Wunderman Thompson Commerce Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Q1. What is MVC, and how magento uses MVC
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MVC stands for Model-View-Controller. Magento uses MVC architecture to separate business logic, presentation, and user input.
• Model represents the data and business logic

• View represents the presentation layer

• Controller handles user input and updates the model and view accordingly

• Magento uses the layout XML files to define the view layer

• Magento's controllers are responsible for handling requests and responses

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Q2. Ways to create a custom attribute in magento Product, Customer and Sales.
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Custom attributes can be created in Magento Product, Customer and Sales.
• For Product: Use Magento's setup script to create a custom attribute.

• For Customer: Use Magento's customer setup script to create a custom attribute.

• For Sales: Use Magento's sales setup script to create a custom attribute.

• Custom attributes can also be created programmatically using Magento's API.

• Attributes can be added to attribute sets and used in
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Q3. What is the difference in product, customer and sales entity. Also do these all have EAV ?
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Q4. What is the Mview file usage and what are the indexing techniques.
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Mview files are used for indexing in Magento. Indexing techniques include full, partial, and delta indexing.
• Mview files are used to store data for indexing purposes.

• Full indexing updates all data in the index, while partial indexing updates only specific data.

• Delta indexing updates only the data that has changed since the last indexing.

• Indexing can be done manually or automatically based on a schedule or trigger.
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Q1. Magento2 config ways, Also how we can set config so at time of deployment in multiple environments it auto update magento.
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Magento2 config can be set via XML files, database, or environment variables. Configuration can be automatically updated during deployment using tools like Ansible or Jenkins.
• Magento2 configuration can be set via XML files in the app/code/[Vendor]/[Module]/etc directory

• Configuration can also be set in the database using the core_config_data table

• Environment variables can be used to set configuration values

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Q2. What caching techniques magento uses, and how we can control them.
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Magento uses various caching techniques to improve performance. We can control them through configuration settings.
• Magento uses full page caching, block caching, and session caching.

• Full page caching stores the entire page in cache to reduce server load.

• Block caching stores individual blocks of content in cache to reduce database queries.

• Session caching stores session data in cache to reduce database queries.

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Q3. What is Redis cache, and how we can modify / clear a customer based cache.
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Redis cache is an in-memory data structure store that can be used as a database, cache, and message broker.
• Redis cache is used to speed up the performance of web applications by storing frequently accessed data in memory.

• To modify or clear a customer based cache, we can use Redis commands like DEL, KEYS, and FLUSHDB.

• For example, to clear a customer's cache, we can use the command 'DEL customer:123'.
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Q4. What is the use of composer.json and composer.lock
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composer.json defines dependencies and composer.lock ensures their versions are consistent.
• composer.json lists the dependencies required by the project

• composer.lock ensures that the versions of the dependencies remain consistent across different environments

• composer.lock is generated automatically when dependencies are installed or updated

• composer.json can be manually edited to add or remove dependencies

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Q5. Steps to make packaging an magento module as a global package to use in composer require.
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To make a Magento module a global package for Composer, follow these steps:
• Create a composer.json file in the root directory of the module

• Specify the name, version, and type of the package in the composer.json file

• Add the module's files to the 'src' directory

• Create a 'vendor' directory in the module's root directory

• Run 'composer install' to generate the vendor/autoload.php file

• Publish the package to a repository like P...read more
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Round duration - 50 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

there were two coding question in first round.

Q1. 
Doctor Ninja's House Problem Statement
In a network of 'N' cities with 'M' paths connecting them, Doctor Ninja aims to purchase a house in a city 'X' such that it is possible to reach every other city fro...read more
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The task is to find a city 'X' from which all other cities can be reached in a given graph.
• Find the mother vertices in the graph.

• If there are multiple mother vertices, return the minimum value.

• If there are no mother vertices, return -1.
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Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

1 coding question of scrambled string.

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Scramble String Problem Statement
You are given an integer 'N' and two strings S and R, each having the size N. Determine if you can scramble string S to obtain string R using specified operations.
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The question asks to determine if string 'R' can be obtained by scrambling string 'S' using certain operations.
• The length of both strings 'S' and 'R' should be the same.

• The operations can be applied recursively on the substrings of 'S'.

• If the length of 'S' is 1, the scrambling process stops.

• The strings only contain lowercase letters.
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Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

oops and some sql queries

Round duration - 20 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

HR round

Q1. MIM, CM, PM, IM, ITIL, Service Life Cycle, Project Management related questions
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Q1. What are your salary expectations?
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Q2. Why should we hire you?
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Q3. Why are you looking for a change?
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Q4. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
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Q5. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
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Q6. Values that you bring on table for Wunderman
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Technical Interview round with questions around Java.

Q1. What is the difference between @RestController and @Controller in Spring?
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Q2. 
Swap Two Numbers Without Using a Third Variable
Your task is to swap two given numbers without utilizing an additional variable and print the swapped values.
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The first line contains an integer 't...read more
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Q3. What is the Singleton Design Pattern?
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Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

HR round with typical behavioral problems.