Wolters Kluwer Software Developer Interview Questions and Answers

Round: Resume Shortlist
Tips: If you think it is worth it, write it in the resume.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I discussed a political party in one such interview in another company. He was impressed rather inspired.
Tips: All they are looking for in this interview is that you have a basic aptitude

Round: HR Interview
Tips: Try to be as real as possible. They know people and have great deal of experience. You cannot fake it.

General Tips: Peace yoo
College Name: IIT BOMBAY

Round: Test
Experience: apti and logical reasoning ques  were not tough and with basic knowledge on C and SQL I could easily solve the questions
Tips: Just try to  maintain a good speed while solving

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: mostly they focus their questions based on the form that we had to fill. it had details about our extracurricular activities, main courses of interest, training and project work, software languages known, academics.
Tips: the form was to be filled with accuracy and only those points about which one is confident enough should be added

Round: HR Interview
Experience: it was just a normal interaction. they wanted to know the kind of person i am, my strengths and weakness. any impressive qualities unique of me. my favourite author. it lasted no longer than 10 minutes . and try to acquire as much background information as you about the company.
Tips: try to be honest with your answers. do not fake since they can easily catch you. do not give any such answers about which you are not confident or any view where you cannot defend yourself.

Skill Tips: I learned sql from w3school.com.
Skills: confidence, amicable nature, leadership qualities, participation in extracurricular activities, puzzle solving, Aptitude
College Name: NIT ROURKELA
Motivation: Its quite simple, I wanted to land with good job before i leave  nit.
Funny Moments: Since it was the first time i was facing an interview, so i asked my interviewer how were my answers.

Round: Test
Experience: We were to write a test which had 2 sections in which first section had multiple choice questions related to oops and programming concepts and in the second section we were given tables and we had to write sql queries as given in the question.
Tips: Strong oops concepts and DBMS Concepts are required
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 20

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Tips: Projects and research papers and CV must be revised thoroughly. As said earlier basics of JAVA and DBMS must be clear.

Skills: Java Programming, SQL, Project And Internship, Basic C/C++
College Name: IIITDM Jabalpur

Round: Test
Experience: It was a medium test contating all levels of questions.
Tips: One must have the concepts of Computer Science clear to solve it
Duration: 3 hours

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: They asked technical questions related to my resume.
They asked to code for Sudoko problem

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: They asked some data structures algorithm.
They also asked some puzzles and asked to code it.
They there were some HR questions like what will you do to fulfill your dreams ?

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: There was again a technical interview round.
They asked data structure questions and some mathematics questions

Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was the last and simplest interview round.
They asked us our AIEEE ranks and what are we expecting from the company.
Tips: Make sure to ask questions to the interviewer at the end of every round.

College Name: BIT Mesra

Round: Test
Experience: Fast paced aptitude and coding round with multiple choice questions covering basic data strcuture, OS, SQL
Duration: 1 hour

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Basic logical questions and puzzles

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Data structures and algorithms
Have to write pseudo code

Skills: Data Structures And Algorithms, Coding Skills, Quantitative Aptitude
College Name: IIT BHU

Round: Test
Experience: The sections were Quantitative, Logical, Verbal and Computer Science.The three sections contained very basic questions of general aptitude while the Computer Science section contained questions on Database Management, OS, SQL and Programming Aptitude.

Round: Test
Experience: The question was to program a logic to test the correctness of a solved sudoku. We were allowed to code in C++, Java, C or pseudo code.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Were asked simple questions and program them like reversing string without temporary variables, finding the earlier date when entered as string and finding the difference in number of days between them.
I was asked to explain him my internship project in great detail and above all one should be prepared to answer the question 'Why IT?' if from a non IT background. Then I was asked to program a logic for 'Search and replace" tool of MS Word.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Was asked about my background in detail and stressed again and again on 'Why IT?'. Then he asked me to prepare a summary on the merits and demerits of various Employee Data Management techniques for an organisation. For the end of the interview you should have a question which you would ask to the interviewer.

General Tips: Don't try to over emphasize the correctness of your logic if the interviewer finds a glitch. It irritates him. Be interactive in your HR round. In our case it was the VP of Oracle India who took the final round. So I asked him about his experience in the company. He was very happy to share it with me. But asses your interviewer before you put forth these queries cause your interviewer might not be as jolly as mine was.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal

Round: Test
Experience: Oracle consisted of an initial aptitude test followed by two rounds of technical interviews, one managerial interview and a final HR round. The company utilised the intermediary rounds as the elimination rounds.
In oracle, 3 M.Tech students and one B.Tech student(that's me) were chosen.

General Tips: Be extremely well prepared for any company. Research about the company's profile extensively before the company's interview. HR panel always looks for candidates who are well aware of the company in order to measure the candidate's interest. Data structures are absolutely necessary for any company. Improve coding skills through frequent participation in competitive programming arena such as codeForces, codeChef, HackerEarth etc. "Software development job profile was offered to me.
Unnecessary and irrelevant questions are to be avoided. We should raise questions only if we have some genuine questions. However any question related to job profile or location preference could be raised. "
"It was very grueling and tiring at first but the sweet taste of placement makes it all worth it.
Placements are a turning point in everybody's career."
Skill Tips: For oracle, a lot of research into company needs to be made. Operating systems and databases require more amount of preparation and priority in Oracle.
For data structures, online materials are excellent and in case of OOPS concepts, stronghold in either C++ or java programming language is necessary.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal