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Accepted Offer – Reviewed Jun 17, 2013 New
Interview Details Interview was quite normal....it consisted of a written test and one direct F-F interview...where one will be tested on finance and accounts domain...and some aptitude questions too...the whole process will be completed in a day and result will be known on the same day by an SMS....
Interview Question – nothing as such...its pure technical questions...basics of finance and accounts Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Nope....if you are from a big B-school...you would get good pay...otherwise its normal
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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Visakhapatnam Mar 2011 – Reviewed May 24, 2013
Interview Details
-Campus Interview
Hiring Process:
*Written Test
*Group Discussion
*1-1Personal Interview
Interview Question – All of them are quit easy. Apart from few of them. Answer Question
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Software Engineer at FactSet
No Offer – Reviewed May 05, 2013
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the process has written test with two sub parts
1.aptitude
2. technical programming (not mcqs)
Interview Question – os deadlock situtation View Answer
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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Hyderābād Dec 2010 – Reviewed Feb 26, 2013
Interview Details The Process started with a subjective test followed by 2 rounds of Technical and 1 Round of HR interview. Subjective test had 10 questions and was of 1 hour. Question were mostly from DS and covered List Stacks Arrays and Strings. It also has couple of Theoretical questions. Question were fresh but not difficult but you need to think the most efficient way to the solution which could have taken time. I tried to do all the questions without searching for most efficient way. I got a call though they didn't reveal how much I got.
Interview Question – The most difficult question was on a complete binary tree in which all the leaf nodes were connected by a doubly linked list. You need to give an algorithm to traverse it. Answer Question
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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Hyderābād Feb 2013 – Reviewed Feb 13, 2013
Interview Details Seminar,Written Test and HR round
Interview Question – Types of Leases,DIffrences Between Public limited company and Private Limited Company. Answer Question
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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Hyderābād Aug 2012 – Reviewed Feb 04, 2013
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A written test with 10 programs to code (option of c,c++ and java were given).. also there were 10 questions of finding the output of given code..
This was followed by 3 one-on-one interviews. In the first interview, they discussed the mistakes done in the written test and try to help u in finding ur own mistakes. every now and then, they kept asking a few puzzles.
Interview Question – A Database question involving different Timezones was probably the toughest Answer Question
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No Offer – Interviewed in Hyderābād Dec 2012 – Reviewed Dec 23, 2012
Interview Details I had an interview in Factset last week. There were 3 rounds in total, 1 was written of 1 hr, 1 technical round and 1 manegerial round. The written paper has 10 ques, all descriptive. There were some questions on writing pseudo code, questions on threading and memory management etc. In my technical round, I was asked questions on OOPS concept, writing few pseudo codes, most of which were easy. They ask some DS questions on LL, trees but i was not asked. The managerial round was more of interaction than an interview. With some fair preparation, one can easily get through Factset. I am awaiting my result now.
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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Warangal Aug 2012 – Reviewed Dec 11, 2012
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First Round is a written test which consists of 10 programs and time is 3 hours. They are quite doable with some good coding practice.
2 rounds of technical which covered a wide range of fundamental questions from operating systems, Database management, Coding, Data Structures, OOPS.
Interview Question – No question is difficult except one or two programs from written test Answer Question
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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Hyderābād Sep 2012 – Reviewed Nov 17, 2012
Interview Details In written round(1st round), 12 programming questions were asked. Not very hard. Then two technical interviews. Most of the questions were on linked lists. Nearly all subjects were covered(C, Data Structures,DBMS,OS) for Computer Science people and for others only data structures. Then finally an HR interview(just for formality).
Interview Question – Write a program for adding 2 large numbers with each digit represented as a node of linked list.(in technical interview) Answer Question
Negotiation Details – No negotiation. Campus recruitment.
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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Hyderābād Aug 2012 – Reviewed Nov 02, 2012
Interview Details
There were 3 technical rounds.
1st round - This lasted for 45 min. 2 people interviewed me. Started by asking in-depth questions about my projects. Next, questions were mostly on DBMS like how to go about the construction of huge databases like that of gmail. Some related SQL commands and about the management of primary and foreign keys in the construction of the gmail DB. Asked 1 easy puzzle.
2nd round - This lasted for 1 and a half hour. 1 person interviewed me. It was pretty difficult. Asked conceptual questions from OS, DBMS, DSA. Asked about 2 -3 puzzles.
3rd round - This was semi HR and semi Technical. This lasted for 20 minutes. 1 person interviewed me. Asked about why I like computer science and what I like in it. Gave a C# code and asked me to understand the code and asked few questions on it. Concepts were similar to JAVA. The question was on priority queues.
There were very very friendly. Hope this helps.
Interview Question – Write the algorithm for dining Philosopher's problem. Answer Question
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