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Info Edge visited our campus and conducted a recruitment drive for the role of Software Engineer for final year B Tech students belonging to CSE and ECE branches.
Due to the pandemic, our whole recruitment drive was conducted virtually. It consists of 5 rounds in total.
Round 1(Screening Round): This is an MCQ round and consists of 2 sections each section consisting of about 20 questions.
- Section1 has core computer science technical questions from topics DSA, DAA, CN, DBMS, OS, and OOP.
- Section2 has aptitude questions.
- The time for this round is around 40 min.
- Based on their threshold limit, the top scorers will get shortlisted for further rounds.
Round 2(Interview – Technical Round): This round covered DSA, SQL concepts.
- My interview started with an introduction. After giving a glimpse of mine, the interviewer asked me to live code and implement some questions. There won’t be any restriction on programming languages.
- To code the regex module and demonstrate string matching (without using inbuilt pattern matching modules). The code should handle all wild cards such as *, ?, ^, etc. (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/wildcard-pattern-matching/amp/)
- Given an array, count the number of pairs such that they add up to a given target. (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/count-pairs-with-given-sum/amp/)
- Another SQL query was asked to implement
- Later on, egg dropping puzzle and 3-Ants on triangle puzzles were asked to explain the logic.
- And some interview questions on OS, DS, DBMS, and OOPs.
- This round went for 1 hr.
Round 3(Interview – Technical Round): This round proceeded with more discussion on academic and individual projects. The key technologies used and challenges faced were covered.
- More questions on skills mentioned in the resume were asked.
- Later asked to code sub-array with given sum problem, which also handles negative integers, and implementation of power function without using pre-built modules ( here one should handle all the corner cases such as power raised to 0 and negative numbers)
- And next, given a use case and asked to think of the data structures that efficiently serve the purpose of use case and its functionalities.
- Use-case: Implementation of Elevator
- I have answered 2 priority queues – 1 for the upward journey and 1 for the downward journey.
- Because in the upward journey of the elevator, all the downward requests should be discarded and upward journeys should be served in a prioritized fashion ( the requests from bottom floors should be given high priority while serving upward journey) and vice-versa.
- Interview questions and definitions from OOP, Computer networks were covered.
- This round went for 40 min.
Round 4(Interview with Tech lead): This round was more like a technical discussion that tests the theoretical understanding of concepts.
Some of the questions are –
- What is the entire internal process that happens between entering a web URL in the browser and getting the web page loaded. Refer – what happens when we hit a url
- What is the maximum size of RAM that a 32-bit Operating system can run on? Ans – 4Gb RAM. 32 bit OS cannot run on higher RAMs such as 8GB. But in order to serve more requests, modern devices have RAM >4Gb. Hence, an a64-bit Operating system was introduced, which can run on RAM that is having memory till 2 TB. Read – https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/difference-32-bit-64-bit-operating-systems/amp/
- Whenever we logged into the Gmail web app through any browser and closed the tab and when we re-open, we can get automatically logged in with our previous credentials. How exactly is that happening? Refer – Caching and cookies, How exactly browsers maintain user’s login state.
This round ended with him asking any questions/doubts regarding the role or company.
Round 5(HR Round): This round is simple. It is more like a friendly discussion with HR.
- The behavioral questions were asked such as Tell me about yourself and your family.
- Why do you want to join Info Edge and whether are you willing to relocate to Noida post-pandemic?
- Are you able to manage with Hindi (as I am south Indian)?
A strong understanding of theoretical core concepts and problem-solving abilities will help you crack the interviews.