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Updated 4 Sep 2024

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Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Life cycle of thread
  • Ans. 

    Thread life cycle includes new, runnable, running, blocked, and terminated states.

    • Thread is created in 'new' state

    • It becomes 'runnable' when start() method is called

    • Thread enters 'running' state when CPU starts executing its run() method

    • It can go to 'blocked' state if it's waiting for a resource

    • Finally, thread reaches 'terminated' state when run() method completes or stop() method is called

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. İnternal working of hash map
  • Ans. 

    Hash map is a data structure that stores key-value pairs and uses a hash function to map keys to their corresponding values.

    • Hash map consists of an array of buckets, each containing a linked list of key-value pairs.

    • When inserting a key-value pair, the hash function is used to determine the index of the bucket where the pair should be stored.

    • To retrieve a value, the hash function is used to find the corresponding bucket...

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Salary expectations
  • Q2. Why I want to change the job
  • Ans. 

    Seeking new challenges, growth opportunities, and a better work-life balance.

    • Looking for new challenges and opportunities to learn and grow

    • Seeking a better work-life balance

    • Interested in working with new technologies or in a different industry

    • Wanting to advance career progression

  • Answered by AI

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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 Questionnaire 

8 Questions

  • Q1. Find a number which occurs odd number of times and all number occurs even number of times
  • Ans. 

    Find an odd occurring number among even occurring numbers.

    • Use XOR operation to cancel out even occurring numbers and get the odd occurring number.

    • Iterate through the array and XOR each element with the result variable.

    • The final result will be the odd occurring number.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Some discussion about my minor project
  • Q3. Spiral order of binary tree and mattrix, print it
  • Ans. 

    Print the spiral order of a binary tree and matrix.

    • For binary tree, use level order traversal and alternate direction for each level.

    • For matrix, use four pointers to traverse in spiral order.

    • Example for binary tree: 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 6 -> 7 -> 8 -> 9

    • Example for matrix: 1 2 3 4 -> 8 7 6 5 -> 9 10 11 12 -> 16 15 14 13

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. Some question about os,dbms
  • Q5. Find pair which have a given sum in a given array
  • Ans. 

    Finding pairs in an array with a given sum.

    • Iterate through the array and for each element, check if the difference between the given sum and the element exists in the array.

    • Use a hash table to store the elements of the array and their indices for faster lookup.

    • If there are multiple pairs with the same sum, return any one of them.

    • If no pair is found, return null or an empty array.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q6. Find total number of k element which have a given avg in a given array in minimum time complexity
  • Ans. 

    Find total number of k element with given avg in an array in minimum time complexity.

    • Use sliding window technique to traverse the array in O(n) time complexity.

    • Maintain a sum variable to keep track of the sum of elements in the window.

    • If the sum of elements in the window is equal to k times the given avg, increment the count.

    • Move the window by subtracting the first element and adding the next element in the array.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q7. Print all elements which in not boundary element in a given binary tree
  • Ans. 

    Printing non-boundary elements of a binary tree

    • Traverse the tree in any order (preorder, inorder, postorder)

    • Check if the current node is not a boundary node (not the first or last node in its level)

    • If it is not a boundary node, print its value

    • Recursively traverse its left and right subtrees

  • Answered by AI
  • Q8. Then some question about process synchronisation,error vs exception,and then 2-3 hr question

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: practice codes on paper
Tips:

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: very good
Tips: please try to explain each and every question in detail

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: my hr round is not taken by them,and some of face 3rd round ,which is HR
Tips: please prepare all types of problem from geeksforgeeks

Skill Tips: please try to understand every problem from geeksforgeeks
Skills: ds
College Name: NIT Bhopal
Motivation: best work culture,and a lots of learning opportunity in this company,and in every 6 month there is a appraisal

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. 1. Explain SCD Type 2 Implementation in Informatica
  • Ans. 

    SCD Type 2 is a technique used to track historical changes in data over time in a data warehouse.

    • SCD Type 2 maintains a separate row for each change in data, with a start and end date.

    • It requires a surrogate key to uniquely identify each row.

    • Informatica provides a built-in SCD Type 2 transformation to implement this technique.

    • Example: tracking changes in customer addresses over time.

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Kindly focus on basic BI terminologies, common to trivial scenarios and introductory information on latest trending tools and technologies.

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Recruitment Consultant and was interviewed in Dec 2020. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Please be 100% technical in java here they will not be any support u need to dig deep lot of complex modules which we cannot understand in depth

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed before Aug 2020. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. All microsoft technologies related

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Nothing

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed before Mar 2021. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Java and OOPS Associated Questions
  • Q2. Spring and Basic Programming Like Sort, Searching

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Don't bother to give interviews it's not a good place to work for.

I applied via Recruitment Consultant and was interviewed in Oct 2020. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. I was mostly asked about the process. First round was technical, mostly on Java
  • Q2. JVM Architecture, Java 9 new feature, collection framework, hibernate
  • Q3. 2nd round was mostly on tools and processes.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Always come prepare with whatever you have mentioned in your resume, if you talking about any tools, you should have end to end knowledge on that, you can't say I used Jenkins and then while answering, you would say I don't know how to create a job or pipeline. That kind of answer is not acceptable.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. 1)Questions were asked related to Oracle plsql langauge and 2) Performance tuning and about 3) my data science master program,and like 4)my most challenging task ever I faced in my carrier.

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Feb 2021. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. - Data Structures and Algo - Core Python specific questions
  • Q2. - Design a Cache and some design based questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - I actually attended a Weekend drive. So in the 1st round almost related to 2/3 DS Algo questions.
2nd round was related to design small cache and little bit on python questions.
3rd round was managerial and some basic technical questions.

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