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Updated 24 Oct 2023

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user image Anonymous

posted on 24 Oct 2023

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Oct 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Brief about yourself? How good you are python and Unix? and some puzzle
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Python code and puzzle: file regex list tuple and other concept

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Jul 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Coding Test 

C program python lunix

Round 3 - Coding Test 

C language basics linux

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Good with your technical skills
Improve communication skills

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I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in May 2022. There were 5 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. As infineon is Produc based company and Every Person Responsible for complete Chip Testing instead on 1 specific Block. so Interview Asked Basic Tests like continuity, DPS short , Vil/Vih , Voh/Vih , Lekag...
  • Ans. Above all the Topics prepare clearly
  • Answered Anonymously
  • Q2. Basics of Tester Hardwares and why you join in INFIN ? Why want to Change the company ? Why should we we hire ? Tell me about any challenges faced in previous organisation and Work status ? Any protocol...
  • Ans. These are Main topics you should good before going to attend the interview
  • Answered Anonymously
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Same as Previous Round but did by Manager in deep level on Basics and work
Round 4 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. General Discussion about Works did in previous organisation and Basics
Round 5 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. General Discussion and Salary Negotiation

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Infineon Technologies Senior Engineer interview:
  • Java, Basics of Engineering
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Instead of preparing before interview Continuously Learn where ever you work that make you get confidence

Learn more skills that make your Resume more weight

Must and Should Revise and Review all the topics attached in Resume

If any One Call for scheduling Interview, ask for time min 2 Java and Max 1 week to Revise and Get ready with Full knowledge and confidence for interview.
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Sep 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Three DSA questions one on likedlist one on BST and one on maps

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Cpp pointers explain smart pointers
  • Ans. 

    Smart pointers in C++ provide automatic memory management and help prevent memory leaks.

    • Smart pointers are objects that manage the memory of a pointer automatically.

    • They ensure that memory is deallocated when it is no longer needed.

    • Examples include unique_ptr, shared_ptr, and weak_ptr.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Cpp question based on OOPs concepts
Round 3 - Coding Test 

DSA questions on graph and lots of puzzles

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Ansys Software Private Limited Senior Engineer interview:
  • C++
  • DSA
  • OOPS
  • Puzzles
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Overall good experience, but the HR hasn't replied yet.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Jan 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Questions about memory segments and compiler optimisations
  • Q2. Question about controller architecture
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Question about memory allocation of variables from a code snippet

Interview Questionnaire 

9 Questions

  • Q1. Questions related to the work done at my previous company
  • Q2. Find if a given directed graph is cyclic or not
  • Ans. 

    To check if a directed graph is cyclic or not

    • Use Depth First Search (DFS) algorithm to traverse the graph

    • Maintain a visited set to keep track of visited nodes

    • Maintain a recursion stack to keep track of nodes in the current DFS traversal

    • If a node is visited and is already in the recursion stack, then the graph is cyclic

    • If DFS traversal completes without finding a cycle, then the graph is acyclic

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. You have a stream of bytes from which you can read one byte at a time. You only have enough space to store one byte. After processing those bytes, you have to return a random byte. Note: The probability of...
  • Ans. 

    Return a random byte from a stream of bytes with equal probability.

    • Create a variable to store the count of bytes read

    • Create a variable to store the current random byte

    • For each byte read, generate a random number between 0 and the count of bytes read

    • If the random number is 0, store the current byte as the random byte

    • Return the random byte

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. Find if a given Binary Tree is BST or not
  • Ans. 

    Check if a binary tree is a binary search tree or not.

    • Traverse the tree in-order and check if the values are in ascending order.

    • For each node, check if its value is greater than the maximum value of its left subtree and less than the minimum value of its right subtree.

    • Use recursion to check if all nodes in the tree satisfy the above condition.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. Devise an algorithm to determine the Nth-to-Last element in a singly linked list of unknown length. If N = 0, then your algorithm must return the last element. You should parse the list only once
  • Ans. 

    Algorithm to find Nth-to-Last element in a singly linked list of unknown length

    • Traverse the list and maintain two pointers, one at the beginning and one at Nth node from beginning

    • Move both pointers simultaneously until the second pointer reaches the end of the list

    • The first pointer will be pointing to the Nth-to-Last element

    • If N=0, return the last element

    • Parse the list only once

  • Answered by AI
  • Q6. Given an array of integers, print all possible permutations. Also explain your approach
  • Ans. 

    Print all possible permutations of an array of integers

    • Use recursion to swap elements and generate permutations

    • Start with the first element and swap it with each subsequent element

    • Repeat the process for the remaining elements

    • Stop when all elements have been swapped with the first element

    • Print each permutation as it is generated

  • Answered by AI
  • Q7. Design a Stack DS that also prints in O(1) the minimum element you pushed in the stack
  • Ans. 

    Design a stack that prints the minimum element pushed in O(1)

    • Use two stacks, one for storing elements and another for storing minimums

    • When pushing an element, compare it with the top of minimum stack and push the smaller one

    • When popping an element, pop from both stacks

    • To get the minimum element, just return the top of minimum stack

  • Answered by AI
  • Q8. Given a linked list with loop, how would you find the starting point of the loop ?
  • Ans. 

    To find the starting point of a loop in a linked list, use Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm.

    • Use two pointers, one moving at twice the speed of the other.

    • When they meet, move one pointer to the head of the list and keep the other at the meeting point.

    • Move both pointers one step at a time until they meet again, which is the starting point of the loop.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q9. Find a number a matrix mat[m][n] where all the rows and columns are sorted non-decreasingly. What will be the complexity of the solution
  • Ans. 

    To find a number in a matrix where all rows and columns are sorted non-decreasingly. Complexity of the solution.

    • Use binary search to find the number in each row and column

    • Start from the top-right corner or bottom-left corner to optimize search

    • Time complexity: O(m log n) or O(n log m) depending on the starting corner

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Skills: Algorithm, Data structure
College Name: Na

Skills evaluated in this interview

I appeared for an interview before Jun 2016.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Preference to CFD and Fluid Mechanic courses. Simulation profile(basic programming), asked pseudo code related to simple Fluid Mechanics problems. Subjective test based on HMT, Fluid Mechanic, MOS, CFD, mostly formula based for technical profile. Both tests were 45 minutes long, and applicants had an option of giving either one or both the tests.

Duration: 45 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Related to written test. Detail about project and intern as related to work in CFD, HMT. Stressed on the question of whether higher education or job and why? Stressing on practical knowledge however asked about favourite topic and asked indepth questions in it.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: 40-50 minutes, taken only of people already selected. Family background, educational background, current events .Location:- offshore location also possible in future based on performance. Higher Education:- Company sponsors masters and doctorates but only for projects linked to company profile .
Tips: Company looking for good technical people, not HR skills; however package is a little less. Choose this profile to apply for as not a lot of people were applying for it.

College Name: IIT Kanpur

Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

Intel user image Niranjhana Narayanan

posted on 4 Dec 2016

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

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Why UDP and not TCP in project
  • Ans. 

    UDP is preferred over TCP in this project due to its low latency and lightweight nature.

    • UDP is a connectionless protocol, which means it does not establish a direct connection between the sender and receiver.

    • UDP is faster than TCP as it does not have the overhead of establishing and maintaining a connection.

    • UDP is suitable for applications where real-time data transmission is crucial, such as video streaming or online ...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. How would you clear the 7th bit in a 32 bit register
  • Ans. 

    To clear the 7th bit in a 32-bit register, perform a bitwise AND operation with a mask that has all bits set to 1 except the 7th bit.

    • Create a mask with the 7th bit set to 0 and all other bits set to 1

    • Perform a bitwise AND operation between the register and the mask

    • Store the result back in the register

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Questions were based on C concepts, given piece of code, find error, output, etc then data structures, bit manipulation, a few aptitude questions were also there (around 5-7).
Tips: Practice aptitude, C, data structures (geeksforgeeks.org is a good source).
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 30

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: I was asked to explain project in detail, I had done projects on embedded, so was asked about that, details like what fields did you use in that structure, why this implementation and not some related other. Memory management, network communications, operating systems. Then questions on C concepts like memory allocation, function pointers, then data structures like linked lists, then bit manipulation in registers. Questions from electrical coursework. Then later, why higher studies, would you still go for higher studies if you had a good job at a company, why etc.
Tips: Be thorough with C (know your Kernighan & Ritchie) and be prepared to go into details about your projects.

Skills: C, Data Structures, Coursework Understanding, Project And Internship
College Name: IIT Madras

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. Asked me about my answer for a question in the logical test and asked me to find mistake
  • Q2. Some tree question
  • Q3. Some array question

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Just logical questions. Maybe create a DFA and NFA.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 20

Round: Coding
Experience: Given two questions. Each question is written like a story, but once you get the idea, it will be a simple question

College Name: Govt. Model Engineering College

I applied via Campus Placement

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. They asked me optimise the code I had written for the first question
  • Q2. Given a binary tree, find out the maximum sum path from root to leaf. This problem, but they said tree has only positive integers. -----/ . To store the path I had used global array. They asked me alternat...
  • Q3. Given a list of words. Given three operations find out the minimum steps to reach from source string to destination string. Basically, -----/ this is the problem with some modification. For this question I...
  • Ans. 

    The question is about finding the minimum steps to reach from a source string to a destination string using three operations.

    • BFS and DFS are graph traversal techniques that can be used to solve this problem.

    • BFS is typically used when finding the shortest path or exploring all possible paths in a graph.

    • DFS is useful when searching for a specific path or exploring deeply into a graph.

    • In this case, BFS can be used to find...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: • 1 question was on time complexity of searching an unsorted array.
• 2 questions were on recursion, ie, number of recursive calls.
• 1 question on analysing given function on string.
• 1 question was on probability(Two hotels, say A and B. Probability of moving from A to B is 2/3, staying at A is 1/3. Probability of moving from B to A and staying at B is 1/2. If they make decisions each hour, and if they were at A at 7:00 pm, what is the probability that they will be at B at 10:00 pm).
• If a set has elements {1,2,3,4 .... n}. Then what is the sum of elements of it's power set. (Ex: S = {1,2}. Then power set is {{},{1},{2},{1,2}}. The sum is 6.
• If a set has elements {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}. Then how many subsets of 3 elements has no consecutive elements.
• 1 question was on designing a DFA for a string starting with a and ending with c and has at least b in it.
• 1 question had machine instructions. We had to find out minimum number of cycles needed to execute the given set of instructions. (a) If the instructions are executed in the given order. (b) If the instructions are executed in random order.
• 1 puzzle on bridges.

Tips: In this round they not only see the answer. They also verify how you approached(So, give correct explanation to your answers).
Duration: 90 minutes
Total Questions: 10

Round: Coding Round
Experience: Two questions were there. 3 hours duration.

1. Long question, I don't remember fully. I'll just give input/output examples. It was basically on string decoding. If jon2snow3 is there the decoded string will be jonjonsnowjonjonsnowjonjonsnow. Given a string and an integer k we have print the kth character in the decoded string
input:
jon2snow3
8
output:
n

2. Given an array and an integer k return the number of contiguous sub arrays whose sum is divisible by k.
input format:
n k

input:
4 5
10 0 4 5

output:
4

explaination: {10},{0},{10,0},{5} are the sub arrays with sum divisible by 5.


Tips: You will have lots of time, so try to optimise the solution if you can. Remember here also they review each individual's code.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: They will help you a lot if you are stuck at some point in the question. You have to be smart enough to grasp the clue.
Tips: They only ask questions only on data structures and algorithms.

Skill Tips: You have to be strong in coding. Algorithm questions will be mostly on dynamic programming. Data structures questions are mostly on trees.
Skills: C Programming, Maths(esp Probability), Algorithms And Data Structures
Duration: 5
College Name: JSS Mahavidyapeetha Sri Jayachamarajendra College Of Engineering, Mysore

Skills evaluated in this interview

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Synopsys interview process usually has 3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Synopsys interview process are Resume Shortlist, Coding Test and Technical.

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