Nomura Holdings visited our Campus in 2023.
Aptitude Round: Three Sections of questions:
- Verbal
- Quantitative
- Technical
Technical Round 1: After entering the meeting interviewer greeted me and started my interview with a simple question Tell me about yourself
- He went through my resume and told me to explain all the projects in the resume.
- He asked me about one of the projects in detail, ER diagram flow of my project. (Covering all entity, and relationships)
- Which sorting algorithms do I know What is the meaning of Time Complexity, what is the complexity of Algorithms that I know?
- He asked me to write a code for merge sort and Program to count the occurrence of a given character in a string – GeeksforGeeks
- Questions related to my extracurricular activities in detail.
- Then He Displayed a Database of Employee tables which consist of two tables.
- He asked me to write queries about:
- a] Joins
- b] group by
- c] aggregate functions
- What is normalization and its types?
- What is the OSI model? Use of presentation layer.
- lastly, He asked me about my educational background.
- we were running out of time, but he had many questions for me.
Questions I asked him:
- How a typical day at work looks in Nomura?
- What are your expectations from us as interns??
Technical Round 2:
- Introduce yourself.
- What are collections frameworks? Which of the collections do you know? Explain each one of them.
- A list of strings is given, you need to remove the duplicate strings from it, how will you do it?
- He had a sheet of various programs. He asked me to explain the concepts used, the logic, the flow of the program, and the output of each program along with some follow-up questions. Programs were based on OOP concepts, DSA, Java Collections, lambda functions, and patterns.
- Project discussion
- Are you a team player or an individual player?-I answered team player. Follow up, questions-Why team player? How do you handle differences between team members?
- I mentioned my experience of working for the operations team. Follow-up questions-So what work did you do? What did you learn from your experience there?
- If I am ready to work in any position available for interns
Questions I asked him:
- Internal Mobility in the tech stack
HR Round:
- Introduce yourself.
- How was your experience at the Microsoft Engage program?
- Are you comfortable with relocation? would your parents support you?
- Do you have any plans for Higher education?
- Are you preparing for any competitive exams?
Result: Selected as an intern at Nomura Holdings