Sophos Technologies Linux System Administrator Interview Questions and Answers

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College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Experience: coding test in hacker rank. can code in any language except in C and C++.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 2

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: In technical round the questions are on OS, basics of C(mainly in linked lists) and maths puzzle

They mostly see how you are approaching towards a problem.
It is first time that I heard the camel banana problem. So I struggled for some time and came up with a solution. He said he liked the approach but it can be optimized.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: It started with explain about yourselves. and then he asked to explain about one project with technical details. Later he asked me to explain binary search for a guy who don't know much of technical knowledge. He continued with why we only do 2 partitions why can we make it up to 3. Later he asked me what I liked most in my mobile phone. I said chatting apps. So he asked me that if I was hired as a developer to make a chatting app how will I do it.
Tips: way of thinking and way of approaching towards a problem.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: This round was focused mainly on whether I like to work in Bangalore or not. How I first heard about Symantec. how I will suit for the company. what are my future plans.

Skills: C, OS, Math Puzzles
College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Experience: Very first, the interviewers and their employees gave presentation about their products and company. They were very cool and very positive to motivate candidates. After that they started Round 1 that is test based on aptitude and logical problem, also containing c programmin and operating system problems.
Tips: If you have studied basics very well, you will clear the round 1 very easily. Study C programming and Linux Operating System concepts.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 60

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I am not specifying any question above because 2nd round i.e Technical Round 1 was continued to abt 1 and hour hours taken by 1 interviewer. If you give all answers confindently, obviously they all must be correct, you will be qualified to next techincal round.
Tips: Same as mentioned in round 1.
Study C programming & Operating System.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This was Technical Round 2. It was taken by 3 interviewers asking questions randomly from random subject. Also, one took rapid fire round for 20-25 questions. If you qualified this round, then you can assume that you are selected. This round was also continued more than 1 hour.
Tips: Study Networking concepts

Round: HR Interview
Experience: If you are called for HR interview, then you can assume that you already selected as employee for company. This is round is just for formality to tell you CTC and location and joining, etc.
One thing I would like to mention that in each round they will ask you to tell about yourself. So prepare that too. In HR round, they asked me some tricky puzzles to solve since I mentioned that I am very good in maths so.

College Name: Datta Meghe College of Engineering

Round: Test
Experience: Test had all kinds of questions apti+c-apti+cse concepts+coding.
It covered all the things related to computer science.There were 3 coding questions among 39
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 39

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Resume Related

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Resume related and tested my knowledge on networking

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