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SDE-2 Interview Questions

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posted on 31 May 2022

I was interviewed in May 2022.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Face to Face Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Round started with an intro about the project. In my project i have mentioned that i had use Cassandra. The interviewer asked why use Cassandra , why not other No Sql database.
After that the interviewer started asking about the java concepts. How exception propagate takes in case of polymorphism.
There a question about multilevel inheritance. There were three classes parent, child , grandchild in a multlevel inheritance.
All three classes have a function with same name.
Question was about if we call a method something like this 
Parent p = new Grandchild();
p.method1();
which class method would be called

  • Q1. First Missing Positive You are given an array 'ARR' of integers of length N. Your task is to find the first missing positive integer in linear time and ...read more
2

Video Call Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Interviewer started with some questions about Database locks .
I had to prepare a low level design of the library management system.
Then there were follow up questions regarding how many database table you will use, normalizing those databse table, writing the service logic for one of the functionality

  • Q1. System Design Question

    Library management System

3

HR Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was managerial round. They asked few questions about the project and why you use this particular technology.

  • Q1. Basic HR questions

    Questions about project and why the use of this particular technology

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaNo criteriaMorgan Stanley interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures,Java 8 new features,Low Level Design,Database indexes and locksKnowledge of ProjectTime required to prepare for the interview - 3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Be very clear with java basics, polymorphism in multilevel inheritance. Future, callable, completable furture in concurrency, stream api.Concurrent hash map, Database locks , how Database indexes are fast.
Tip 2 : In 2 round they are going to make you do a low level design for an application. In my case it was library management system, Be ready for the follow up questions like how many tables are you going to use this low level design, normalizing the tables you have used. Write logic for one of the service in the low level design.
Tip 3 : For the managerial round, you should know why you used this partcular tech stack.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Only mention those things in projects which you have really done in your organization. Morgan stanley is particular rigorous about the projects. 
Tip 2 : Be sure to highlight what business values your project brought to the organization

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Jul 2024.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

DSA, Leetcode medium -2 problems

2

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Easy Leetcode Problem: Count of substrings with no repeating characters
  • Q2. Debugging a Java Code
3

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Design Parking System

Skills evaluated in this interview

SDE-2 Interview Questions

American Express user image CodingNinjas

posted on 21 May 2022

I was interviewed in Jan 2022.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Video Call Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was a L1 technical round where questions from DS algo were asked, along with my work exp and projects. It was a face to face video round with 2 panel members

  • Q1. Find Number Of Islands You are given a 2-dimensional array/list having N rows and M columns, which is filled with ones(1) and zeroes(0). 1 signifies land, and 0...read more
  • Q2. System Design Question

    How to prevent breaking of singleton pattern using reflections?

2

Video Call Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

It was a System design round and the interviewer was very friendly, he gave ample hints and it was a productive interaction.

  • Q1. System Design Question

    Design LRU cache.

3

HR Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 45 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was a standard manager where I was asked many questions related to my work exp and behavioural questions

  • Q1. Basic HR Questions

    Tell me a difficult situation in your previous job role.
    Why are you changing jobs?

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI completed Computer Science Engineering from IIIT,BBSR. I applied for the job as SDE - 2 in GurgaonEligibility criteriaNoAmerican Express interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, OOPS, System Design, Java, DatabaseTime required to prepare for the interview - 2 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Focus on Core Java and development 
Tip 2 : Practise easy -medium questions

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Projects should be well defined use bullet points
Tip 2 : Describe your work ex/ intern exp well

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. OOPS Concepts,Java Coding,Testing
2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Selenium, APIs, Automation

Sdet Engineer Interview Questions

BNY user image Anonymous

posted on 17 Sep 2024

Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is salary expectating?
  • Q2. What is your experience
Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Jul 2023.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

It was a combined technical + aptitude round consisted of different sections. No codes only has to write algo

2

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Lot of questions from oops
  • Q2. DBMS,CN,Operating systems
3

HR Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Project based discussion
  • Q2. Asked about the technical round

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare dsa, and other core subjects weel bcoz it depends on interviewer to chose the topic of questions
Interview experience
2
 Poor
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

3 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

70mins on java code,and MCQ

2

Coding Test Round

On Java programming 40 minutes

3

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Did not clear 2nd round
Interview experience
1
 Bad
Difficulty level
 Hard
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
 No response

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Feb 2023.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

Quant and verbal ability

2

Coding Test Round

Questions from DSA and webdevelopement

3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. About my goals with the company and how will I contribute to it.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well and try to answer question in your own words rather than looking online for them

Sde1 Interview Questions

Wells Fargo user image Anonymous

posted on 2 Sep 2022

I applied via campus placement at Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Ranchi and was interviewed before Sep 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

2 coding question, 1 section of business aptitude and 1 section english.

2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Design a chess game.
  • Q2. N queens problem. Minimum steps by knight.
3

Telephonic Call Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Hr questions were asked. And location preference.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident. Tell truth. Know your resume well.

Skills evaluated in this interview

SDE-2 Interview Questions

JPMorgan Chase & Co. user image CodingNinjas

posted on 14 Sep 2021

I was interviewed in Mar 2021.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Video Call Round (3 Questions)

Round duration - 80 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

  • Q1. Increasing Path In Matrix You are given a 2-D matrix ‘mat’, consisting of ’N’ rows and ‘M’ columns. The element at the i-th row and j-th column is ‘mat[i][j]’. ...read more
  • Q2. Design Data Structure Design Data structure like Queue in which you have to get the middle element in  O(1),  then update that value and do some modif...read more
  • Q3. Basic Interview Questions

    Probability Questions, Some OOPS Question with the Advance concept in java, and Some SQL queries

2

Video Call Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 50 minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

It was purely Data Structures and Maths.

  • Q1. Arithmetic Progression Queries Given an integer array(ARR) of size N, the following operations need to be performed: update(l, r, val) : Add (val + i) to arr[l ...read more
  • Q2. Probability Questions What is the probability of getting a sum of 22 or more when four dice are thrown? Fifteen people sit around a circular table. What are odd...read more
3

Video Call Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 70 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

  • Q1. Technical Questions Discussion over- Checked my Github profile and asked lots of questions on projects. Microservices, Acid Compliance properties, Messaging Que...read more
4

Coding Test Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

  • Q1. Pattern Matching You are given a pattern in the form of a string and a collection of words. Your task is to determine if the pattern string and the collection o...read more

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI completed Computer Science Engineering from Maharaja Surajmal Institute Of Technology. I applied for the job as SDE - 2 in MumbaiEligibility criteriaNoJPMorgan Chase & Co. interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures and Algorithms, OOPS, Probability, System Design, Project (thoroughly).Time required to prepare for the interview - 2 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : I solved Interviewbit mostly
Tip 2 : Revised my Coding Ninjas Course 
Tip 3 : Created One Project (Helped me a lot during Design Interview )

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : I have done some internship as a Software Developer.
Tip 2 : Have some good project on my resume.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

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