Zenarate Interview Experience for Associate Software Engineer (On-Campus)

This is an on-campus interview experience for the ASE role at Zenarate. Four rounds were conducted for the whole recruitment process.

Round 1: MCQ based online test

This is the first round after the resume screening round and was an on-campus/offline round. This round covers every aspect of the knowledge of an individual. The questions covered topics like quantitative aptitude, reasoning aptitude, OS, DBMS, OOP, CN, CSS, data structures and algorithms, Java, Javascript, and SQL. 75 questions were there that needed to be answered in 90 mins and there was no negative marking scheme. I passed this round with 51%.

Tips: Have thorough knowledge of DSA, along with core CS subjects

Round 2 The first Coding round

This is the second round and was again an on-campus/offline round and only the students who passed the 40% cutoff for the first round were invited for the round.

In this round, 3 questions were given and the total time allotted was 75 minutes. There were 6 sets of papers and each student was randomly allotted a set. The questions were of easy to medium level. The ones who have good knowledge of DSA can solve the questions easily. The first question was of array which I solved using a pointer algorithm, the second was of string which was solved using a map, the third question was graph shortest path from the starting node to the end node. I cleared this round easily and results were conveyed using mails.

Tips similar: The questions were very similar to Love Babbar the questions in love babbar 450 DSA sheet, striver’s SDE sheet, Arsh Goyal’s similar DSA sheet

Round 3 Technical interview round

The interview round was quite rigorous, it went on ~45min-1hr. The interviewer focused mainly on every bit of the resume, development part, and projects. Questions were also asked from CS core subjects like OS, DBMS, OOP and DSA, SQL, CSS, Bootstrap, Javascript, and Reactjs too. This round also had the flavour of the managerial round as situation-based questions were also asked. I was also asked to show any live project which is hosted. I also had the experience of leading teams in various Hackathons and some good level of achievement which quite impressed him.

Some questions asked during the interview are :

1. What is deadlock and how to prevent it?
2. Explain SJF and how can you improve the SJF scheduling
3. What are ACID properties and explain
4. What are the pillars of OOP
5. Explain Polymorphism and its types
6. Give the last 3 records from a table, joins, where vs having clause, aggregation functions
7. CSS background, flex properties
8. Bootstrap classes, grids
9. Javascript closures, arrow functions, Promises, async and await, asynchronous programming, hoisting
10. Keys in react and its importance, virtual dom, reconciliation in react, hooks, functional vs class-based components
11. An array has both special and English alphabet characters randomly placed within the array. You have to reverse the English alphabet characters only and the position of special characters needs to be intact. Give both brute force and optimised approach
12. Browser cookies, caches, sessions, tokens, token-based authentication

Pro tip every Have thorough knowledge of each and every thing in your resume and maintain your GitHub and LinkedIn accounts

Round 4 HR round

This was the last round and more of a cake-walk round. The HR manager first gave me feedback on every round and also applauded me for my impeccable technical round and said that the interviewer was very impressed with my knowledge and experience. Then followed it up with some general questions like who are there in your family, their respective occupation, will I be able to relocate to the location, etc.

⭐Imp. Tip for catching attention and impressing the interviewer and Do carry your all your relevant technical certifications, achievement certifications along with your resume ⭐