume were discussed. Ideas, approach and concepts behind it were asked.
Tips: Explain as much as you can because this would help in giving them a clear picture of what you did and how you did it.
Skills: Problem Solving Abilties, Algorithmic Approach To Problem Solving, Data Structures
College Name: IGDTUW
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Sharmili Murthy
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jan 2016. There were 5 interview rounds.
Interview Questionnaire
3 Questions
- Q1. Finding a loop in a directed graph, find the last element in a binary tree
- Ans.
To find a loop in a directed graph, use Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm. To find the last element in a binary tree, traverse the tree and return the rightmost leaf node.
For finding a loop in a directed graph, use Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm which uses two pointers moving at different speeds.
To find the last element in a binary tree, traverse the tree recursively or iteratively and return the rightmost leaf node.
- Q2. On circular queue and finding the last number which is highest and contains same number. Of digits a the given numbber
- Ans.
The question is about finding the last number in a circular queue that has the highest number of digits.
Implement a circular queue data structure
Iterate through the circular queue to find the last number with the highest number of digits
Compare the number of digits of each number in the circular queue
Keep track of the last number with the highest number of digits
- Q3. Tell me your passions and what. Is the one thing I want to know about you
Interview Preparation Tips
Experience: Coding round based on logic was given
Tips: Practice coding
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 3
College Name: IIT Madras
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I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016. There were 6 interview rounds.
Interview Questionnaire
2 Questions
- Q1. Circular queues, binary trees, recursion
- Q2. Asked about project
Interview Preparation Tips
Experience: 3 very simple questions on hackerrank.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 3
Round: Group Discussion
Duration: 1 hour
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Asked me to code up a simple question
College Name: IIT Madras
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Vamsi Krishna
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016. There were 6 interview rounds.
Interview Questionnaire
4 Questions
- Q1. 2 coding questions, Projects,
- Q2. Coding questions, Projects, ML, cloud, Parallel Computing
- Q3. Discussions on projects
- Q4. Redmond Interview
Interview Preparation Tips
Experience: Easy coding questions.
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 3
Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Two coding questions and discussions.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Most of the focus on coding questions, and projects and discussions on other computer science topics.
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: With in 5 minutes round is finished.
Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: 3 Coding questions, Projects, Many HR questions, lot of disscusions on other cs topics.
College Name: IIT Madras
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016. There was 1 interview round.
Interview Questionnaire
3 Questions
- Q1. Binary tree question. Check if left child is less than right child. Recursive and iterative implementation
- Ans.
Check if left child is less than right child in a binary tree
Traverse the tree recursively and compare left and right child values
Use a stack to traverse the tree iteratively and compare left and right child values
Return true if all left children are less than right children, else false
- Q2. Check if a string is a substring in another string. Discussed speed (not time complexity). not neccessarily always correct but fast
- Ans.
Use built-in string method to check substring presence for faster execution.
Use 'indexOf' method to check if substring is present in the main string.
If the method returns -1, the substring is not present.
If the method returns a non-negative integer, the substring is present.
- Q3. Maze question. write code on paper in 5 mins. automatically check if function is correct (not testcases)
Interview Preparation Tips
Tips: Practice writing code on paper
College Name: IIT Madras
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I appeared for an interview before Feb 2016.
Interview Questionnaire
2 Questions
- Q1. The interviewer firstly asked about my internship - my role during the internship, the projects that I worked on and the completion status of the projects. Then he asked about my project- Library managemen...
- Q2. Given two words determine the similarity between them
- Ans.
The question asks to determine the similarity between two words.
Use a similarity metric like Levenshtein distance or cosine similarity
Normalize the words by converting them to lowercase and removing punctuation
Consider using a pre-trained word embedding model for semantic similarity
Implement a function that calculates the similarity score between two words
Interview Preparation Tips
Experience: 3 questions were given
1. Rain water collection problem
2. Matrix DFS problem
3. DP problem
Tips: Practice all standard questions on practice.geeksforgeeks.org.
And other dp questions on Hackerearth and Hackerrank.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 3
Round: Group fly round
Experience: 2 questions were given
1. Convert number into words. Eg. 389 to Three hundred and eighty nine. Input 1-999999
2. A 2-D matrix nxn consisting of numbers is spirally sorted in decreasing order. So given a number we have to insert into the matrix so that the matrix is still sorted spirally. Write a function.
Tips: Also practice ad hoc questions
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: In my implementation he thought there was some scope for improvement. I implemented the date of issue and date of return both in the books entity. I then suggested to implement an borrowed_books entity and he seemed very satisfied with it.
Tips: High
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I asked about the definition of similarity wrt the question. He replied to define it myself. So, I told him that I would find the LCS of the 2 strings and then define a threshold below/above which "we" could say them to be dissimilar/similar. There was a confusion there. I realised my mistake and stated it to be Longest Common Subsequence. He asked me to write the code. After I was done. He told me that the code was incorrect. I went through the code thrice and then I told him whether he could point out the mistakes. There were none. He was trying to see how I reacted. I didn't get too defensive. He was happy with it. Then he asked me to optimize the code. I said that for letters that didn't match in both the strings, we could define some similarity score between individual letters. He said yes it is definitely a good optimization but can you think of something simpler. I then told him that we need to normalize the LCS. He was happy that I could work on the hints he provided.
Tips: Don't get too defensive.
Listen to each and every word that the interviewer utters carefully.
Try to talk through the solution with the interviewer. Don't let a moment of awkward silence come during the interview.
Think of the interviewer as a friend with whom you are discussing a coding question. It eases out 90% of the tension.
College Name: IIT Varanasi
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I applied via Campus Placement
Interview Preparation Tips
Experience: A bit challenging but interesting.
Tips: 1) Solve as many problems as possible on the website "InterviewBit".
Duration: 75 minutes
Total Questions: 3
General Tips: Don't
Skill Tips: Need to have the ability to code on paper. This needs practice
Skills:
Duration: 2 months
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: An exciting company to work at.
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Sachin Sridhar
I applied via Campus Placement
Interview Questionnaire
6 Questions
- Q1. Testing whether every left child's value is less than the right child's value in a binary tree
- Ans.
To test if every left child's value is less than the right child's value in a binary tree.
Traverse the binary tree using any traversal algorithm (e.g., in-order, pre-order, post-order)
Compare the value of each left child with its right child
If any left child's value is greater than or equal to its right child's value, return false
If all left child's values are less than their right child's values, return true
- Q2. Cloning a linked list-like structure
- Ans.
Cloning a linked list-like structure
Create a new node for each node in the original linked list
Set the value of the new node to the value of the corresponding node in the original linked list
Set the next pointer of the new node to the new node corresponding to the next node in the original linked list
Repeat the above steps until all nodes in the original linked list are cloned
- Q3. Finding the nth character in a stream of bytes
- Ans.
To find the nth character in a stream of bytes, we need to read the stream byte by byte until we reach the nth position.
Start reading the stream byte by byte until you reach the nth position
Return the byte at the nth position
If the stream ends before reaching the nth position, return null or throw an exception
- Q4. Rearranging a string so no consecutive characters are the same
- Ans.
Rearrange a string to avoid consecutive same characters.
Iterate through the string and keep track of the previous character.
If the current character is the same as the previous, swap it with the next different character.
Repeat until no consecutive same characters are left.
- Q5. Finding the next highest palindrome
- Ans.
The task is to find the next highest palindrome number given a number.
Convert the given number to a string
Check if the number is already a palindrome
If not, increment the number by 1 and check if it is a palindrome
Repeat the previous step until a palindrome is found
- Q6. To canonicalize a directory path
- Ans.
Canonicalizing a directory path involves simplifying and standardizing the path to remove any redundant or unnecessary elements.
Remove any consecutive slashes and replace them with a single slash
Remove any trailing slashes
Resolve any relative paths (e.g., '..' and '.')
Handle special cases like the root directory ('/')
Normalize the path by removing any unnecessary elements
Interview Preparation Tips
Experience: The test started an hour late, which could have been avoided with some better planning. The test experience was pretty good for me since I am used to using HackerRank's online platform for competitive coding.
Tips: Maybe a little sample session before the actual test would help.
Duration: 75 minutes
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I enjoyed the interview experience; the panel was friendly and encouraging.
General Tips: Nice interview, questions were well thought out.
Skills: Algorithms And Data Structures
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: What interests me about Microsoft is the nature and the scale of the work they're doing. Every day they impact billions of people worldwide, and I would love to be a part of this organization.
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