Watchguard Technologies Interview Experience (On-Campus)

There were a total of 4 rounds: The online aptitude round, technical rounds 1 and 2, and the HR round.

Out of 199 students who appeared for the exam, only 43 were selected for the technical interview. Of those 43, only 6 moved on to the HR interview, and ultimately, 2 students were selected.

I was selected for the technical interview but did not make it to the HR round. The package offered was about 9.43 LPA, with 30K during the internship.

Online Aptitude Round: The round took place offline at college. There were numerous questions, and the time constraint was challenging. We had to solve 60 questions in 60 minutes, and a negative marking (-1) was applicable. There were 30 questions for aptitude and 30 for basic programming. I managed to solve 38 questions and qualified for this round. Interestingly, one of my friends got shortlisted by answering only 20 questions. Some of the aptitude questions were repeated 2 or 3 times for me. The important topics included time and work, train speed, profit loss, age, etc. As for basic programming, I don’t remember the specific questions as I spent 40-45 minutes on the aptitude section. However, I managed to solve 25 out of 30 on the aptitude section, so I felt relaxed about it. The programming questions mainly focused on output and error types. Out of the 199 candidates, 43 were selected for technical interview 1.

Technical Round:1 The interview could be conducted online or offline. In my case, the interview was held offline at the college campus. It was a technical round where questions were asked about OOPs concepts like inheritance, and polymorphism, and they also asked me to write code for function overloading and virtual functions. Additionally, they inquired about my favorite subject among DBMS, DSA, OS, and OOPs (which I had mentioned earlier). Questions were then asked about those topics. They also asked about my favorite data structures, to which I mentioned stack, queue, and tree. Subsequently, they asked me some questions about trees (in order traversal, BST), and they requested me to write code that specifically targeted basic cases. Lastly, they asked questions from my resume(projects) and also asked about a GFG puzzle (puzzle-16-100-doors). there were also some other questions asked during the interviews that I don’t recall at this moment.

Technical Round:2  Some students had to go through this round, while others directly proceeded to the HR round. It was the same as round 1.

Managerial Round [HR]: Out of the 43 candidates, only 6 were selected for the HR round. It was conducted offline at the WatchGuard office in Noida. Unfortunately, I was not selected for this round, but one of my friends made it through. They told me that it was relatively easy, with questions about where you see yourself in 5 years, any plans for higher studies, and general topics being asked.

In the end, only 2 students were selected.