Shine Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Round: Test
Experience: Questions can be found here:

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Tips: Try to solve all 3.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 3

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: First discuss the solution and then paper-code it.
Tips: Try to code without mistakes.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: First, I was asked to discuss my project based on networking and then I was given a question on network programming
Tips: Pay attention on discussion

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Provide the optimised solution and code it without any mistakes.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Why linkedin?
What changes will you make in 6 months?
Internship project: Discussion and lot of common questions on that.
Basic Questions of C++ and Java

Skills: Data Structure, Core courses understanding, Algorithms
College Name: IIT GUWHATI

Round: Test
Experience: Simple aptitude test where they filtered out 2/3 of the applicants (12-15 selected out of 30)
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 40

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: General questions about you, your projects etc.
The linked list question, you can write in any language you like.
OOP concepts like how it is implemented in your favourite language.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Your thoughts on designing a database for a company that aggregates jobs from any available source.
The schema for the database and your reason for it.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Standard HR questions

College Name: Shiv Nadar University, Dadri

Round: Test
Experience: Two coding questions were given in the 1st round
1)find nodes at kth distance from root node
2)arrange a given array in min-max sequence
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 2

College Name: Thapar University, Patiala

Round: CODING ROUND
Experience: In the coding round there were 3 questions to be solved in about 3 hrs.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Expect the usual crazy questions like "Why LinkedIn?" and if you are already placed, be ready to give a proper justification for "Why LinkedIn and not XYZ?" so on. Be cool, you need not be accurate. Be well prepared with your resume and expect questions from them.
Tips: For the interview, just be confident and have a good resume ready with you.

Round: Other Interview
Experience: Coding Interview:
Simple coding questions. Make sure you first explain the logic to them and then you may be asked to write the code for it on the board using any language of your choice. Syntax is not a big deal, but don't make any logical errors. They are very friendly and may suggest certain solutions of their own. Make sure you can grasp them quickly. Find faults in your own code before they find it. Always try to give the best optimal solution. In case you are unable to do so then suggest possible improvements.

Round: Other Interview
Experience: Design Interview:
Some people may find this round a bit uneasy. But this round tests how good you are at designing solutions to problems. Most of the candidates were asked to build an online gaming system. And then they keep adding extra constraints and ideas and see if you can integrate them to your design. Database knowledge may be tested. They may also ask questions pertaining to you projects listed in your resume.

General Tips: An updated LinkedIn account with decent connections. ;)
Skill Tips: Be very strong with your coding ability. Whenever you code, do follow some standard procedures and make the code look simple and structured. Whenever you solve a coding question make sure you answer it completely for all the test cases. Partial results will only indicate that there is something wrong with the logic. Try to solve a complete question rather than multiple questions with partial results.
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL

General Tips: It might help in general to try to become a better developer at all times. One way to get good at it is to really enjoy what you do!Do random projects, use linux, Read Hacker News (-----/)  daily and wear hippie computer t-shirts (:-P) - Interviewers really LOVE talking about these, especially HR rounds (my HR interviewer was also a programmer).
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL