D E Shaw Interview Experience | Set 14 (On-Campus)

• I^st round consisted of 3 sections–>
  • Aptitude(30 mins)—> WAS A TOUGH NUT TO CRACK GIVEN THE TIME CONSTRAINTS.
  • Technical Aptitude(30 mins)
  • One coding question(20 mins).

  12 were shortlisted for the next round.

• 1^st round( F2F Technical):
  • Tell me something about yourself.
  • A lengthy discussion on my summer project(and some questionnaire on that)
  • What is virtual memory and real memory in Windows OS?
  • Proc file-system in Linux.
  • Why do we use & in scanf and not in printf?
  • Some queries in SQL like Find top n rankers in the class of students.
  • What is normalization? why required? Normal forms with examples?
  • Deletion, insertion and detect a loop in a linked list?
  • Function overloading concepts?
  • TCP/IP stack with the functionality of each layer.
• 2^nd round(F2F HR):
  • Tell me something about yourself.
  • Was asked to write a paragraph on a given topic.
  • Where do you want to see yourself after 5 years?
  • Why DE Shaw?
  • What is your vision?
  • Some commonplace puzzles.

  After this round 3 were shortlisted for the final round.
• Final round(F2F technical):
  • Tell me something about yourself?
  • A coding problem similar to sum tree.
  • Implement Set class in C++.
  • What are different protocols you are aware of?
  • What are DNS,DHCP,etc.?
  • Is DNS a protocol or a service?

  Finally they selected 2 out of 3 and I was the one not selected.

• Tips:
  Only Hard work and Practice helps.Please be thorough with the OS,DBMS,N/W.
  Luck plays its role too on interview day 🙂
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