Airbus Interview Experience for Associate System Engineer (Off-Campus) 2023

Airbus conducted “Aerothon5.0” on HackerEarth for 0-10 years of experienced candidates, offering various roles. They were hiring for the Bangalore location and the process has 3 rounds.

Round 1 (Online Coding – 3hr):

This round is based on HackerEarth, consisting of 3 medium to medium-hard-level DSA questions, focusing on dynamic programming on graphs, a 2-pointer approach, and a string-based question. It had the highest weightage among all others.

1. Additionally, 3 challenging SQL queries centered around join operations are also there. This had less weightage than the DSA questions.
2. Around 15-20 MCQ questions covering essential topics like CS, CN, DBMS, and OS .
3. It was an eliminator round based on the final score.

Round 2(Hackathon):

This was a hackathon where selected candidates formed teams of 3-5 members.

Each team received one problem statement one day before the hackathon to prepare their solutions.

On the actual hackathon day, judges evaluated the teams’ solutions.

Round 3 (Technical Interview – 45 mins) :

• The technical interview was on Google Meet and the panel consisting 2 people.
• Introduce yourself briefly.
• Rate yourself in DSA on a scale of 1-10.
• Then he asked to open any code editor and asked 2 DSA questions to code.
• One was based on a sliding window (given the sum smallest subarray) and the other was a variation of the longest increasing subsequence.
• Then discussed time and space complexities.
• After that, he asked some basic questions about SQL, Normalizations, ACID properties, and Indexing.
• A short discussion about my personal projects and their features.
• any questions.

Round 4 (Tech+ HR Interview – 25 mins) :

• Brief Introduction about myself.
• Some OOP-related questions like abstract classes and Deep copy.
• Javascript version you worked on and its features.(ES6 features).
• There was a long discussion on callbacks and promises.
• How to call any API in Javascript.
• Then she about my family background.
• What you know about Airbus.
• Which tech stack you like to work on.
• asked about relocation.

The result was declared after 15 days.

Verdict: Selected