Nexus Student Intern Interview Questions and Answers

General Tips: I joined HCL as a fresher and got Intervie

Round: Test
Experience: Aptitude, reasoning, logical, etc. 2 hours

Round: Test
Experience: Aptitude was quite easy they just asked us basic questions from Math,logical reasoning and english
Tips: Just think well before u do..
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 40

Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: It was face to face .. the interviewee asked questions from our resume... Since I m from computer science background they asked some technical questions..

Tips: Beware filling ur resume.. they will ask every stuff that you have in resume

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Discussion about my project that i vr done in my final year.they asked me what was my role in my project

College Name: Sri ganesh college of engineering and technology

Round: Test
Experience: there were 20 MCQ which were on ds , networks and basic coding followed by 2 coding questions.
1) print all the distinct substrings of a given string in lexicographical order
2) find the max i-j value in the given array of 0's and 1's such that there are equal number of zeros and ones, where i is the starting index and j is the ending index of the array.
Tips: make sure that you pass atleast half the test cases for both the question.
Duration: 90 minutes
Total Questions: 22

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 1) i printed left view then leaves and right view using three level order traversals . he asked me to use one traversal only, then i told him the approach and wrote the working code.
2) told him the approach and coded it.
Tips: look at corner cases properly. the interviewers were friendly, so i felt relaxed.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 1) i told him a recursive O(2^n) solution, optimised it to O(n^2). he told me to optimise further. Then i finally came up with O(n) solution after 5 min and he was satisfied . i coded it. he was satisfied finally :D .
2) came up with the approach immediately and coded it. he was satisfied.
Tips: he was very particular about corner cases and he checked the code througly tested it on some cases to ensure it was working.

General Tips: be cool. interviewers were friendly. tell them what you are thinking and be clear with the question before answering to avoid wasteage of time.
Skill Tips: solve problems from codechef, spoj and codeforces. solve interview questions from geeksforgeeks and careercup.
Skills: the way you think, coding skills and knowledge on data structures.
Duration: 3
College Name: IIT Roorkee
Motivation: some good seniors got intern, so i was inspired.
Funny Moments: on the interview day a person came into the conference room to call me for interview, i didnt thought he was interviewer. he was very simple, but intelligent and at last i felt like asking him to ask me one more coding question as it was fun solving questions infront of him, but i didnt do that as i was frightened if i would not be able to answer it would be a negative remark :P .

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Extempore was conducted which is almost same as GD. In Extempore round each individual should select his own topic and talk for 2 minutes. Eye donation was the topic selected by me. The main concept of this round is to check the fluency over language
Tips: Be confident in what you speak. Dont get nervoused in this round

Round: Problem Statement
Experience: Extempore was conducted which is almost same as GD. In Extempore round each individual should select his own topic and talk for 2 minutes. Eye donation was the topic selected by me. The main concept of this round is to check the fluency over language
Tips: Be confident in what you speak. Dont get nervoused in this round

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Extempore was the name of the round. It is almost same as GD but instead each candidate should select his own topic and talk for 2 minutes.
Tips: Fluency over language is the main element focused in this round
Duration: 2 hours

Round: Problem Statement
Experience: In this round the candidate should attend online aptitude test for 1 hour. It consists of three parts : Logical part, Reasoning part, Language part. This round is easier one.
Tips: Concentrate more on English grammar

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Shortlisted candidates were called for HR round. For non IT students the main question asked was being a non IT student why do you choose corporate field.
Tips: The answer for this question cannot be provided by myself. Each of you candidates should build a genuine answer for this one

Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: This is the final round of the whole interview process. In this round the candidates were focused asking only on puzzle questions. 3 to 5 questions were asked in this round depending upon the mentality of HR. 75 % score is required to clear this round
Tips: Just Google puzzle questions for interview, then work on those questions. You will get an idea on how to clear this round

Round: Problem Statement
Experience: coding and submission before face to face interview shortlisting
Tips: practice coding ,coding is key to success for SE

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: based on marks ,I was called for F2F
Tips: the ppt was to be submitted explaining the approach

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: a lot of brain storming
Tips: understands the nitty gritty of the structs and algos

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: exact code was to be written instead of pseudo code
Tips: get hold of DS,Algos