Arcesium Interview Experience for Software Engineer Internship
The process consisted of a mass shortlisting with CGPA criteria of +8.5, followed by a coding test consisting of 2 coding questions, logical and aptitude MCQs, DS, OOPS in Java and OS. The MCQs were marked +5, -3.
Question 1: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/make-array-elements-equal-minimum-cost/
Question 2: typical subarray question using maps, analogous question – https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/count-sub-arrays-sum-divisible-k/ Practice link
15 students were shortlisted after this round.
3 technical rounds were conducted and an HR round.
Technical Round 1:
Normalizations in DBMS – 1NF,2NF,3NF,4NF,5NF – examples with definitions
Difference between joins and nested queries in practical world
Queries in SQL – one simple and one nested query
Subset Sum – 0/1 knapsack problem – https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/subset-sum-problem-dp-25/ Practice link
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/adding-one-to-number-represented-as-array-of-digits/ Practice link
Technincal Round 2 :
- Introduce yourself
- Queue using 2 stacks – they asked every possible approach and detailed dry run – https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/queue-using-stacks/ Practice link
- Compile time vs Run time polymorphism with examples
- Design banking system using OOPS,system design question, discussed loopholes for half an hour
- Interfaces, Inheritance in OOPS
- Virtual functions
- Pure Virtual functions
- Virtual Base Class
Technical Round 3:
4 students were shortlisted for HR round
HR Round:
HR asked how was my day, made me comfortable.
- Introduce yourself
- Name of CEO
- Every non tech thing mentioned in my resume were seriously questioned, eg – top 2 skills learnt from this, name of novels you have read and lessons learnt
- Explain one of your academic project
- why you?
- your top 2 qualities?
- any questions for HR? definitely ask one
Only one student was selected.
Be confident, do explain your approach, keep communicating.
Know each and every word of your resume.
Last Updated :
12 Oct, 2021
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