Principal Global Services Interview Experience for Trainee Analyst (On-Campus)

Last Updated : 02 Aug, 2023

Principal Global Services is a Global In-house Centre, dedicated to supporting Principal Financial Group to achieve our common purpose of empowering and enabling our customers across the globe by protecting and advancing their financial well-being through retirement, insurance, and asset management solutions. Over the last decade, they have assimilated the right mix of talent and competencies to build a center of excellence that delivers quality, innovation, and strategic value. They offer right over best opportunities for holistic growth because they believe that engagement is directly proportional to the right opportunities, fostered by cultural pillars of empowerment and enablement.

This Company comes as a Campus selection for our college for the 2022 batch.

Eligibility criteria

They had not mentioned any specific eligibility criteria but you should have decent grades in your 10^th, 12^th,, and engineering.
For most of companies, it is required to have at least 60% in 10^th and 12^th, 6.5 cgpa throughout engineering.

Total Rounds: 06

Round 01:

The first round was an aptitude round which consisted of around 18 fill-in-the-blank questions, it was taken on elitmus platform and it was an elimination round. The difficulty level for this round was easy to medium.

Round 02:

The second round was also an aptitude round which consisted of around 60 questions (20 quantitative, 20 logical, 20 verbal), it was taken on elitmus platform and it was an elimination round too. The difficulty level for this round was medium to hard. A few topics you need to concentrate on are differentiation, geometry, profit and loss, permutation/combination, comprehension, jumble letters, sitting arrangement, etc.

Round 03:

The third round was a technical interview of around 50-60 minutes. The interview started with my introduction and discussion on a few of the projects mentioned in my resume, later he asked me a few questions on Computer networks (E.g.: As sales increase during the festival season on a shopping website, what is the best possible way to handle this traffic), few questions were on Data structures (Graphs), latest technologies. Overall, the difficulty level was medium

Round 04:

This was a puzzle round with 5 logical MCQ questions and a descriptive question (“Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”). It was not an elimination round and the difficulty level was easy

Round 05:

The fifth round was a managerial round (technical + HR), where he asked me about my college elective subjects and I had to explain it to him with a problem statement, then he also asked me about the detailed design of how to create a chess game and what technologies would be used, then finally there were questions on my previous internship. This round lasted for around 45 minutes and the difficulty level was medium

Round 06:

The final round was an HR round for around 15 minutes, he just asked me for my personal details and the technologies I’m interested to work on.

Suggestions:

Keep your main focus on Data Structures and algorithms, also prepare for some theoretical questions on Computer networks, Operating systems, DBMS, and Cloud computing.

Be confident with your answers, do not try to guess the answers, state it clearly if you don’t know the answer, and more importantly do not lie on your resume.

Sources:

The first round will be the mass elimination round so it is very important to have strong aptitude. Here are few of the materials I used for my preparation: