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Updated 2 Sep 2022

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posted on 2 Sep 2022

I applied via campus placement at Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Ranchi and was interviewed before Sep 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

2 coding question, 1 section of business aptitude and 1 section english.

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Design a chess game.
  • Ans. 

    A classic chess game with standard rules and pieces.

    • Create a board with 8x8 squares

    • Place 16 pieces on each side: 1 king, 1 queen, 2 rooks, 2 knights, 2 bishops, and 8 pawns

    • Define the movement rules for each piece

    • Implement special moves like castling and en passant

    • Check for checkmate and stalemate conditions

    • Allow for player vs player or player vs computer gameplay

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. N queens problem. Minimum steps by knight.
  • Ans. 

    The N Queens problem is to place N chess queens on an NxN board so that no two queens threaten each other. Minimum steps by knight is a variation of this problem.

    • The N Queens problem is a classic problem in computer science and can be solved using backtracking.

    • The minimum steps by knight variation involves placing N knights on an NxN board so that no two knights threaten each other.

    • This problem can also be solved using...

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - Telephonic Call 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Hr questions were asked. And location preference.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident. Tell truth. Know your resume well.

Skills evaluated in this interview

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

2 medium dsa que - one is of binary search, one is from graph

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Define oops principle
  • Ans. 

    OOPs principles are the fundamental concepts of object-oriented programming that help in designing and implementing software solutions.

    • Encapsulation: Bundling data and methods that operate on the data into a single unit (class).

    • Inheritance: Allowing a class to inherit properties and behavior from another class.

    • Polymorphism: The ability of different classes to be treated as instances of a common superclass.

    • Abstraction: ...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Define os concepts
  • Ans. 

    OS concepts refer to fundamental principles and components of operating systems.

    • Process management - handling processes, scheduling, and resource allocation

    • Memory management - managing memory allocation, virtual memory, and paging

    • File system - organizing and accessing files on storage devices

    • Device management - controlling and communicating with hardware devices

    • Security and protection - ensuring system and data securit...

  • Answered by AI

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Sde1 Interview Questions & Answers

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posted on 1 Sep 2022

Round 1 - Coding Test 

4 coding question 1 easy ,2 medium and 1 hard

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Technical interview, asked about my project, then DSA question , count number of palindromic substring

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Practice DSA, build your resume and profile with good projects and understand them deeply , practice good level DSA questions
Round 1 - Coding Test 

DSA
OOPS
C++
DBMS
OS
CN
BASIC MATHS
PROBABILITY
CALCULUS

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. DSA PROBABITLITY OOPS PROGRAMMING BASICS C++

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well from geeks for geeks and solve lots of DSA questions. also be thorough with whatever you write on your resume, every subject everything revise it beforehand
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Medium leetcode question on array list

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Core java and collections, exceptions and threading
  • Q2. Core java collections
  • Q3. Multi threading
  • Q4. Executor framework
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Threading related questions
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Nov 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is list comprehension
  • Ans. 

    List comprehension is a concise way to create lists in Python by applying an expression to each item in an iterable.

    • List comprehension is written inside square brackets []

    • It consists of an expression followed by a for clause, then zero or more if clauses

    • Example: squares = [x**2 for x in range(10)]

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Explain spark architecture
  • Ans. 

    Apache Spark is a distributed computing system that provides an interface for programming entire clusters with implicit data parallelism and fault tolerance.

    • Apache Spark follows a master-slave architecture with a driver program that communicates with a cluster manager to distribute work across worker nodes.

    • It uses Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs) as the basic data structure, which are immutable distributed collect...

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Write code for palindtomr

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Aug 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

1 coding question based on DP for 25 minutes and 30 MCQs on Java , OOPS and code snippet questions also some basic questions based on trees like number of leaf nodes in a complete binary tree with n nodes.

Round 2 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Write code for finding palindrome of a string
  • Ans. 

    Code to find palindrome of a string

    • Iterate through the string from both ends and compare characters

    • Use two pointers, one starting from the beginning and one from the end

    • If characters at both pointers match, continue checking until they meet in the middle

    • If all characters match, the string is a palindrome

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What is dynamic memory allocation in Java
  • Ans. 

    Dynamic memory allocation in Java refers to the process of allocating memory for objects at runtime.

    • Dynamic memory allocation allows for objects to be created and destroyed during program execution.

    • The 'new' keyword is used to dynamically allocate memory for objects in Java.

    • Dynamic memory allocation helps in managing memory efficiently by allocating memory only when needed.

    • Example: int[] arr = new int[5]; dynamically a

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. You are designing an e commerce website which database will you choose and what will you use for authentication given that you can't use JWT or even third party like Google authentication
  • Ans. 

    I would choose a relational database like MySQL and implement a custom authentication system using session management.

    • Choose a relational database like MySQL for storing user data, product information, and orders.

    • Implement a custom authentication system using session management to securely authenticate users without JWT or third-party services.

    • Use encryption techniques to store and validate user passwords securely.

    • Util...

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Mar 2024. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Find the character with the maximum frequency
  • Ans. 

    Iterate through each character in the array of strings and keep track of the frequency of each character. Return the character with the maximum frequency.

    • Create a dictionary to store the frequency of each character

    • Iterate through each string in the array and then through each character in the string

    • Update the frequency count of each character in the dictionary

    • Return the character with the maximum frequency

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Valid parenthesis
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Have you used Junit? What is the difference between SQl and NoSQl Databases? have you worked with Kafka? Kafka based questions. explain dockerization/ containerization. which java8 feature did you work wit...
  • Ans. 

    Yes, I have experience with Junit, SQL and NoSQL databases, Kafka, Dockerization, Java 8 features, stream() operations, and shell scripting in Unix.

    • I have used Junit for unit testing in Java projects.

    • SQL databases are relational databases that use structured query language for data manipulation, while NoSQL databases are non-relational databases that provide flexible schema design and horizontal scalability.

    • I have work...

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is the most complex sql query you have written till date. Why did you use nested query to achieve your goal? explain the query. which join did you use in the query. have you implemented hashset? how w...
  • Ans. 

    The most complex SQL query involved nested queries for data manipulation. Used inner join. Implemented hashset and avoided trees due to their drawbacks.

    • Nested SQL query used for complex data manipulation

    • Inner join used for combining data from multiple tables

    • Implemented hashset for efficient data storage and retrieval

    • Avoided trees due to their drawbacks such as unbalanced structure and slower traversal times

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Find and replace words in a file using shell scripting. add an index in the beginning of each line in a file using shell scripting. what is multithreading? difference between single threaded and multithrea...
  • Ans. 

    Shell scripting for find and replace, adding index to lines, multithreading, hashmap vs hashtable, stack vs queue

    • Use sed command for find and replace in shell scripting

    • Use awk command to add an index at the beginning of each line in a file

    • Multithreading is the ability of a CPU to execute multiple threads concurrently

    • Single threaded means only one thread is executed at a time, while multithreaded allows multiple threads...

  • Answered by AI
Round 4 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Behavioral questions- tell me about yourself. do you have any questions for us?

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Fidelity Investments Software Engineer interview:
  • DSA
  • SQL
  • Shell Scripting
  • Kafka
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Depends on the team your interviewing with but I personally felt their interviews are un-structured. The questions were not based on my experience.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. OOPS Concepts,Java Coding,Testing
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Selenium, APIs, Automation
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
-

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Oct 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Write code to return the maximum profit by buying and selling stocks using available money

Wells Fargo Interview FAQs

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Wells Fargo interview process usually has 3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Wells Fargo interview process are Coding Test, Technical and Telephonic Call.
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