Forcepoint Interview Experience for SDE (On-Campus) 2022

Eligibility:

• CPI above 8
• Min 85% in 12th / Diploma
• Min 90% in 10th
• Only CSE branch

Interview Process – Online test, 2 Technical rounds, and an HR round

Round 1 (Aptitude + Technical MCQs)

This was basically based on aptitude and technical MCQ questions. It was conducted on the Mettl platform and each section was timed.

All questions were of easy to medium level and can be solved very fastly if you have solves that kind of aptitude questions from any site on the internet example – https://www.indiabix.com/aptitude/questions-and-answers/

Out of around 60/70 candidates who gave the test, 23 were shortlisted for Technical round 1

Round 2 (Technical Round 1)

The interviewer was very calm and introduced himself and asked me to do the same. He asked me a lot of questions during this round covering all the topics including DSA, DBMS, OS, OOPS, and Puzzles.

1. He started by asking me about my favorite language and why I favorite.
2. Then he asked about diff between process and thread. What is a deadlock how can we prevent it?
3. Then he asked what actually happens when you run the main method in a program ( internally how is it called) . The followup question was what is static variable and why is main static as we use in public static void main in java programs and more questions on static.
4. Questions on SQL how to find the 2nd highest value (this a common question asked in a lot of interviews) .Difference between delete and truncate .
5. Pillars of OOps, What is encapsulation?
6. What is multithreading?
7. new vs malloc()
8. Where are static variable stored – heap memory?
9. Copy constructor
10. He then asked me 2 puzzles –

• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/puzzle-27-hourglasses-puzzle/
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/puzzle-22-maximum-chocolates/

The interviewer was very patient as I got disconnected 2 times and was panicked in between interviews still he was talking and calming me throughout. This round lasted for around an hour and 15 mins.

Out of 23 students, 5 students went for Technical Round 2

Round 3(Technical Round 2)

Again the interviewer was very friendly and started by introducing himself and asked my intro too. He asked for my resume and checked the projects. He asked why I made them i..e what motivated me and how is it unique from others. After a good talk on my resume, he asked me what are the pillars of oops. He asked me to explain polymorphism in detail with real-life examples.

He asked me what is difference between runtime and compile time polymorphism.

Then he went on to ask if I knew about SOLID principles. After this, he asked if I has any questions and answered my questions very nicely and elaborately. My question was about the tech stack forcepoint used and its culture.

This interview went for around 20-30 mins.

Out of 5, 3 students went for the final i.e. HR round and I was among one of them.

HR round was very short and nothing as such was asked, HR informed me thoroughly about forcepoint and its culture and asked me about traveling etc.