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Xero Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 21 Mar 2024

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Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Write a rest API which return employee data based on ID.
  • Ans. 

    Create a REST API to retrieve employee data by ID

    • Use a GET request to /employees/{id} endpoint

    • Query the database for employee data based on the provided ID

    • Return the employee data in JSON format

  • Answered by AI
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Jun 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Rotate array leetcode question
  • Q2. Longest palindormic substring
  • Ans. 

    A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters that reads the same forward and backward.

    • Use dynamic programming to solve this problem efficiently.

    • Iterate through the string and expand around each character to find the longest palindrome.

    • Consider both odd and even length palindromes.

    • Example: Input 'babad', Output 'aba' or 'bab'.

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Print all the subsequences of a string
  • Ans. 

    Generate all possible subsequences of a given string.

    • Use recursion to generate all possible combinations of characters in the string.

    • At each step, include or exclude the current character to form subsequences.

    • Store each subsequence in an array of strings.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Print longest substring with k unique values
  • Ans. 

    Find and print the longest substring with k unique characters in an array of strings.

    • Iterate through the array of strings and keep track of the longest substring with k unique characters.

    • Use a sliding window approach to efficiently find the longest substring.

    • Keep a hashmap to store the frequency of characters in the current window.

    • Update the window boundaries based on the number of unique characters.

    • Return the longest

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Behaviour quesions

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

(1 Question)

  • Q1. General DSA question leetcode style
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Discussion on previous project
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

It was a machine coding round

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Similar to the other question
  • Q2. Give an array and an element sort the array with difference of that number to array elements
  • Ans. 

    Sort an array of strings by the difference of a given element to each array element.

    • Iterate through the array and calculate the absolute difference between the given element and each array element.

    • Sort the array based on the calculated differences.

    • Return the sorted array.

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

I applied via campus placement at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (NIT), Bhopal and was interviewed in Jul 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

3 questions easy-medium level leetcode problem I solved 2 completely and 3rd question partially (9/15 test cases passed) to move on to 2nd round

Round 2 - Coding Test 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Implement an app similar to splitwise
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Apr 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Stack based question Medium Difficulty DSA.
  • Q2. Theory questions related Java, Spring, OOPs
Round 2 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Medium-hard DSA question.
  • Q2. Project related questions
  • Q3. Design Patterns
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Company fit questions
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Nov 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

1. PEAK ELEMENT QUESTION.
2. COIN DENOMINATION

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

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. React hooks implemetation
  • Q2. Node event loop

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - just brush up your basics.
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. What is deep copy ?
  • Ans. 

    Deep copy is a copy of an object that duplicates all of its attributes, including nested objects, rather than just copying references.

    • Deep copy creates a new object with its own unique memory space.

    • Changes made to the original object do not affect the deep copy.

    • Deep copy is often used when you need to modify an object without affecting the original.

    • Example: Using JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(object)) in JavaScript to crea

  • Answered by AI

Xero Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Xero Software Engineer interview?
Xero interview process usually has 2 rounds. The most common rounds in the Xero interview process are Assignment and Coding Test.

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