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Updated 7 Oct 2021

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Interview Questionnaire 

8 Questions

  • Q1. Introduce yourself
  • Q2. Project
  • Q3. Inheritance
  • Q4. Polymorphism
  • Q5. Run time polymorphism
  • Q6. Constructor
  • Q7. Array and Stack
  • Q8. Normilazation

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - You should have good communication skills.

I applied via campus placement at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore and was interviewed before Sep 2020. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Design a database for student management application.
  • Ans. 

    A database for student management application.

    • Create a table for students with fields like name, roll number, email, etc.

    • Create a table for courses with fields like course name, course code, etc.

    • Create a table for enrollment with fields like student ID, course ID, enrollment date, etc.

    • Create a table for grades with fields like student ID, course ID, grade, etc.

    • Use primary and foreign keys to establish relationships bet

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  • Q2. Create a linked list with class and object and perform CRUD operation.
  • Ans. 

    Create and perform CRUD operations on a linked list using class and object.

    • Create a class for the linked list and define the necessary functions for CRUD operations.

    • Create an object of the linked list class and use it to perform the operations.

    • For creating a node, define a class for the node and link it to the linked list class.

    • For updating or deleting a node, traverse the linked list and perform the operation on the d...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - - You should have strong knowledge on class and object and Java.
- Having knowledge of frameworks like Hibernate and Spring Boot is a plus.

Skills evaluated in this interview

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via campus placement at Motilal Nehru Institute National Institute of Technology (NIT), Allahabad and was interviewed in Dec 2023. There were 5 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

It was a MCQ type round with 3 coding questions. This round consisted of questions from aptitude, SQL knowledge and a sql command writing question, Programming basics, Web Technology, 2 coding questions. CS Subjects and some Situational based questions.

Round 2 - Group Discussion 

It was a Just a minute round in which a topic was given by the interviewer to speak upon.

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. What all technologies you feel will be fruitful in learning with regards to your future growth?
Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Explain NOSQL databases and their working?
  • Ans. 

    NOSQL databases are non-relational databases that provide flexible schema design and horizontal scalability.

    • NOSQL databases store data in key-value pairs, wide-column stores, document databases, or graph databases.

    • They are designed for handling large volumes of data and are highly scalable.

    • Examples include MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, and Neo4j.

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Round 5 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Describe the working of your projects and how did you manage with hectic load of your curriculum being a part of your project building which is from some other domain?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just be thorough with whatever is mentioned in your resume and be confident in answering the question. If you are not sure about the answer don’t give it a try it may have a negative impact. Also you should have an in-depth knowledge of your projects.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
More than 8 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Apr 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Find the greatest element in the moving array

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Interviewer Asked me to build Airline Management System
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

A simple coding problem given related to the project.

Round 2 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. HR asked general question like strength and weakness.
Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Sep 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Basic quant topics and a technical question

Round 2 - Group Discussion 

GD is about 10 mins and it is pretty easy

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well for quants and hands on in any one programing language
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jul 2022. There were 5 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

60 mcqs based on probability, profit and loss,speed time,direction

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. 1.Introduction,some basic questions like why you worked on this stack,advantage, disadvantages!....2.open notepad write code to reverse a string and some manipulative questions regarding this!
  • Q2. Bubble sort was asked to code
Round 4 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. 1.Some information regarding project and questions like difficulty faced....2.given some bombs b[i] which can lighted with candles to burst with in t[i] time.also the bombs are linked to one another given ...
Round 5 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Phone call just confirmation round!

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Need to be clear on what is in resume...either projects or dsa need to be very strong!
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via campus placement at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kurukshetra and was interviewed before Jan 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

40 minutes, DSA questions in C++.

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via campus placement at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Khurda and was interviewed before Oct 2022. There were 5 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Don’t add your photo or details such as gender, age, and address in your resume. These details do not add any value.
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Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

Reasoning, maths and clocks based questions.

Round 3 - Coding Test 

2 codings. DSA based.

Round 4 - Technical 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. What are OOPs Concepts?
  • Ans. 

    OOPs Concepts are fundamental principles of Object-Oriented Programming that help in organizing and designing code.

    • Encapsulation: Bundling data and methods that operate on the data into a single unit (object).

    • Inheritance: Allowing a class to inherit properties and behavior from another class.

    • Polymorphism: Ability of objects to take on multiple forms or have multiple behaviors.

    • Abstraction: Hiding the complex implementat...

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  • Q2. What is AVL tree?
  • Ans. 

    AVL tree is a self-balancing binary search tree where the heights of the two child subtrees of any node differ by at most one.

    • AVL tree was named after its inventors Adelson-Velsky and Landis.

    • It is a type of binary search tree where the heights of the two child subtrees of any node differ by at most one.

    • AVL trees are used to maintain a balanced tree structure, ensuring O(log n) time complexity for insertion, deletion, a...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Define LIFO, FIFO etc
  • Ans. 

    LIFO stands for Last In, First Out and FIFO stands for First In, First Out.

    • LIFO: Last In, First Out - the last item added to a stack is the first one to be removed.

    • FIFO: First In, First Out - the first item added to a queue is the first one to be removed.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. Share your college experienceon coding.
  • Ans. 

    I gained hands-on coding experience through coursework, projects, and internships during my college years.

    • Took courses in programming languages such as Java, C++, and Python.

    • Participated in coding competitions and hackathons to enhance my skills.

    • Completed coding projects in areas like web development, data analysis, and software engineering.

    • Interned at a tech company where I worked on real-world coding projects.

    • Collabo...

  • Answered by AI
Round 5 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Introduce yourself (3 mins)
  • Q2. Area of Interests (3 mins)

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just practice for Coding and English. Rest your luck matters.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via campus placement at VNR Vignan Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad and was interviewed before Jul 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

MCQS on Java, HTML, CSS, DSA, JS and OS. Platform was Hackerrank.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare from GFG

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