GE Digital Interview Experience for Software Engineering Specialist (On-Campus)

This was part of a campus hiring drive by GE Digital for Software Engineering Specialist roles.

The hiring had 1 online coding test and 3 rounds of interviews. Let us discuss each one of them in detail.

Coding Test

So, the applications started on November 14th, 2022 via our college placement cell. The applications went through a resume screening and a few selected students got the link to the coding test.

The coding test happened on November 22, 2022. It was a HackerEarth coding test with a time of 1 hour.

We were given 3 questions. Following is the description of each of them

• Problem 1: This was a leetcode easy story type of question. We just had to understand the problem and write out some basic calculation logic to get it done.
• Problem 2: This was a leet code easy medium string problem. If you have done a good amount of leetcode questions then you can surely crack it.
• Problem 3: This was a leetcode medium DP question. It was a little tricky. I was able to solve it to some extent where 70% of test cases were passing but some test cases failed. I realized after the test that I was missing a corner case there.

So, with that, we got done with the coding test.

I was shortlisted for the interviews with 6 more students.

We had face to face interviews on campus on 30th Novemeber 2022. All the three rounds described below happened on the same day back to back.

First round was obviously technical and here is how it went.

Technical Round

There were two technical interviewers. It started with introduction and my likes in tech.

Then came a resume grill wherein they asked about my skills mentioned in the resume, where all did I use it, how much expertise do I have in those skills and all.

Then they asked me to explain my projects and internships and the work done there. There was some cross questioning on the work done during my internship at Intel.

Then they started asking technical questions.

They started with OOPs concepts, asked about function overloading, polymorphism etc and how does it work. As I mentioned that C++ was my strongest language, they also asked about vtable, the pointers in it and how does polymorphism work particularly in C++.

They also asked if I can give examples of polymorphism in C which I couldn’t at that time. Then one of the interviewers explained me and gave an example.

Then they asked about linkedlist in C++ and how would I implement it, asked to write some pseudo code on paper as well. They also briefly touched upon trees, specifically binary search trees.

Then they gave me two bitwise operator problems and asked to write pseudo code for it.

• First one was, how would you find if a number is a power of 2 or not. (They asked for all the approaches I could think of and finally the most optimised approach which was a bitwise method)
• Second one, given an array of numbers where all the numbers repeat twice except one number. Find that one unique number. (Again they asked for all the approaches I could think of with different time complexities, and finally the most optimised approach which is a bitwise method).

They also touched upon OS concepts like semaphores, locks etc and a deadlock as well ofcourse.

The interviewers closed this round with a brief discussion on the CS subjects I like where I would want to build my career.

With that, the round ended. I think I did well there.

Managerial Round

This round started with resume grill again. They again asked about some projects and internship related questions. This time it was more of managerial questions like how big teams did you work in, how much responsibility did you take in the projects etc.

Then the interviewer discussed about my achievements section where I wrote about a few hackathons and coding competition. He asked a few questions about one of the hackathons like what exactly did we build, what problem did it solve, what was my contribution there etc.

He also asked me about my 1 year internship which I was doing at the time of interview. He asked questions on why would I chose GE digital over the internship company, what would I do if I get a PPO there etc.

Then he asked a few behavioural questions, one which I remember was, if you are in a meeting and one of your senior is explaining something where he makes a big mistake. Would you correct him then and there or will you approach him later after the meeting and discuss about it?

That ended the managerial round. It was comparatively shorter round.

Then came the final HR round.

HR round

The HR round started with my on going internship again. Interviewer asked me again why would I chose GE Digital instead of the internship company if I got a PPO there.

After giving some explanation there, he asked me about myself, my interests and all. He also asked about the biggest challenges I faced till now and asked to describe one.

I also had a few typical behavioural questions which I don’t remember exactly.

Overall I was able to answer almost all the questions and I think I gave my best possible effort there.

Then started the wait for the results.

Finally on 20th December 2022, I received the results for GE Digital from placement office and I was selected with 3 others. My happiness had no limits. That day went into full celebrations.

I joined GE Digital in July 2023 and I am getting to learn a lot and do a lot of things here. Would like to thank my placement cell and GE digital for giving me this opportunity.