Nutanix Technical Project Manager Interview Questions and Answers

Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

It was Technical + Aptitude MCQ round.The technical section consisted if MCQ related to DSA,OS,DBMS.The aptitude section consisted of questions related to basic mathematics.

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Candies Distribution Problem Statement
Prateek is a kindergarten teacher with a mission to distribute candies to students based on their performance. Each student must get at least one candy, and if two s...read more
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The task is to distribute candies to students based on their performance while minimizing the total candies distributed.
• Create an array to store the minimum candies required for each student.

• Iterate through the students' ratings array to determine the minimum candies needed based on the given criteria.

• Consider the ratings of adjacent students to decide the number of candies to distribute.

• Calculate the total candies req...read more
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Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

It was a technical interview testing the basic skills of OS and DBMS of candidates along with few project discussions from your CV.

Q1. Can you write 15 Linux commands along with their functions?
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List of 15 Linux commands with their functions
• ls - list directory contents

• pwd - print working directory

• cd - change directory

• mkdir - make a new directory

• rm - remove files or directories

• cp - copy files and directories

• mv - move or rename files and directories

• grep - search for patterns in files

• chmod - change file permissions

• ps - display information about running processes

• top - display and update sorted information about pr...read more
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Q2. What are DDL (Data Definition Language) and DML (Data Manipulation Language)?
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DDL is used to define the structure of database objects, while DML is used to manipulate data within those objects.
• DDL includes commands like CREATE, ALTER, DROP to define database objects like tables, indexes, etc.

• DML includes commands like INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE to manipulate data within tables.

• Example of DDL: CREATE TABLE employees (id INT, name VARCHAR(50));

• Example of DML: INSERT INTO employees VALUES (1, 'John Doe
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Q1. Project worked in ur previus company
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Q2. Explain in detail what tools used, how you deployed etc
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Q1. Know about the current roles and responsibilities and fitment for the further technical rounds
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Q1. Detailed discussion around the current roles and responsibilities and scenario based questions were picked from those discussion points.
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UCAT round as per standard process

Q1. Discussion with a US director on few project management questions, they were looking for a .Net stack experienced person, however I was a Java tech stack person since the begining, it appears this particul...read more
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Q1. Transaction in Spring Boot
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Transactions in Spring Boot help manage database operations as a single unit of work.
• Transactions ensure ACID properties (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) for database operations.

• Use @Transactional annotation to mark a method as transactional.

• Transactions can be managed programmatically using TransactionTemplate.

• Rollback can be triggered manually in case of exceptions.

• Spring Boot supports both declarative
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Q2. Java Array and problem solving
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Q1. Product roadmap
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Q1. Favorite product
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My favorite product is the iPhone because of its sleek design, user-friendly interface, and seamless integration with other Apple products.
• Sleek design

• User-friendly interface

• Seamless integration with other Apple products
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Q2. Past experience
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Q1. Resume overview
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Q2. Product case studies
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Q1. Questions were mostly around system design, you will be given a case like a stock system and specific use case is asked to design end to end from UI to backend.
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Q2. Some of the system debugging/performance improvement questions are asked from both UI and backend.
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