I recently got placed at IdeaS A SAS company through campus placement drive, here is my interview experience
The process consisted of total 3 rounds and the drive was conducted for 2 days
Round 1: Aptitude
There were 25 mcqs with 5 different sections each consisting of 5 mcqs
Make sure that you attempt every ques seriously as these questions too are considered during evaluation long with coding questions.
There were 2 problems from problem solving section where we were supposed to write the answer with it's explanation.
The last one was a coding question of easy level.
The whole aptitude round was conducted on Reliscore platform.
A total of 22 students were shortlisted for next round for software engineer role.
Round 2: Technical interview
This round lasted for about 1 hour.
Was a very generic interview, it was a panel a 2 people. They asked questions on almost everything that I mentioned in the resume.
Some of the questions are.....
1. Brief intro about myself.
2. What is your favourite subject? I said OS
3. What is swap space?
4. What is MBR?
5. How does file system work?
6. What is indexing?
7. What is partitioning?
8. How will you remove duplicates from an array?
9. Write a code for merge sort.
10. How did you store images in your MERN stack project?
11. On what part of the project you worked upon?
12. What is an image in Docker?
13. What is containerisation?
14. Write a Dockerfile for nodejs project.
15. A puzzle.....There are 10 different coins each of denomination from 1 to 10 each weighs different, coin 1 weighs 1 gram, coin 2 weighs 2 grams, ........coin 10 weighs 10 grams. One of denominanations coin is defective and we to have to find that defective denomination in 1 weight using balance.
16. Any questions from myside?.......I asked about their role in company and any suggestions for my improvement.
Tips:
1. I didn't know the solution for puzzle but I tried. I asked for hint but they didn't give that too. My solution was not perfect but I still made sure that I at least try.
2. Be calm, confident and talkative. They are more interested in the way you approach a particular problem.
A total 7 students got shortlisted for next round
Round 3: Managerial + HR
This round lasted for about 1.5 hours and honestly felt more difficult than the technical one. The interviewers were very experienced and clever.
They started with the utility of my project, whether it is deployed or not........In my case it was deployed which I think gave me an edge over others.
Some non-tech cross questions on my project .
Favourite subjects from academics and why?
After this there were more of a behavioural questions which are very much situation based
1. Who is role model?
2. What are your aspirations?
3. Where do you see yourself after 5 years?
4. Are there any plans for higher education?
5. Apart from academics your favourite subject?
6. Do you have interest in politics?
7. The thing that you learnt on your own?
8. The decision that you took that you are most proud of?
9. The decision that you took that you are most ashamed of?
10. How will you deal with people?
Tips:
1. Soft skills and fluent English speaking helped a lot in this round/
2. They were just expecting honest answers from my side.
Finally they hired 4 students for FTE as SDE and 3 interns whose PPO will be performance based. I got a FTE offer!!!