The Selection Process consists of the following steps:
1. Technical Assessments (virtual): There were some basic-level aptitude and technical questions.
2. HR Interview (virtual): HR asked me :
- Introduce yourself
- What does Cedcoss’s workaround
- How do you keep yourself updated with the current technologies
- Rate yourself for DSA from 1 to 10
- Short-term and long-term goals
- what have you done to achieve your goals
- What challenges have you faced as a team member
- Tell me about your family
- Where is your hometown
- Will you be comfortable relocate
- Will you agree to the bond
The round was not long in duration. I was done with it in 15 minutes.
3. Basic Technical Interview (virtual): Interviewer asked me multiple technical questions from different domains :
- DSA: What are BFS and DFS, linear-nonlinear data structures, where do we use the stack and bubble sort?
- HTML: Difference between tag and element, how can we add a link to an HTML page, how do we add comments, what do you mean by blank spaces in HTML?
- OOPS: features, polymorphism, overloading, overriding, static polymorphism, abstract class, access modifiers.
- OS: deadlock, how to recover deadlock, virtual memory.
- DBMS: Inner join and self join, my SQL query to insert 4 queries all together in a table.
- PYTHON: Decorators, type conversion, built-in data types, predict the output(related to string slicing).
- DEBUGGING: code snippets to predict the output and find out the errors.
- CODING: Implement a code to print the words of a string in reverse order.
The round was 30 – 40 minutes long.
4. Machine Round (in office): After 4-5 days of the third round, I was asked to come to the Gomti Nagar Office of Cedcoss, As soon as I reached, I was assigned login credentials and told to solve questions on the online platform provided by them.
- Remove elements from the array which are not a perfect square.
- Generate a prime subsequence such that it contains prime and nonprime numbers in alternate orders and for each no. which you will not be able to choose for this purpose, there is a penalty, try to use the least possible penalty.
The time allotted for this round was 1 hour.
5. Final Technical Interview (in office): In this interview, I was asked to write some code on Notepad followed by some technical questions related to DBMS and OOPS.
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CODING QUESTIONS :
- Insertion sort
- Anagram
- Shortest palindromic subsequence
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TECHNICAL QUESTIONS:
- Interface
- How abstract class is different from other class
- Sql query to find the third highest salary (without sorting)
- Bcnf
- Add two numbers without using any third variable
In the end, the interviewer asked me, where do you see yourself after 1 year.