Publicis Sapient Interview Experience for Trainee Engineer

Publicis Sapient conducted a drive in our campus in the month of September 2022. It consists of 3 rounds.

1. Written test (coding round).
2. Technical round.
3. Core values interview.

Round 1: Coding Round

We were given 2 coding questions to solve, one is based on a 0/1 knapsack problem and the other is a mid-level question.

I was able to solve one question. Fortunately, I got shortlisted for the second round.

Round 2: Technical round

This round went a bit difficult. But, there is nothing to panic! Everything was asked based on your resume and not exceeding that.

1. Self-introduction
2. projects
3. technologies used in the project
4. php engine
5. how to convert PHP code to HTML
6. What is <? in PHP.
7. sever side and client-side scripting languages
8. difference between <div> and <p>
9. what is CSS, and why is it used for
10. selectors and types
11. how to style multiple lines using CSS
12. inline in CSS
13. class in PHP
14. oops concepts
15. collections framework
16. access modifiers
17. what is procedurally oriented problem language
18. what is the design pattern in Java
19. unit testing
20. integration testing
21. agile model
22. waterfall model
23. alpha and beta testing
24. uml
25. what is deadlock and what example
26. about GitHub and some other repositories like GitHub
27. semaphore
28. design of web application architecture
29. protocols for web application
30. java map interface
31. difference between hashmap and HashSet
32. can we store custom objects in a set
33. azure tools
34. custom exceptions
35. exceptions and exceptional handling
36. ways to create a string in Java
37. where is string literal stored in java
38. intern() method in Java
39. message platforms like Kafka
40. java custom exceptions
41. pipelining concept
42. tree set
43. binary trees
44. ArrayList
45. what is id in CSS
46. default access modifiers and a code snippet regarding that
47. azure devops
48. questions on HTML 5
49. time complexities of quick sort, insertion sort
50. searchings and sortings.
51. the best and fast sorting algorithm
52. what is mock unit testing
53. prime number code (brute force method and optimized approach)

Note: These questions are truly based on the skills mentioned in my resume.Make sure you are crystal perfect about what you have mentioned in it.

I answered almost 90% of the questions and got selected for the core values interview on the same day.

Round 3: Core values interview

This round is quite interesting. It is not exactly hr, but similar to it. Questions like Team management, Some scenarios were asked. It went on for 30 minutes. Be confident and answer them about how you deal with those situations.

Final result: I got selected for the company.

Tips :

1. Give your best in the coding round. It is not mandatory to attempt both questions, at least give it a try to solve one.
2. Do not panic in the interview. The interviewer will be very friendly to you and he even helps you if you got stuck somewhere.
3. Be honest to him, It is not mandatory to answer all the questions in the interview. If you do not know the answer, then mention to him that you are not familiar with that concept and will get to know it right after the interview.
4. Finally, do not lose hope, Give your best until you succeed. Success is on your way:)