Arcesium Interview Experience for Internship 2023

Course: B.Tech

• Role: Software Engineering Intern
• Eligibility: CSE – 7 CPI and above
• ECE, EE – 8 CPI and above
• Location: Hyderabad

Online Assessment Test

32 questions in 80 minutes

30 MCQs

• 15 MCQs from OOPs, C++, Tree, Graph, OS, DBMS
• 15 MCQs from aptitude topics like Time and Work, Probability, Ratio, and divisibility.

2 coding problems

• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/finding-sum-of-digits-of-a-number-until-sum-becomes-single-digit/
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/find-maximum-path-sum-in-a-binary-tree/

MCQs were easy to medium.

I was able to solve both coding problems and MCQs as well.

The next day 13 students were shortlisted from 159 students including me for interview rounds.

Round 1 (Technical Interview)

The interview was offline.

Difference between how multiple inheritance is achieved in C++ and Java.

Group Anagrams https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/given-a-sequence-of-words-print-all-anagrams-together-set-2/

I started with brute force. Then I came up with a good approach but was not able to provide implementation of the same to satisfy the interviewer.

I had solved this problem earlier but did not get the time to revise topics before the interview.

Search a 2D matrix https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/problems/search-in-a-matrix-1587115621/1

I explained 3 approaches from brute to optimised but misinterpreted the time complexity in the binary search approach.

I did not get the call for round 2.

Rejected.