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Updated 14 Mar 2024

S&P Global Senior Software Engineer and Lead Interview Experiences

1 interview found

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Asked core fundamentals of java programming
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. All are scenario and integration based questions
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Expectation and why you choose s&p

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Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Technical Interview
Tips: * Easy technical questions
* Hiring procedure is more of technical assessment + personality assessment

Skills:
College Name: IIT Madras

Interview Questionnaire 

8 Questions

  • Q1. Find a number which occurs odd number of times and all number occurs even number of times
  • Ans. 

    Find an odd occurring number among even occurring numbers.

    • Use XOR operation to cancel out even occurring numbers and get the odd occurring number.

    • Iterate through the array and XOR each element with the result variable.

    • The final result will be the odd occurring number.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Some discussion about my minor project
  • Q3. Spiral order of binary tree and mattrix, print it
  • Ans. 

    Print the spiral order of a binary tree and matrix.

    • For binary tree, use level order traversal and alternate direction for each level.

    • For matrix, use four pointers to traverse in spiral order.

    • Example for binary tree: 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 6 -> 7 -> 8 -> 9

    • Example for matrix: 1 2 3 4 -> 8 7 6 5 -> 9 10 11 12 -> 16 15 14 13

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. Some question about os,dbms
  • Q5. Find pair which have a given sum in a given array
  • Ans. 

    Finding pairs in an array with a given sum.

    • Iterate through the array and for each element, check if the difference between the given sum and the element exists in the array.

    • Use a hash table to store the elements of the array and their indices for faster lookup.

    • If there are multiple pairs with the same sum, return any one of them.

    • If no pair is found, return null or an empty array.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q6. Find total number of k element which have a given avg in a given array in minimum time complexity
  • Ans. 

    Find total number of k element with given avg in an array in minimum time complexity.

    • Use sliding window technique to traverse the array in O(n) time complexity.

    • Maintain a sum variable to keep track of the sum of elements in the window.

    • If the sum of elements in the window is equal to k times the given avg, increment the count.

    • Move the window by subtracting the first element and adding the next element in the array.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q7. Print all elements which in not boundary element in a given binary tree
  • Ans. 

    Printing non-boundary elements of a binary tree

    • Traverse the tree in any order (preorder, inorder, postorder)

    • Check if the current node is not a boundary node (not the first or last node in its level)

    • If it is not a boundary node, print its value

    • Recursively traverse its left and right subtrees

  • Answered by AI
  • Q8. Then some question about process synchronisation,error vs exception,and then 2-3 hr question

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: practice codes on paper
Tips:

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: very good
Tips: please try to explain each and every question in detail

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: my hr round is not taken by them,and some of face 3rd round ,which is HR
Tips: please prepare all types of problem from geeksforgeeks

Skill Tips: please try to understand every problem from geeksforgeeks
Skills: ds
College Name: NIT Bhopal
Motivation: best work culture,and a lots of learning opportunity in this company,and in every 6 month there is a appraisal

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Jul 2020. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. Questions on java8
  • Q2. Questions on multithreading
  • Q3. Questions on exception handling

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - First round was a coding round where interviewer asked questions randomly and were asked to optimise our code. Next round was a technical round where everyone needs to be thorough with their technical skills

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Apr 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Aptitude test will a hackerrank test where it might have technical MCQ and/or coding test.

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Interviewer will test your logic building capability with puzzel/coding and technical questions and experience discussion.
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Its a normal discussion with HR about CTC and all.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - In TR interviewer are really good. They will help you and give hints. They mostly check if you have problem solving approch.

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Feb 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. They asked python memory management, string manipulations, regex, and about my current project

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Keep strong hold on python basics and data structure

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. How to invoke the xml file using LibXML?
  • Ans. 

    To invoke an XML file using LibXML, use the xmlReadFile() function.

    • Include the libxml/parser.h header file.

    • Use the xmlReadFile() function to read the XML file and create a xmlDocPtr object.

    • Use the xmlDocGetRootElement() function to get the root element of the XML document.

    • Use the xmlNodeGetContent() function to get the content of a node.

    • Use the xmlFreeDoc() function to free the memory allocated for the xmlDocPtr object...

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Core Java and aws
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Jan 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

It was a very simple coding test and the interviewer was focused on understanding the tradeoffs and time complexity analysis rather than the solution itself. And also asked a lot of questions of the hashmap internals, ArrayList implementation which was off track to what the interview was for.

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
-
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Sep 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. General data structure question based

S&P Global Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in S&P Global Senior Software Engineer and Lead interview?
S&P Global interview process usually has 3 rounds. The most common rounds in the S&P Global interview process are Technical and HR.
How to prepare for S&P Global Senior Software Engineer and Lead 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 S&P Global. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at S&P Global expect are Java, SQL, J2Ee, JMS and Microservices.
What are the top questions asked in S&P Global Senior Software Engineer and Lead interview?

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