Phonon Communications UX Designer Interview Questions and Answers

Round: Test
Experience: 30 MCQ questions testing basic logical reasoning, quantitative aptitude, analytical skills.
2 coding questions --I skipped 1st that was a mistake as it was the easiest. Basic array adhoc question.
2nd-greedy algorithm based find number of platforms for a train schedule.
1 API coding on trie data structure. Functions were all there. Problem--Given a word with a letter missing...find and print possible words from the dictionary. for example--
Input- dristisofts 5
Output- drishtisofts
drisetisofts
1 debugging question-toughest of them all for me...2d-matrix find the rectangle with largest sum.
Tips: Basic Level of Questions for me. I never explicitly prepared for those. Doable.
Try both 1st and 2nd...they will be easy...C and java are only possible languages given so can't use stl.
API will be easy only lengthy...don't panic...
If you have time, you will try 4th.

Duration: 180 minutes
Total Questions: 34

Round: Test
Experience: Completely networking based problem. based on TCP protocol. packets are being dropped and changed find a way to stop it. I was able to pass all test cases. (they were having some internal problems with there test cases).
Tips: Exciting round. Use re-transmission and sequence id and hash coding. Focus on everything. Interviews will be based on these.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 1

Round: Test
Experience: N=4. find errors and generalise for N.
Tips: Easy-peasy.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 1

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Lovely experience. Duration -2hours. Interviewer was a chill guy. Interview started with some light moments and we discussed about my experience with the company I did my internship with. Then there was questioning about what I did in my API coding round. I was asked to explain point by point about how I understood the problem and how I solved it. Then he started grilling me on questions based on it. One by one questions were put in some way that I had to revisit everything what I learnt in my 2nd year about transmission protocol. Everything, starting with what was the hash code used to how the window size is decided and how to reduce traffic by sending cumulative ack.
Tips: Better prepare networking before coming. Everything, every exception.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I was asked to tell any two of my projects. And this is where I think I got an edge over others. My resume was filled with many projects and we discussed two of my most recent projects. I had learnt about Oauth protocol and RESTful APIs so we discussed about it. Then there was this problem about a company visiting for campus recruiting wanting to conduct a test on Hackerearth + what if lights went off and students want to continue where they had left --the problem was to design a databse based on these conditions and then some questions were asked on the database I had made. Finally there was an interview scheduling problem.50 students. 3 rounds(1->P1,P2 2->P2,P3 3->P4). design an algorithm to conduct the interviews taking minimum time to process all 50 students.
Tips: Prepare your projects and DBMS as well. Be confident, build approaches to tackle problems and try finding loopholes in it and then work on those. They will be focussing more on how you will tackle a general problem and not the solution.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Introductions with family background. Psychometric test. and then I was told to ask about the company. Interviewer was very cool.
Tips: Easy - peasy.

General Tips: Do away with any nervousness. The interviewers will be extremely friendly. Just do your best. If you know it, it isn't that hard. Hints would be given. They just test your approach and knowledge of the subject.
Skill Tips: TCP concepts and socket programming. Projects on that would be lovely.
Skills: Networking, DBMS
College Name: NIT Jalandhar
Funny Moments: The interview was held in guest rooms lying down on bed. I was even asked to take rest and sleep for an hour before interviews alongside their bed.

Round: Test
Experience: The online test had two sections. First had simple objective aptitude questions.
The other section had coding problems.
There were 4 questions.
Two were adhoc problems.
In the other two we had to add code to solve the problem.

I did well in the objective section and did 3 of the coding problems.
Duration: 180 minutes

Round: Test
Experience: We were given code of n-queen problem which had some errors in it.

We were given the task to correct the code and explain it.

I did it well in time.
Duration: 30 minutes

Round: Test
Experience: In this round we were given a problem statement.
What we had to do was to implement a client and server side.
Basic code was given.

What we had to do was to implement code that could detect message alteration or if there was a packet drop.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This round went for almost 2 hours.
It was more of a discussion. It was on the developer's coding round. The interviewer was very cool. He tested all my knowledge about networking. The discussion on the software model went on and he kept on giving me more and more exception conditions which I had to solve for the problem.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This round also went for another 2 hours.
The interviewer asked me to pick any 2 of my projects and explain it to him.
After I explained the projects he gave me a question on DP.
It was also more of a discussion. I wasn't able to give him the correct answer in the end.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was a very cool round. He asked me to fill in a form and asked me if I had any queries about the company.
Then he asked me some basic HR questions. This round was like a formality not a elimination round.

Skills:
College Name: NIT Jalandhar

Round: Test
Experience: Moderate stuff was there, not very difficult to crack.
Tips: Just try to stay cool and solve the questions.
Duration: 90 min minutes
Total Questions: 50-60

Round: Test
Experience: There were 3 coding questions.
One of them was from linked-list (a simple one)
And another was from the tree (to be solved by recursion and this one was also easy)
And the last question was from Dynamic Programming (moderate difficulty)
Tips: Solve the two easy questions with the best possible algorithm that you can.
And if you are able to solve the last one then its ok otherwise don't leave it, atleast write some lines of code.
And I would like to suggest geeksforgeeks for the preparation of this coding round.
Duration: 90 min minutes
Total Questions: 3

Round: Test
Experience: I was given 2 questions with their codes (one of them was of 100 lines and another code was about 250 lines).
Both the codes were having some errors and we have to rectify them.
First of all I was asked to understand the given codes and draw a flow chart describing the algorithm of the code.
And then I was asked to find out the errors in the given code.
Tips: Just stick to the code.
This round was not that much easy as the previous ones.
You have to stick to the code till the last.
Duration: 3 hours minutes
Total Questions: 2

Round: Test
Experience: I was given some APIs of a server and I have to write a client program that uses these APIs to design a game for knight-moves in a 8X8 chess board.
Tips: The main issue was there in synchronising the client requests to the server.
You must have the basic knowledge of server-client programs.
Duration: 3 hours minutes
Total Questions: 1

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I don't remember the questions but this round was not so difficult as the last two rounds.
There were simple technical questions related to what you have done in your internship and basic OS,DBMS.
Tips: Stay calm and look relaxed.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Most of the questions were about my family background.
Tips: Just keep calm and smiling.
Don't try to over-react and the most important thing is be yourself.

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: Follow geeksforgeeks and do practise the server-client programs.
Skills: Coding, Client-Server Programs, Aptitude , OS basics, OOPs, DBMS, Reasoning skills
College Name: NIT DURGAPUR
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.

Topics to prepare for Jio Analyst interview:

• Data Analysis

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be in good shape and try to give answer to every question and be patient

Round: Test
Experience: It was a simple aptitude test in which around 150 students cleared the test.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 40

Round: Test
Experience: Three programs were given and we had to write the code in either java ,c or c++ and get the required output.Around 90 students cleared this round.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 3

College Name: VIT Vellore

Round: Test
Experience: The test was conducted through Cocubes. It was moderately difficult. Some of the questions are time taking. We need to be decisive in attempting such questions.
Tips: Need to manage time properly. Should assess and choose which questions to attempt and which ones to leave.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 30

Round: Test
Experience: The three questions are of three different levels.

1. You will be given two numbers. The first one is the starting point and the second one is the ending point of a range of integers. You have to count the number of integers in that range which are divisible by the first number.

Ex : INPUT : 3 18
OUTPUT : 6

2. You will be given a number. You have to find the sum of the digits. If the sum exceeds 9, you have to add the digits of the sum recursively until you a get a single digit sum.

EX : INPUT : 9999
OUTPUT : 9

Explanation: 9999 => 9 +9+9+9=36 => 3+6 =9

3. You will be given an array of characters which include ( L, R , or a number in the range '0' to '9'). A ball is kept on a line of integers initially kept at zero. The ball has to execute the instructions sequentially as follows:
(i) If an 'L' character is encountered, the ;position of the ball has to be decremented.
(ii) If an 'R' character is encountered, the position of the ball has to be incremented.
(iii) If an integer (in the range '0' to '9) is encountered , we have to go to that index in the array and execute the instruction present in that index.

Finally, after all the instructions are executed, you have to print the final position of the ball.

EX : INPUT :
Number of instruction : 5
Instructions: LR1R2

OUTPUT : 3

Explanation :
(i) Initially, the ball is at 0. Since the 0th index in the array is 'L' , the ball moves to 0-1= -1 position.
(ii) The 1st index is 'R' hence, the position of the ball is -1 +1 = 0 position.
(iii) The 2nd index is '1', hence we have to go to index 1 in the array which is 'R', hence the new position is 0+1 =1.
(iv) The 3rd index is 'R', hence the new position is 1 +1 =2.
(v) The 4th index is '2' , hence we have to go to 2nd index is '1' , hence we have to go again to 1st index , which is 'R' hence the final position is 2+1 =3.

Tips: We need to solve all the three the problems to have better chances of clearing this round.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 3

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The interview was focussed majorly on coding. It went for about 45min with around 10 coding problems given to solve. Some basics of Computer networking are also tested in this round.
Tips: Be prepared with some basics of networking. As the company's main focus is on Telecom, good knowledge in telecom and networking would be a big advantage.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This round was focused on the aptitude and reasoning skills. Some puzzles were given in this round. These puzzles are of moderately complex and are more common ones in interviews. Like the (find the heavier ball among three balls using a balance in min no. of attempts).
Tips: Sometimes the interviewer tries to confuse. You need to be confident with your answers and explaination.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The interview was more of a traditional HR round. Majorly concentrated on the final year project, personal strengths and weaknesses.

Skills: Coding Skills, Computer Networking, C Language Basics
College Name: G Pulla Reddy College of Engineering & Technology

Round: Test
Experience: There were 40 aptitude questions of variable difficulty. More questions revolved around topics like time and work, distance, speed, time, profit loss, age etc.
Tips: A regular and prior preparation will go a long way in determining a good test score.
Use tricks to solve the questions and calculations should be fast.
Duration: 30 minutes
Total Questions: 40

Round: Test
Experience: The questions weren't that tough when it came to programming. An example would be conversion of temperature from Celsius to Fahrenheit and vice versa. This was a question in my paper. So I'm hoping the difficulty would be more or less the same.
Tips: Do certified programming courses. They help you a lot in cracking good jobs.
Duration: 45 minutes
Total Questions: 3

Round: Puzzle Interview
Tips: This can be tough if you can't imagine scenarios and situations. So make sure you inculcate critical problem solving thinking in your everyday life. I feel that's the best way to do things in this round.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This was a short interview so not much happened.
Tips: Whatever you do just know your stuff properly.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was a simple interview. Basic questions and their basic answers helped me get through it.
Tips: The tip would be to stay positive in your approach while answering the questions

Skills: Technical Skills, Interpersonal Communication, Aptitude
College Name: VIT Vellore