Maersk Interview Experience for SDE (On-Campus)

So, M/S Maersk came on-campus for the role of 12 months Internship and Full-time SDE offer which is performance based on the work done during the Internship.

Location: Bangalore

The placement process contained 3 rounds:

Round 1: This constituted an online session comprising inquiries related to Aptitude, Scala, UI/UX, RDBMS, Non-RDBMS, and a solitary coding query. The queries leaned towards the fundamental side, particularly the coding question, which revolved around a straightforward array problem that can be deemed at an easy to medium level.

After a month I advanced to round 2.

Round 2:: A technical round with questions about my resume, projects, and 2 coding questions on Linked List Revese and Palindrome. They asked about current projects working on, variables in Javascript, Datatypes in Javascript, languages in DBMS, use of SQL in any project and how did you implement it ?, what pip in Python, slicing, and OSI layers.

The interviewer was quite chilled and just want to test the technical zest of the candidate.

The results came the next day and I progressed to round 3 – the techno-managerial round.

Round 3:This round was easy but tricky. The interviewer was a senior PM and asked in depth about the projects and mostly he wants to assess the psyche of the student. He asked about my strength and weakness from the perspective of my friends, hobbies, and worst-case-scenario thinking. For the technical part, he was quite impressed by my performance in the previous round itself but he was adamant that I write some code in Java or Python because they are the developer’s language rather than C++ which according to him gives in-depth knowledge but they don’t use in their stack which is understandable. He gave a code for character frequency count and told me to convert the C++ code which was done using unordered_map to Java code which I told I am unable to do because I don’t how to use Hashmap in Java because I do my CP or DSA in C++. He was not happy with that response and told me to learn both. Well, Interview ended on a light note by me asking about his daily life in the office which he explained very politely.

Learned a lot from the experience and definitely advised students to revise both the OOPS language once.