Deutsche Bank Interview Experience 2020

Round 1 (Coding Round – A large chunk of students appeared as this was the 2nd major recruiter)

• Held on HackerEarth
• 3 questions with 50, 50, and 20 marks respectively.
• All the 3 questions were tough.
• I did one question of 50 marks with all test cases passed and I qualified.
• Also, some of my friends got 50 marks but did not qualify. I think there were other parameters as well.

Round 2 ( Technical Interview – 11 students were selected )

• Tell me about you and your projects.
• Explain the project. ( Explained fluently my internship project )
• Questions on the project.
• Tell me what you know about OOPS?
• Explain polymorphism.
• What are the access specifiers?
• What will happen if we don’t specify anything before a class?
• Heap – I didn’t know about it so said I am not confident in Heap. She moved on to the next question.
• What is a linked list?
• Find the middle of the linked list ( Code in online editor)
• What is a stack?
• What is a queue?
• Code an algorithm using queue which can find the max and min in O(1) time and show output ( Code in editor).
• Code all the algorithms you know to reverse a string  (Code in editor).

Round 3 ( Technical Round – 6 students were selected )

• Project and explanation.
• CV based questions
• Why NLP?
• Other use cases of NLP.
• Which ML algorithms you know?
• Difference between Keras and TF.
• Time complexities.
• Different terms related to time complexities.
• O(n), W(n), w(n), theta(n) etc etc.
• Suppose someone from your team does not want to work. You being the leader of the project what are the steps you will be taking. ( I explained in points that first I’ll talk to him and try to understand the reason. Then I’ll motivate him to join. If necessary I’ll arrange a team meeting. Then even after these steps is he doesn’t listen then I would hand it over to the upper management).
• How will you approach any design problems? Explain in steps. ( I took the example of my project and explained to him from start to end what I would do. I explained from planning to the full testing and deployment phase).
• Swap two no without using extra variable.

Round 4 ( Professional Fitment – 5 students were selected )

• Project and explanations.
• Have you ever been to Bangalore or Pune?
• Best professor and worst professor in college and why? ( Named the best but didn’t name any for the worst)
• How were the previous rounds?
• Why analytics?
• What do you want to work in?
• You have good marks in 10, 12 and college why not further studies?
• Implement LCS and show the output( Time given 10 min ).
• Explain your algorithm.

Round 5 ( HR round – 4 students selected )

• Project and explanation
• Was there any question that you thought was beyond your limit in the previous round?
• Can you solve that question now?
• Explain the question.
• How was the previous interviews?
• How will you know that your calculator is not working? Explain stepwise.
• Any experience in working as a team?

Finally, 4 of us got the offers in which I was one of them.