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Updated 24 Jun 2022

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Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. User management, Workflows

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Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Off-campus interviews in Bangalore

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Only a few students will get shortlisted who do all the questions correctly.

Round: Other Interview
Experience: First 4 rounds on day 1 and this are just to shortlist for more rounds on some other day.
Tips: They will focus on almost all the concepts of computer science.You need to practice a lot and start it right now. Should be easy if you have prepared well enough. Use your holidays to start preparing for placements.

General Tips: Sooner you start, better your placement will be as lack of practice & last day study works only for exams but never for interviews. You'll get enough time to prepare for interviews once you get shortlisted. Focus on it even if you are placed already.
Skill Tips: They will focus on almost all the concepts of computer science.
Skills: C , Aptitude
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL

I appeared for an interview in Dec 2016.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: On-site interview (5 hours).

4 back-to-back 45-minute coding interviews, followed by a design interview, with a lunch break with a Googler in the middle.

The first coding interview was a set of (surprisingly) trivial (no algorithms needed) incremental coding questions.

The two next coding interviews were problems straight from the "Cracking the coding interview" book. Even though I divulged that I'd solved pretty much exactly the same problem before, they didn't give me an alternative problem and I quickly coded up a general and optimal solution for the problems. Follow-up in-depth questions were minimal and not hard.

The last coding question was a pure algorithm question related to search trees/tries. No coding required, spent the whole time reasoning about the most effective algorithm. This was a bit of a brain twister.

The design question was related to high-level system design (not OO design) for storage and search in geographic data. Focus was effective search as well as scalability both in traffic and data volumes.

Tips: Read "Cracking the coding interview" or other similar literature. Solve all the problems and you should be good to go. If you solve a bunch of problems at HackerRank (or similar) as well, you'll have the added bonus of training on how to generalize the algorithms.

I applied via Campus Placement

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Questions on linked list, basic logic and an adhoc math problem. Questions were very doable, but time maybe the only constraint
Tips: Manage time, get used to fluently coding in C Java or C++. You wont have access to Internet, man pages during contest so practice coding g without them.
Duration: 3 minutes
Total Questions: 75

Skills:
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jan 2016. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. Finding a loop in a directed graph, find the last element in a binary tree
  • Ans. 

    To find a loop in a directed graph, use Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm. To find the last element in a binary tree, traverse the tree and return the rightmost leaf node.

    • For finding a loop in a directed graph, use Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm which uses two pointers moving at different speeds.

    • To find the last element in a binary tree, traverse the tree recursively or iteratively and return the rightmost leaf node.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. On circular queue and finding the last number which is highest and contains same number. Of digits a the given numbber
  • Ans. 

    The question is about finding the last number in a circular queue that has the highest number of digits.

    • Implement a circular queue data structure

    • Iterate through the circular queue to find the last number with the highest number of digits

    • Compare the number of digits of each number in the circular queue

    • Keep track of the last number with the highest number of digits

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Tell me your passions and what. Is the one thing I want to know about you

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Coding round based on logic was given
Tips: Practice coding
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 3

College Name: IIT Madras

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. Binary tree question. Check if left child is less than right child. Recursive and iterative implementation
  • Ans. 

    Check if left child is less than right child in a binary tree

    • Traverse the tree recursively and compare left and right child values

    • Use a stack to traverse the tree iteratively and compare left and right child values

    • Return true if all left children are less than right children, else false

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  • Q2. Check if a string is a substring in another string. Discussed speed (not time complexity). not neccessarily always correct but fast
  • Ans. 

    Use built-in string method to check substring presence for faster execution.

    • Use 'indexOf' method to check if substring is present in the main string.

    • If the method returns -1, the substring is not present.

    • If the method returns a non-negative integer, the substring is present.

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  • Q3. Maze question. write code on paper in 5 mins. automatically check if function is correct (not testcases)

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Practice writing code on paper

College Name: IIT Madras

I applied via Campus Placement

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: A bit challenging but interesting.
Tips: 1) Solve as many problems as possible on the website "InterviewBit".
Duration: 75 minutes
Total Questions: 3

General Tips: Don't
Skill Tips: Need to have the ability to code on paper. This needs practice

Skills:
Duration: 2 months
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: An exciting company to work at.

I applied via Campus Placement

Interview Questionnaire 

6 Questions

  • Q1. Testing whether every left child's value is less than the right child's value in a binary tree
  • Ans. 

    To test if every left child's value is less than the right child's value in a binary tree.

    • Traverse the binary tree using any traversal algorithm (e.g., in-order, pre-order, post-order)

    • Compare the value of each left child with its right child

    • If any left child's value is greater than or equal to its right child's value, return false

    • If all left child's values are less than their right child's values, return true

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  • Q2. Cloning a linked list-like structure
  • Ans. 

    Cloning a linked list-like structure

    • Create a new node for each node in the original linked list

    • Set the value of the new node to the value of the corresponding node in the original linked list

    • Set the next pointer of the new node to the new node corresponding to the next node in the original linked list

    • Repeat the above steps until all nodes in the original linked list are cloned

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  • Q3. Finding the nth character in a stream of bytes
  • Ans. 

    To find the nth character in a stream of bytes, we need to read the stream byte by byte until we reach the nth position.

    • Start reading the stream byte by byte until you reach the nth position

    • Return the byte at the nth position

    • If the stream ends before reaching the nth position, return null or throw an exception

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  • Q4. Rearranging a string so no consecutive characters are the same
  • Ans. 

    Rearrange a string to avoid consecutive same characters.

    • Iterate through the string and keep track of the previous character.

    • If the current character is the same as the previous, swap it with the next different character.

    • Repeat until no consecutive same characters are left.

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  • Q5. Finding the next highest palindrome
  • Ans. 

    The task is to find the next highest palindrome number given a number.

    • Convert the given number to a string

    • Check if the number is already a palindrome

    • If not, increment the number by 1 and check if it is a palindrome

    • Repeat the previous step until a palindrome is found

  • Answered by AI
  • Q6. To canonicalize a directory path
  • Ans. 

    Canonicalizing a directory path involves simplifying and standardizing the path to remove any redundant or unnecessary elements.

    • Remove any consecutive slashes and replace them with a single slash

    • Remove any trailing slashes

    • Resolve any relative paths (e.g., '..' and '.')

    • Handle special cases like the root directory ('/')

    • Normalize the path by removing any unnecessary elements

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: The test started an hour late, which could have been avoided with some better planning. The test experience was pretty good for me since I am used to using HackerRank's online platform for competitive coding.
Tips: Maybe a little sample session before the actual test would help.
Duration: 75 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I enjoyed the interview experience; the panel was friendly and encouraging.

General Tips: Nice interview, questions were well thought out.
Skills: Algorithms And Data Structures
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: What interests me about Microsoft is the nature and the scale of the work they're doing. Every day they impact billions of people worldwide, and I would love to be a part of this organization.

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Campus Placement

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Algorithmic Coding, Testing, Databases & other CS Concepts

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Decent knowledge of coding was needed.Speed was of essence.
Tips: Practice coding and be quick.
Duration: 75 minutes
Total Questions: 3

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I had 3 technical interviews.The interviewers were very friendly.It involved writing paper on code which required me to be very precise and error free.
Tips: Practice coding.Practice writing code on paper and thinking out loud.

General Tips: Prepare well and be confident.
Skills: Unit Testing, Implementation Of Code Using OOPS, Database, Algorithms And Data Structures
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: Microsoft.The company speaks

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016. There were 6 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. Coding Questions and Thinking Process Analysis.
  • Q2. Analysis about app performance
  • Ans. 

    App performance analysis involves identifying and resolving bottlenecks to improve user experience.

    • Collect and analyze performance metrics such as response time, CPU usage, memory usage, and network latency.

    • Identify and prioritize bottlenecks based on impact on user experience and frequency of occurrence.

    • Implement optimizations such as caching, code refactoring, and database tuning.

    • Continuously monitor and test perform...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Discussion about the project mentioned in resume.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Two questions were given and we are supposed to write code for the same.
Tips: Whatever idea is there, just discuss with interviewer.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 2

Round: Problem Statement
Experience: You have to solve the question for next round.
Tips: Practice coding well.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: A coding question was given, but much difficult one, they were looking for approach.
Tips: Share your thought Process Clearly.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: A full depth project round was there. They asked my role and responsibility.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: An application was given to you and you have to make it better the way you can.

Skills: Technical Questions, Technical Analysis, Ability To Cope Up With Stress
College Name: IIT Madras

Skills evaluated in this interview

Salesforce Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Salesforce System Administrator interview?
Salesforce interview process usually has 1 rounds. The most common rounds in the Salesforce interview process are Technical.
How to prepare for Salesforce System Administrator 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 Salesforce. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Salesforce expect are Automation Testing, Linux Administration, Linux System Administration, Operations and Perl.

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