MAQ Software Interview Experience for ASE (2022)

Exam Pattern: Total 13 sections. There is no time limit for the section we can shuffle between sections

• Coding Round(last section) :which contains  4 questions 
• one problem is a simple math-based problem
• two medium questions which are based on dynamic programming, Binary search,
• one hard dynamic programming question (tricky)

The rest of the sections are  MultiChoice based on different topics 

• DSA  easy, medium, hard (3 sections)
• Operating systems, easy, medium, hard 
• Object-oriented programming is easy and medium 
• Aptitude rounds

Interview Pattern

Round 1:(Technical Each round is 45 mins)

• Brief introduction about me 
• Asked about my projects 
• Then gave one programming question finding the kth largest number in an array 
  • I explained to him three approaches and then he added to me that can we use variables  (sorting,priority_queue, bubble sort for k time, then using variables)
• After saying all approaches he just asked me to place time complexities order increasingly (o(n)<o(n^2)..)
• After programming questions, he tested my statistics knowledge because I mentioned that I am machine learning enthusiast so he asked  what is 
  • Normalization, standardization, variance, and standard deviation
  • Then he asked what is the difference between decision trees and random forest 
  • At last, asked what are Acid properties 

Round 2:(Technical)

• Brief Introduction
• Asked a few questions in my projects that why I have selected these topics to do projects 
• He had my previous round approaches list so he asked me to implement the code and run it online compiler
• Then he asked few Dbms keywords meaning and asked me to explain them in our daily life with some examples 
  • Delete vs drop vs truncate link
• Asked about my previous internship completely and what was a problem there,what we did , what was team size and so many things
• Then last he asked What are typical steps for data preprocessing 

Round 3 (Hr):

• Brief Introduction
• Started with a cricket puzzle which I was not able to answer. https://www.quora.com/Two-batsmen-are-each-on-94-runs-Seven-runs-are-needed-to-win-in-the-last-3-balls-and-both-batsmen-make-100-not-out-How-How-can-it-be-done-from-just-the-last-2-balls
• Describe yourself in three words
• He asked me to show how I manage my time (since I mentioned time management)  I said I will use the todo app for maintaining deadlines so he said me to present the screen and show the todo app (so be honest with your answers)
• Why do we hire you? 
• Why maq?
• What is your biggest  failure  in your life how did you come out from it
• What is your jee rank? And why were you not able to get a single-digit rank
• Then asked me why I didn’t get single digit rank in jee
• Then asked how you will manage your health (mental health as well)
• Rate yourself for honesty on a scale of 10