Novartis Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Q1. Interview with operational manager with no SAS skill.
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Q2. Chat on previous working experience.
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Q1. Technical interview with functional manager.
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Q2. Difference between where and if. Ways to debug macros. Few questions on statistics e.g. multiple pairwise comparison adjustments.
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Q1. Where are you with right now?
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I am currently at my home office preparing for the interview.
• I am in my home office

• I am preparing for the interview

• I have all the necessary documents and materials with me

• I am focused and ready to answer any questions
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Q2. How did you come to know about the requirement here?
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Q3. Tell me a little about the market strength that Novartis captures around in your city?
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Q4. Tell me in brief about the upper physiology of your body that deals with the branch of nervous system and what are the peculiar diseases that people most often happen to suffer with in this regard?
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Q5. If selected, which area would you be opting for to work in the North-East among the four vacant headquarters --- Guwahati, Tezpur, Dimapur, and Agartala?
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Q6. Currently, what are you drawing upto your pocket?
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Q7. Novartis will offer you with its full company benefits only after you have completed satisfactorily with your performances during your initial 6 months probation period, until which you will be kept with ...read more
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

It consisted of three coding questions in a medium to a hard range of difficulty along with 25 Technical MCQ(s) to be answered in an hour.

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Maximum Size Rectangle Sub-matrix with All 1's Problem Statement
You are provided with an N * M sized binary matrix 'MAT' where 'N' denotes the number of rows and 'M' denotes the number of columns. Your t...read more
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The task is to find the maximum size of a submatrix consisting of all 1's in a given binary-valued matrix.
• Iterate through each cell of the matrix

• For each cell, calculate the maximum size of a submatrix with that cell as the top-left corner

• Keep track of the maximum size encountered so far

• Return the maximum size
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Count the Number of Ones Problem Statement
Given an integer N, calculate the total number of times the digit '1' appears in each number from 0 to N inclusive.
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T (number of test cases)
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The task is to count the number of occurrences of the digit '1' in each number from 0 to N.
• Iterate through each number from 0 to N

• Convert each number to a string

• Count the number of occurrences of the digit '1' in the string representation of each number

• Return the total count of '1's
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

My interview lasted an hour. It was all virtual and a “Microsoft teams” link was sent to the shortlisted candidates for this round. Two interviewers were interviewing one student at a time. I introduced myself and then the interviewers directly asked me to talk about my projects. The questions asked were mostly from the projects, research papers (if any) from the resume. In-depth knowledge of the projects done as needed. My research paper particularly took their attention which was based on Deep Learning and I had to explain my project in detail for about 20–25 minutes. They asked various typical questions on Deep Learning Algorithms (Why, How, etc). The interviewers tried to pressure me into changing my answers being confident was the key. Then they asked some questions from Java, OOPs, and DBMS. One of the interviewers asked me to rate my proficiency in Java on a scale from 1 to 10. Lastly, to check my problem-solving skills they gave me a mathematical formula and asked me to prove it by drawing a geometrical shape on a graph. I thought for a minute and came up with the answer and they were impressed.

Round duration - 20 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It lasted 20 mins. The HR interviewer was very friendly.

Maths: related to business, growth, contribution

Case study of any other industries, to check the approach

Q1. What's the vision for this role
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Q2. Any business related situation
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Q3. What makes you suitable for this position
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Q4. How to handle tough situation
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Q5. How to utilise and coordinate various departments
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Utilize effective communication and collaboration to align departmental goals and objectives.
• Establish clear communication channels between departments

• Identify common goals and objectives

• Encourage cross-functional collaboration and teamwork

• Regularly review progress and adjust strategies as needed

• Provide training and resources to support interdepartmental coordination

• Example: Marketing and Sales departments working toge...read more
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