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

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Mutable and Non-Mutable data type.
  • Ans. 

    Mutable data types can be changed after creation, while non-mutable data types cannot be changed.

    • Mutable data types in Python include lists and dictionaries.

    • Non-mutable data types in Python include tuples and strings.

    • Changing a mutable data type will modify the original object, while changing a non-mutable data type will create a new object.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Write code for decorator.
  • Ans. 

    A decorator is a design pattern that allows behavior to be added to individual objects, either statically or dynamically, without affecting the behavior of other objects.

    • Decorators are functions that take another function and extend its behavior without explicitly modifying it.

    • They are commonly used in Python to add functionality to existing functions or classes.

    • Example: Adding logging to a function using a decorator.

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

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 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about any of the design patterns you are familiar with
  • Ans. 

    I am familiar with design patterns such as Singleton, Factory, Observer, and MVC.

    • Singleton pattern ensures a class has only one instance and provides a global point of access to it.

    • Factory pattern creates objects without specifying the exact class of object that will be created.

    • Observer pattern defines a one-to-many dependency between objects so that when one object changes state, all its dependents are notified and up...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Design a system for a company in hospitality
  • Ans. 

    Design a system for a company in hospitality

    • Implement a centralized reservation system for booking rooms, tables, and other services

    • Incorporate a customer feedback system to gather reviews and ratings for continuous improvement

    • Include a staff scheduling and management module to efficiently allocate resources

    • Integrate a payment gateway for secure transactions and invoicing

    • Utilize data analytics to track customer prefere

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. How and where did you implement threads
  • Ans. 

    Implemented threads in a multi-threaded application to improve performance and concurrency.

    • Implemented threads in a multi-threaded application to handle multiple tasks concurrently

    • Used threads to improve performance by parallelizing tasks

    • Implemented threads in a web server to handle multiple client requests simultaneously

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. DSA questions I don't remember but they were from leetcode and gfg. Focus on Medium level more than easy or hard. Also heap

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Interview Questionnaire 

4 Questions

  • Q1. One coding question.
  • Q2. Questions on Data Structures
  • Q3. Logical Question: You are a captive. If you say the right answer, the assasin will hang you, if you say the wrong answer, he will shoot you. How do you escape?
  • Q4. Other aptitude questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Other Interview
Experience: One year since I took the interview, so no idea exactly what questions they asked. But I was asked to write the code on paper in front of him and was asked to debug it. Some puzzles and aptitude questions along with other basic coding questions. It was great that the guy was interactive and started asking about my projects and college life.
Btw the answer to the logical question is: I should say " you will shoot me". Paradoxical.
Tips: Feel free to ask anything that you would like to know from them. Also frankly say that you don't know a certain topic if you have no clue what it is about. They don't like people wasting their time.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: This was not exactly a technical interview. He asked me to write a code to find the day of week when a certain date in any year of the calendar is given. I answered it and then he starting asking general questions as to why do u want to join the company, etc.
I gave answers to most of them convincingly. But I kept him engaged by explaining my life at college, the extra curriculars I did at college. Also I asked him about his experience as a software engineer. I asked him to reflect upon his career and how I should approach about my career.
Tips: The best part about HR interviews is they expect you to ask them lots and lots of questions. The more they are engaged, the more are your chances of impressing and getting selected. And more importantly, ask the interviewer about his experience with the present firm. This also works with my manager when ever he has a one on one with me :P
Cheers and all the best.

Skills: Soft Skills, General Aptitude, LOGICAL THINKING ABILITIES, Coding Skills And Knowledge On Data Structures
College Name: IIT Hyderabad

I was interviewed before May 2016.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Written Test
Experience: I attended interview at hyderabad location for java Sr.Software Engineer.
1Q) Find out given string palindrome or not.
Ex: madam
2Q) Find first and last index searching number in a array.
Ex: [1,2,3,3,3,3,4,5]
Output : 2,5
3Q) Arrange Strings in alphabetical order.

Tips: Prepare numeric and string related algorithms

I was interviewed in Dec 2016.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Programming section had basic questions on C++ & data structures.
Tips: Try to score maximum in aptitude test, they consider your score while placement.
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 35

Round: Technical Interview 1
Experience: Questions asked during this round:
Introduce yourself.
Questions on projects & internships.
Questions on Final year project in detail (max part of interview was on final year project).
Basic concepts of C++.
Few programs on C++.
Puzzles.


Round: Technical Interview 2
Experience: ? 2 interviewers were there.
? Stressed interview.
? They grilled me a lot on C++ & data structures.
One interviewer started asking questions, and before I could complete my answer, another used to cut me in
middle & start asking another question. I realized it

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: It was an easy test overall, basic programming things were asked in technical part of test whereas aptitude questions were also relatively easy.
Tips: You just need to know things which were there in CS101 for technical part of test .Nothing else is required.
Duration: 30 minutes
Total Questions: 1

Skills: Problem
College Name: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Interview Questionnaire 

11 Questions

  • Q1. Print all nodes at a distance k from a given node in binary tree?
  • Q2. RandN function : which generates random number in [1,2,3..N] with equal probability. Given rand5, write a code for rand7 using rand5
  • Ans. 

    Code for rand7 using rand5 function

    • Use rand5 twice to generate a number in [1,25] with equal probability

    • If the number is greater than 21, discard and try again

    • Otherwise, return (number mod 7) + 1

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Puzzle: Using all(8,8,3,3) and only operators(*,/,-,+), make 24
  • Q4. How do you implement LRU cache?
  • Ans. 

    LRU cache is implemented using a doubly linked list and a hash map.

    • Create a doubly linked list to keep track of the order of elements in the cache.

    • Create a hash map to store the key-value pairs of the cache.

    • When a new element is added, check if the cache is full. If it is, remove the least recently used element from the linked list and the hash map.

    • When an element is accessed, move it to the front of the linked list to...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. Your current project in Company? A lot of questions from CV? Discussion went on for about 15 minutes?
  • Q6. Then had a lot of questions around java script and java. About different design patterns and web services
  • Q7. A lot of questions around java, collections frameworks, multi threading and so on. (This took a good 25-30 minutes )
  • Q8. A strategy question. It would be asked depending on which team you are being interviewed for.Mine was some apple seller problem. Here knowledge of real world scenario helps. Advice is to observe things aro...
  • Q9. Write down function to select pivot element randomly in Quick Sort
  • Ans. 

    Function to randomly select pivot element in Quick Sort

    • Generate a random index within the range of the array

    • Return the element at the randomly generated index as the pivot

  • Answered by AI
  • Q10. He asked me what is a data structure and why do we use one. Explained him. He asked some real life example of stack and queue. All I could gave him was programming examples but when he insisted on real li...
  • Q11. As we were talking very much on each question. He felt like talking more and from tech he went around for some biggest learning from a mistake/biggest achievement of life kind of questions. There were oth...

Interview Preparation Tips

General Tips: I recently interviewed with Goldman Sachs, and had 4 rounds of interview with them at their campus in Bangalore.
Skills: Algorithm, Data structure
College Name: na

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Asked many Dbsa questions. You need to be thorough about the joins in the databases.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Practice questions on Indiabix.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Operating Systems basics, Dbsa basics

General Tips: 1: Be Confident.
2: Keep Smiling.
3: Do not be Panic.
4: Remember they are here to hire you but not reject you.
5: Do not loose hope.
6: Believe at yourself.
7: Start preparing early.
8: Do demo interviews with your friend.
Skill Tips: Make sure you do a course on object oriented programming
Skills: C, Sql, Java
College Name: BITS PILANI
Motivation: Every body joins a comapny for making a software or earning money. But I was always motivated to MAKE MONEY. I have taken this job because they have very extensive work in Share Market and they have lots of MBA from IIM's, Lots of CAs, CS. Thats why i have choosen Edelweiss. I have rejected epic System USA for this profile.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: The written test was quite similar to the typical CAT pattern. It contained sections on Reading Comprehension, Data Interpretation and Mathematics.

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: There were 2 interviewers in the first interview, one was a technical guy and the other was from HR. They asked me a few very simple puzzles, a few basic programming questions (swapping the value of two variables etc.), questions related to the development cycle of software products. The HR guy asked stuff like what do you want to achieve in life? Strengths, weaknesses etc.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: The third interview was the most important one (and I guess that was the deciding interview). The interviewer started with questions like why finance? Which companies are you sitting for? Then he gave me a case study:

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Oops, os, dbms, project
  • Q2. Why hsbc, why should I hire you.
  • Ans. 

    I have a strong background in software engineering and a passion for innovation, making me a valuable asset to HSBC.

    • I have a proven track record of successfully delivering high-quality software solutions in previous roles.

    • I am highly skilled in various programming languages and technologies, including Java, Python, and SQL.

    • I have experience working in agile development environments, allowing me to adapt quickly to chan...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: 4 sections, 15 questions each. Sections on apti, english, programming, technical.
Tips: Time management, complete english and technical first
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 60

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: We were asked which super hero would you like to be. Shared the information. Always present the positives and negatives and emphasize that despite of being negatives
Tips: Think everything through before speaking
Duration: 40 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Prepare well, anything can be asked on the things written on your resume

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Sell yourself. Tell them why you would be the best candidate.
Tips: Tell your advantages of being a fresher that you would be comfortable in any technology

College Name: Acropolis institute of technology and research
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