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No Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore Aug 2011 – Reviewed Jul 07, 2012
Interview Details The interview was a 1:1 process over a period of two days with two individuals. it was a preliminary process. The first round was comparitively easy, but the second round interviewer however sweet posted an unlikely scenario and wouldnt accept nor comment on the answers that i gave
Interview Question – You are working in a banking corp with 1 million customers. You have an account in india and would like to access it in NY. How do you transfer the data View Answer
No Offer – Interviewed in Gurgaon, Haryana Feb 2011 – Reviewed Jun 13, 2012
Interview Details many rounds of interview..long procedure...dont know what they were looking for.they din't hire anyone
Interview Question – why do u want to pursue your career in testing View Answer
No Offer – Interviewed in Hyderābād Nov 2011 – Reviewed Dec 03, 2011
Interview Details Written test consisting of 10 questions (reverse linked list,bits set in a byte,least common ancestor,some db and caching design). One coding test on the computer .Three face to face rounds . I think they have pretty much standard interview process.Interviewers come prepared with those questions and if you answer them correctly then you are done. I'm saying this because they were asking about different software development life cycles ,architectural patterns etc which most of the people don't use in their day to day work. This is irrespective of the experience. Would not suggest an experienced guy with 5+ years to attend . They don't have a big setup , so growth would be stagnant. Most of the people seem to be recent college grads.
Interview Question – reverse a linked list , surprisingly every interviewer is interested in this silly question Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in College Park, MD (US) Feb 2011 – Reviewed Sep 29, 2012
Interview Details I applied to Capital IQ through my university's career fair. Then I was given an on-campus interview. The first half of the interview was a skills test. The recruiter walked in, handed me the test, and gave me 30 minutes to complete. It consisted of 5 technical questions pertaining to data structures and bit manipulation.
Interview Question – Given a tree, create a function for a getting a sub-tree given P and K. Answer Question
No Offer – Reviewed Sep 14, 2012
Interview Details At first I spoke to HR, very brusk. Asking about past experience, expected pay, what technologies I was most comfertable with. Then I had a phone interview with team lead. Very friendly, looking for lots of questions. Scheduled a technical interview. Basic array manipulation and algorythms questions. Said they were not sure I was a good fit yet but that they looked forward to heering from me in the future with more experience under my belt.
Interview Question – In an nxn grid of ones and zeros, turn all squares in a manhattan distance of k from any 1 into 1s, yielding an algorythm of complexity O(n2). Answer Question
No Offer – Reviewed Aug 03, 2012
Interview Details written->gd->technical interviews.....written will have dbms and oops based questions...mcq's,queries,programs.....moderate level pf difficulty..
Interview Question – oops design for chess game View Answer
Declined Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY (US) Apr 2012 – Reviewed May 03, 2012
Interview Details
There was an initial paper exam consisting of five question which were not particularly hard.
They included
i. write a function that gets the number of set bits in a character
ii. Reverse a linkedlist
iii. Find the least common ancestor in a tree
These questions are used as a conversation starter for the actual interview.
It is important that you get them right but I doubt if they are of any great consequence
Interview Question – Find the middle of a LinkedList Answer Question
Reason for Declining – The pay was a bit low compared to other offers
No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2012 – Reviewed Apr 29, 2012
Interview Details
2 intern positions.
duration 6 months, i.e. 7th semester.
telephonic intervw.
main topics asked in it were from dbms, os, and my self initiated projects.
2 iq field questions, duration of intervw 45 minoutes.
algorithms and computer architecture were for side questions.2 intern positions.
duration 6 months, i.e. 7th semester.
telephonic intervw.
main topics asked in it were from dbms, os, and my self initiated projects.
2 iq field questions, duration of intervw 45 minoutes.
algorithms and computer architecture were for side questions
Interview Question – indexing used in dbms tables Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in Dec 2011 – Reviewed Jan 31, 2012
Interview Details I attended the company's info session at my school. After the info session, we could make appoints for a 1-1 interview the next day. The interviewer was very nice. The interview lasts about an hour. There was around 4 technical questions. Overall, I thought the interview went well. However, it seems like they wanted students coming into their summer internship with lots of experience in the field.
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No Offer – Interviewed in Oct 2011 – Reviewed Nov 04, 2011
Interview Details I hand in my resume at university career fair. After a month, I was notified by career center that I was selected to attend on campus interview. It's one hour 1-1 interview. I was told to take a paper test first which has 5 coding question including algorithm, database design, class design. The guy interviewed me is a software engineer. He went through my answers with me, and then asked some questions on my resume. I skewed it because I wasn't able to answer the question on algorithm.
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