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Updated 31 May 2022

Red Hat Software Engineer Intern Interview Experiences

3 interviews found

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Dec 2021. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

4 Questions

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself?
  • Q2. Explain how did you build your projects?
  • Q3. Write a Program to print all Prime Numbers up to the number provided as input. (Prime Sieve Algorithm)
  • Ans. 

    Program to print all Prime Numbers up to the input number using Prime Sieve Algorithm.

    • Create a boolean array of size n+1 and initialize all values as true.

    • Loop through the array starting from 2 and mark all multiples of each prime number as false.

    • Print all the numbers that are still marked as true in the array.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. Puzzle 34 from Geeks For Geeks

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - I prepared a lot on CS subjects mainly OS, DBMS, CN, OOPs. They did not ask me a single question from there. I did not think they can ask for puzzles in the technical interview.
Always expect the unexpected and have a look at everything that's available.

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Whatsapp group and was interviewed before May 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Hacker Rank platform, where I was given two coding Questions.
1. Related to Huffman Code. I solve using Heaps.
2. Second Question related to matrix to find the area of the rectangle.
I solved both Questions.

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. It was 1-2 interaction with the interviewers. It was 2 interviewers. But I interviewed by only one person, later I interviewed by another person in other day. They asked Questions from my Resume. Mainly th...
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. It is Management Round interviewed by one of the managers in India. He ask about my feature goals. Why did you now about RedHat, Know about Opensource. Give some puzzles and ask me to solve this. Firstly I...

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Red Hat Software Engineer Intern interview:
  • DSA
  • Python
  • Present Technologies
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Keep Learning and practicing until you get better position. Be Confident when your telling answers. This was my first mistake when I attending interviews.

Software Engineer Intern Interview Questions Asked at Other Companies

Q1. Check if two trees are MirrorYou are given two arbitrary binary t ... read more
asked in NCR Voyix
Q2. Search In Rotated Sorted ArrayYou have been given a sorted array/ ... read more
Q3. Connect N Ropes With Minimum CostYou have been given 'N' ropes of ... read more
Q4. Zero MatrixYou are given a matrix 'MATRIX' of dimension 'N' x 'M' ... read more
Q5. Partition a set into two subsets such that the difference of subs ... read more

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Aug 2021. There were 5 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Hackerrank

Round 2 - 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 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Mostly related to the projects you've done in the past
Round 4 - Assignment 

Assignment on Java, Bash

Round 5 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Question related to assignment

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Make sure to go thoroughly thorough you project and learn behind the scenes working as well.
Also, make sure you have decent Java experience as the main tech stack of the company is around Java.

Interview questions from similar companies

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Not Selected
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Coding test on hackerrank

Questions I got were:
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Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. The coding round itself involved creating a class in python that handled the popularity of content on a fictional platform. -----
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell me a time where things didn't go as planned
  • Ans. 

    During a group project in college, our team faced unexpected technical issues that delayed our progress.

    • Our team was working on a group project in college when we encountered unexpected technical issues.

    • The issues caused delays in our progress and required us to come up with alternative solutions.

    • Despite the setbacks, we were able to troubleshoot the problems and successfully complete the project on time.

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - - The interviewers help you a lot!
- I found a lot advice and prep questions before on glassdoor.com and tquest.me as well as reddit discussions which really helped
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Coding questions were easy and aptitude questions were a bit hard

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Binary search based on 2 eggs
  • Q2. Two candles which were of random size, and what is the time to burn one candle completely
  • Ans. 

    The time to burn one candle completely depends on the size of the candles and the rate at which they burn.

    • The time to burn one candle completely is directly proportional to the size of the candle.

    • The rate at which a candle burns can vary based on factors like the material of the candle, the wick, and the environment.

    • For example, a larger candle may take longer to burn completely compared to a smaller candle, even if th

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What was your most impactful project?
  • Q2. What was an obstacle you faced?
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Behavioral, then DSA

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

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed before May 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

2 dsa questions
1st is based on strings (easy)
2nd one ie based on hashmaps (medium)

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. IP address validation dsa
  • Q2. Oops question SQL query on employee database
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Managerial round With questions about Linux commands Behavioral questions Questions about past projects

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for NCR Voyix Software Engineer Intern interview:
  • DSA
  • SQL
  • Java
  • OOPS
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
-
Result
Selected Selected
Round 1 - Coding Test 

It has 4 coding questions ranging from easy to hard.

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. The question was to design a rate limiter where a user can make a maximum of 5 api calls per minute, if the api calls exceeded return false otherwise true. More variations like premium membership etc were ...
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Atlassian has 5 values and they preach them regularly. They ask situation based questions and expect answers to have those values.
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Nov 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Arrays,strings,Linkedlist

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Implementation of trees ,stacks .
  • Ans. 

    Trees and stacks are fundamental data structures used in software engineering for organizing and storing data efficiently.

    • Trees are hierarchical data structures with nodes connected by edges. Examples include binary trees, AVL trees, and B-trees.

    • Stacks are linear data structures that follow the Last In First Out (LIFO) principle. Examples include function call stack and undo/redo stack.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Dbms(Acid properties), reverse words in a String.

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Sep 2020. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

12 Questions

  • Q1. What is Software Development Cycle??What are the phase in software development??
  • Ans. 

    Software Development Cycle is a process of designing, creating, testing, and deploying software.

    • The phases of Software Development Cycle are Planning, Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance.

    • Planning involves defining the project scope, goals, and requirements.

    • Analysis involves gathering and analyzing user requirements.

    • Design involves creating a detailed design of the software.

    • Implementat...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What is scrum methodology?
  • Ans. 

    Scrum is an agile methodology used for software development and project management.

    • It involves iterative and incremental development.

    • A team works on a project in sprints, typically 2-4 weeks long.

    • The team has daily stand-up meetings to discuss progress and plan for the day.

    • The product owner prioritizes the backlog of work.

    • At the end of each sprint, a review and retrospective are held to evaluate progress and plan for t

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. What is waterfall model?? What are the phases in waterfall model??
  • Ans. 

    Waterfall model is a linear sequential approach to software development.

    • Phases: Requirements gathering, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment, Maintenance

    • Each phase must be completed before moving to the next

    • No going back to previous phases

    • Documentation is important

    • Less flexible than Agile model

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. What is agile model??
  • Ans. 

    Agile model is an iterative approach to software development that emphasizes flexibility and customer satisfaction.

    • Agile model involves continuous collaboration between cross-functional teams and customers

    • It prioritizes working software over comprehensive documentation

    • It allows for changes and adjustments to be made throughout the development process

    • Examples of agile methodologies include Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Pro

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. Java object oriented concepts such as inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism, abstraction??
  • Q6. Java concepts such as access modifiers, collections.
  • Q7. Simple programming questions such as sort an array in ascending, descending order, binary search problem, some questions on abstraction with programming
  • Q8. Questions from databases??
  • Q9. Questions from mysql such as joins, primary key , foreign key, normalization, union, intersect etc
  • Q10. Some queries from mysql such as find second older person from a table and some questions in which u to use the knowledge of joins, primary key, foreign key to get the answer.
  • Q11. Questions from having , group by , order by causes.
  • Q12. In managerial round questions were asked such as where u see yourself after 5 years, why NCR , Why should we hire u ? Some questions on the projects that I have done. Some situation based questions were a...

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident, try to explain everything with an example, they will ask u to code everything on an editor so it is important that u write a code which can run properly. In managerial try to be honest and clear with your answer as they may ask follow up questions.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Red Hat Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Red Hat Software Engineer Intern interview?
Red Hat interview process usually has 4 rounds. The most common rounds in the Red Hat interview process are Technical, Coding Test and Resume Shortlist.
How to prepare for Red Hat Software Engineer Intern interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Red Hat. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Red Hat expect are Application Development, Computer science, Consulting, Internship and Linux.
What are the top questions asked in Red Hat Software Engineer Intern interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Red Hat Software Engineer Intern interview -

  1. Write a Program to print all Prime Numbers up to the number provided as input. ...read more
  2. It is Management Round interviewed by one of the managers in India. He ask abou...read more
  3. It was 1-2 interaction with the interviewers. It was 2 interviewers. But I inte...read more

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