ION Group visited our campus for recruitment for a Developer Role. There was a total of five rounds of online tests and interviews.
Round 1: It was an online test conducted on the HackerEarth platform consisting of 15 MCQs and 2 Programming Questions.
- https://www.codechef.com/problems/TWONMS
- Goto Prime
After the first round, 161 students were shortlisted for the interview process.
Round 2: It was a puzzle and coding-based interview, including core computer subjects.
The interviewer started with a project discussion, and he asked me about my favorite subjects. Afterward, he started asking me about types of data structures. Some questions are:
- What is a dynamic array, and how is it different from a static array?
- Code to allocate memory on the heap?
- What do you understand by STL? He asked some advanced ques about STL.
- Asked ques about Tries and Maps
- Some time complexities.
- Hashing concepts.
- Different codes detect and remove loops in the linked list.
- Implementation of Vector class and all the functionalities.
- Different approaches to finding the third largest number in a large dataset.
- Some advanced OOPs concepts.
- Some basic OS questions.
Only 55 students were shortlisted for the second round.
Round 3: It was a case study round, where the interviewer gave me a case study of Big Bazar and asked me to help the company to increase its profit during Covid times.
Round 4: It was completely a resume-based round. We discussed my projects in detail and my College Club activities, and some HR questions. (Not an HR Round). Also, the interviewer asked me about advanced C++ concepts like lambda function and some indirect ques about Smart Pointers.
Round 5: It was a group meeting with the country head of the company where we were asked to introduce ourselves. It was a personal know-how round. It was also an eliminatory round. We have given some exciting activities also.
At last, 10 students got an offer from the company, and I was one of them.