Interview Experience 39

#ApplicationDeveloper

Round 1 was conducted on the day before the company arrived in the campus and Round 2-5 were conducted from morning 8 am to 8pm (aprox.) a day later. So, it took 2 days for the completion of entire process of evaluation.

##Round-1 (Online Test)

This test comprised of questions broadly from four categories: Verbal, Mathematical Aptitude, Software Engineering (flowcharts etc.) and Computer Science Concepts (DS, DBMS, OS etc.). Candidates were selected based on their performance in this to be interviewed for either the post of Applications Development Engineer or for positions in OFSS.

##Round-2 (Face-to-face Technical Interview, lasted for 30 minutes)

The interviewer asked me to introduce myself.

Went through my CV and asked about my projects and internships in detail (Also asked about my final year project that I was doing).

What is the maximum number of lines of code that I have written till date?

Which DS are you comfortable with? Then he asked me to list down all the data structures I know, each supported by an example of its utility. Few basic questions on DS.

Program to find the second largest and second smallest element in an array. We need to write the code on sheet of paper and thereby give approaches to improve the complexity.

Asked a few Basic Java Concepts.

Basic OOP Concepts (Data abstraction, Inheritance etc.) and Software Engineering guidelines with relevant code snippets.

Some standard puzzles. For eg. 25-horses-3-fastest-5-races-puzzle and some more of similar sort.

##Round-3 (Face-to-face Technical Interview, lasted for 40 minutes)

Puzzle : River Crossing Puzzles.

Asked to tell me some problem that I enjoyed solving the most when I began coding and to write the code for it. He also asked me what was the problem I faced while solving that problem initially and how had I overcome the same.

Discussion on projects, again!

Puzzle: Three persons A, B and C are standing at the vertices of an equilateral triangle inscribed inside the circle. When the bell goes, all three start running on the track at the same speeds in directions we don’t know. What is the probability that none of them will collide?

Few more questions of easy to medium difficulty!

##Round-4 (Face-to-face Technical Interview, lasted for 20 minutes)

Asked about Normalizaion and the Normal Forms (with examples).

Asked to design a DBMS for an e-commerce system along with relevant ER diagrams and data structures. Code the same in any of your preferred language.

Asked a bit more about myself and my hobbies.

##Round-5 (Face-to-face HR Interview, lasted for 20 minutes)

The customary “Tell me about yourself” question

What do you like most about our company's website? And why do you want to join the same?

Discussion on projects and co-curriculars mentioned in the CV.

What is that one thing you would want to change about yourself? Why? Weaknesses and Strengths.

Would you want to pursue higher education? Why or why not?

Asked about my location preference along with reason for it. Then,asked me to wait outside for the results.

At last, You can ask them any questions if you have.