SimCorp India Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

The first round was a coding test, which was outsourced to an external vendor. I was asked 2 basic DSA questions, and there was discussions around the time and space complexity, and scope of optimizing the solutions. Post that there were a few questions around Spring Boot features and basic system design. The interviewer was professional throughout the interview, and the interview process felt more like a discussion, as compared to the standard interview process.

There was another round of coding - this time conducted by the organization itself. It consisted of a medium level DSA question on stacks. I wrote the code on my personal IDE and executed it there itself. The interviewer discussed about the possible edge cases and how I would deal with them. Post solving the question I was asked about my previous projects.

• Q1. Discuss in detail about a scenario where a challenging production issue was handled.
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• Q2. What are your responsibilities as a senior / team lead in the current organization?
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• Q3. How did you handle conflicts with junior engineers and reporting managers?
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This was the final round where the discussion was largely around system design and HLD. It started off with questions are system design patterns and concepts. Then I was asked to design a booking design, with discussions around concurrency control and transaction management.