Deutsche Bank Interview Experience for Graduate Analyst (On-Campus)2023

Courses Allowed: B.Tech. – All circuital branch
Eligibility: 7.0 CPI and above
Job Location: Pune/Bangalore

Online Round (90 min): There were 3 questions. Two medium questions and One hard question. I was able to solve 2 questions and got shortlisted for the Interview Rounds. A total of 26 students got shortlisted.

Offline Interviews:

Round 1: Technical Round 1 (40-45 min):

• Project Discussion (All 3 projects in depth for around 30 min).
• Stack and queue.
• Implement a queue using stack.
• LRU cache.
• Topological Sort in a Graph.
• Selection Sort
• Run time polymorphism and virtual function.
• Few behavior questions.
• Problems faced during lockdown period.
• How did you help others during the lockdown?
• Any questions for the interviewer?
• I asked 2 questions.

20 students got shortlisted for the next round.

Round 2: Technical Round 2 (35-40 min):

• Current semester subjects.
• Last semester’s subjects.
• Project Discussion. (5-10 min)
• All OOPS concepts with examples.
• C++ questions.
• Pointers.
• Exceptional Handling.
• Hashmap implementation.
• Binary Search Algorithm.
• Recursion. (Explained using Factorial program)
• Dequeue.
• Heap and how it is implemented in C++.
• Find the 3 largest elements in an Array.
• Questions for the interviewer. I asked 1 question about the company culture and how the dynamics work between different employees within a team.

14 students got shortlisted for the next round.

Round 3: Professional Fitness Round. (30-40 min):

• This was a bit tough round as this was an in-person interview.
• The interviewer started with tell me about yourself?
• Then he asked me about JSON and some questions about NoSQL databases. (Based on Project)
• He asked me Huffman Algorithm (Project Based) so I explained to him the entire algorithm using a pen and paper.
• Then he gave me a Puzzle. It was a tricky one as I saw it for the first time. But managed to crack it.
• Then he gave me a situation-based question. Related to the team collaboration principles of the company. Which I answer wrong.
• We have many candidates better than you for this job. Why should we hire you?
• Questions for the interviewer? I again asked the same question about company culture and team dynamics. And while answering he addressed that I answered the situation-based question wrong.

Round 4: HR Round (20-30 min): This was the most chill round.

• He started with Tell me about yourself.
• Asked about my hobbies and what was the last movie I watched (I went blank for a while as it was quite unexpected but answered it nevertheless).
• He asked me to explain my projects in a layman’s term.
• We discussed Pokemon and which one is my favorite (Project Based).
• He asked me about my Instagram Clone project why there was a need for it as Instagram already exists and what new features can we add on Instagram.
• He asked me how I keep myself motivated and what I do in my spare time.
• Why DBOI?
• What exactly is Investment Banking (related to my previous answer)?

In total 9 students got finally selected.

Verdict: SELECTED
Tips:

• STAY CALM AND POSITIVE.
• BE SURE WHAT YOU ADD TO YOUR RESUME AS THEY CAN ASK THINGS IN DEPTH