Sopra Steria Interview Experience for Freshers

Introduction:

In this article, I will share my Interview experience with Sopra Steria. Sopra Steria came to our campus to hire freshers. They put emphasis on the CS and IT branches only and required at least 70% in their 10 and 10+2 exams and 60% in graduation when they visited. The entire hiring process was done in virtual mode. I will cover all the aspects a candidate might want to know before appearing for the interviews for Sopra Steria.

About the Company:

Sopra Steria is a European leader in Consulting, Digital Services, and Software Development. It was established in 2014 through the merger of the Sopra Group (a French IT Consultancy Firm) and Steria (an IT service-based company in France). Sopra Steria provides a variety of services to its clients like Consulting, System Integration, Application Development, Infrastructure Management, Cyber Security, and Business process services. It also covers different industries like Healthcare, Government, Retail, Energy, transportation, etc.

Round 1

Round 1 consisted of an online Aptitude test and a technical MCQ test. The level of the Aptitude questions was easy to medium. Most of the questions were from the below topics:

• Profit and Loss
• Percentages
• Mixture and Allegations
• Ratio and Proportion
• Simple and Compound interest

The Technical MCQ part was based on the core CS subjects like –

• Computer Network
• DBMS
• C Programming
• OS

And it consisted of questions about Cloud Computing too. The levels were easy to moderate. One can easily do them if they are well versed in the essential topics of each subject mentioned above.

Round 2

Those who cleared the first round were called for the online technical interview round. My interview lasted for nearly an hour. The questions that were asked to me are given below –

• Introduce Yourself.
• Show me your Resume.
• Explain your project briefly. What technologies, programming languages, and modules you have used, and why.
• Which programming language do you prefer? (I said Python)
• What are Decorator and Generator in Python?
• What is the difference between the Yield and Return keywords?
• What are the types of loops available in Python?

Then he shared his screen and asked me to solve two Coding questions –

• The first question was not exactly the same as of the Famous “Best Time to Buy and Sell Stocks,” but the concept of that problem was needed to solve the one given to me.
• The other one was based on a string, I was asked to find the “Longest subsequence without repeating a character”.

Unfortunately, their compiler only supported C/C++ and Java, so the interviewer asked me to explain those problems as Python was not available. I explained the logic and the concept behind those two codes, he looked satisfied with that.

• Then he asked me some questions based on DBMS.
• What is the difference between a Primary Key and a Foreign Key.
• Can there be more than one Primary key in a table?
• Differentiate between DROP, DELETE, and TRUNCATE with their syntax.
• What is the difference between DBMS and RDBMS?
• What is the difference between SQL and MySQL?

After that, he looked satisfied with my answers and asked me if I have any questions for him. I asked that in what technology Sopra Steria works on in general, how is their worldwide presence, etc. He then asked me to leave the meeting.

Round 3

Round 3 was the HR round, it was also taken virtually. The HR interview lasted merely 15-20 minutes. The questions that were asked to me is given below –

• Tell me about yourself.
• What are your strengths and weaknesses?
• Rate yourself out of 10 based on the knowledge of technology you have.
• Why should we Hire You?
• Tell me about the current city in which you live. Like the famous things about your city.
• What are your hobbies?

After these questions, he asked me if I have any questions for him. I said no and he asked me to leave the meeting.

This was my interview experience with Sopra Steria, hope it is helpful for everyone who would take part in the interview process in future.

All the Best!