CEDCOSS Technologies Interview Experience (On-Campus) 2022-23

It was an On-Campus placement drive for Associate Software Developer By CEDCOSS Technologies in Lucknow. There were a total of 4 rounds. All rounds were elimination rounds.  From my campus, a total of 400 students were attending the drive.

Round 1: Aptitude test : This round was pretty easy, basic high school maths questions were asked and some output based questions. There were a total of 15 question which were to be solved within 15 minutes.

• 5 MCQ questions on Aptitude 
• 5 MCQ questions on Programming
• 5 subjective questions for testing grammatical skills

Out of 400 students, 160 were selected for round 2.

Round 2: HR cum Technical round: This was done after the Aptitude Test on the same day. Questions asked were:

Technical Questions:

• Preferred Language (I told C++)
• What are virtual functions?
• Can Virtual function be overridden? Give reason.
• What are Circular References?
• Do you know anything about STL?

HR questions:

• Tell me about yourself
• She asked me about my Family background
• Whether am I ready to work in Metro Cities 

Suggestion: I was able to answer all of the questions except one which was about Circular references, since I had no ideas about it I told her that I am not aware of this topic. 

Tips: Be confident and just tell her if you don’t know the answer don’t waste time when you don’t know the answer. 

It took around 2-3 days for the results, 40 out of 160 candidates were selected for further rounds.

Round 3: Technical interview: This interview was held online on Google Meet. Also I had to wait for around 2 hours for my turn and it finished in just 3-4 minutes. the interviewer seemed to be in a bit of hurry. Questions asked were:

• What is your Preferred Language?
• What is a Final class?
• How many types of destructor are there in C++?
• How will you define a destructor? Is it called automatically by the compiler or the user have to explicitly call it.
• How will you find the Longest Common Subsequence in a String.

The results for this round were declared after 2 days. 11 out of 40 students were selected for Machine round which was at their office in Gomti Nagar, Lucknow.

Round 4: Machine round: This round was at their office and consisted of 2 parts. First was coding and then the Final Face to Face interview with the Senior Managers. 

Coding Round: There were a total of three questions which were to be solved within 90 minutes.

• Find the count of duplicate elements from a List.
• Print fibonacci series from a given number N till M considering it starts as 0,1,1,2,3….. .
• Overlapping Rectangle – An array of string will be given, which will have coordinates of 2 rectangles. We need to find the region which is overlapping and check whether this region can occupy the entire rectangle completely or not.

I was able to solve the first 2 but not the last one so I was not selected for the Final interview. 2 out 11 candidates were selected for the Final round.

Face To Face Interview: It took around 30 minutes for each candidate. Some basic DSA problems were asked and had to explain with pen-paper.

• Reverse a Linked List
• Some questions based on Resume.
• Question related to OS like deadlock, mutex etc
• Final year Project

Note: The whole process took about a week. My advice would be to stay calm during the interview and keep preparing yourselves

Hope this will help you guys and all the best