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Interview Reviews

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24/04/25 - IC Classes Mock

  1. Questions asked -
    1. Rank in WBJEE
    2. Did you not try any other college? | In IEM or any other colleges?
    3. Tell me about yourself
    4. Where do you see yourself in 5 years time?
    5. And what is the weakness that you have
    6. Tell me something about the projects that you’ve taken
    7. What impact does your projects have for people? (github-readme-terminal)
    8. And where do you see yourself in 10 years time
    9. Suppose I’m from TCS and any question that you want to ask me
    10. {Other} Which was the most difficult project among all and why?
    11. {Other} How many team members were there in your team project?? Would you call yourself a leader, manager or follower?
    12. {Other} The best 5 qualities that you have and one thing that pull can pull you down
    13. {Other} Suppose u were given 4 tasks nearabout same deadlines…how would u manage them?
    14. {Other} Would u be okay to work on weekends??
  2. Self review - 7/10
    1. Speaking too fast
    2. Pace down a little bit - Since interviewer’s pace is slower
    3. Think a bit before you speak
    4. Practice more
    5. Look more in the eye
    6. Smacking lips a bit too much
    7. Properly end your answers
    8. Refine your details about your projects
  3. Comments by interviewer -
    1. Proper introduction speech
    2. Good scores and all
    3. 10 year goals - talk about leadership positions / senior management positions - maybe the director / head in some management function
    4. whenever appearing for interview do some background research about the company - to let them know you are keen on learning - questions best are -
      1. what are the learning curve in the company
      2. what are the learning opportunities that I’ll get
      3. do you have any portal based learning system or do you have classroom sessions
      4. what is the training methodology
      5. like to understand the projects you have, the industry types (medical, manufacturing)
      6. what is the growth plan for a fresher
    5. company research - as much time needed to ask some important questions
      1. its purpose is to check if I am aware or not
      2. to check about my interest
    6. need not be too friendly with the interviewer - because you are a fresher - maybe applicable for mid management - as much appropriate
    7. put up a formal photograph on resume | need to be formatted better
    8. consult college (faculty in-charge) over resume format - for only college interviews
    9. practice a bit to overcome nervousness
    10. maybe can keep top shirt button open | hair a bit more trimmed
    11. “Outstanding candidate” - score 40/50
    12. {Other} Resume
      1. Check ATS score
      2. add the color blue to improve ATS (refer)
      3. Do not add percentages of 10th and 12th in resume
      4. colored print out
      5. print resume in thicker paper
    13. {Other} do not sit until and unless asked
    14. {Other} Shirt hard press with minimal wrinkles
    15. {Other} end everything with “Thank you ma’am/sir that was all about me”

29/04/25 - DKTI Mock

  1. Questions asked -
    1. Which programming language are you comfortable in?
    2. Implement a function in C to add two numbers - taking in the arguments as value and return the result as a pointer
    3. Why do we pad structs? - Alignment
    4. Mislabeled jars puzzle. 3 Mislabeled Jar of Fruits Puzzle| PrepInsta
  2. Self Review 1/5 -
    1. Could only answer question 2,3 partially

16/09/25 - Cognizant On-Campus Hiring

  1. Questions asked -
    1. HR -
      1. self introduction
      2. explain about any project
      3. what are the challenges you faced in that project
      4. if your manager has given you a deadline of 5 days and you know your task will take 7 days, how will you manage the situation?
      5. if someone on your team is under-performing, how would manage the situation?
      6. are you able to relocate, since we have offices around many locations
      7. can you work at late nights or early mornings?
      8. suppose you have to learn something new like - testing, SAP - are you willing?
    2. Technical -
      1. your cluster is Java - so you must be really good at java right?
      2. 6 questions on Java - Threads, Methods, Constructors, Exceptions
      3. 1 question on Java coding - check if string is palindrome
      4. Do you know about any cloud platform?
      5. (Tuhin) Code strings character frequency counting
      6. (Tuhin) Code how to sort a map based on values
    3. Questions asked back -
      1. Feedback about me
      2. How would my performance be assessed in about 3 months if I get hired - training period weekly/monthly assessments
    4. Feedback given
      1. appreciate your waiting till 5:30PM
      2. keep on learning about Java
      3. try to at least learn about a cloud platform, how to navigate and concepts
      4. nobody knows everything - just keep on learning, at least the basic of stuffs
  2. Self Review 4/5 -
    1. answered all questions confidently and promptly - I don’t know how good they were though
    2. answered incorrectly 1 Java question
    3. answered incompletely 1 Java question
    4. could code solution under 2 minutes

08/10/25 - AMI On-Campus Hiring Technical Interview 1

  1. Questions Asked -
    1. Technical
      1. Describe a project in your resume
      2. What application did your project have
      3. Describe the structure of the project (Tuhin)
      4. What unique things did your project have (Tuhin)
      5. How good are you at C/C++/Java. Rate yourself in C
      6. How can you find the size of int data type without using sizeof
      7. Can you have array inside struct? Write a program to do that and find prime numbers from that array (store a list of numbers inside that array)
      8. Can you have struct inside union?
      9. Pointer vs array difference 
      10. What are the different data types
      11. What are the stages of compilation? Explain each
      12. Difference of queue and stacks
      13. Can you implement queue using stack?
      14. Explain the storage classes. Write syntax of extern for file1 and file2
      15. How to implement linkedlist? Draw diagram representation
      16. Convert 32 to binary and hexadecimal
      17. Question of program in technical assessment - variation, further questions, explanation of code written
      18. Program to print only duplicate numbers in given array
      19. Struct vs union difference
      20. Why struct padding is done?
      21. How would you print 5 to 1 without loop?
      22. Can you write a #include inside a function?
      23. What does a header file contain?
      24. What is the scope of static global variable?
      25. Detect loop in linked list
      26. What is Bit Masking? Check whether kth bit set or not. (Tuhin)
      27. WAP to find the 2nd largest element in array (Tuhin)
      28. Pointers related Questions (Tuhin)
      29. Difference between const and #define? (Tuhin)
      30. Types of Pointers (Tuhin)
      31. Difference between Dangling Pointers and Memory Leak (Tuhin)
      32. Explain Memory leak (Tuhin)
      33. Reverse a doubly linked list (Others)
      34. Linked list related questions (Others)
    2. Feedback given
      1. I showcased critical thinking, problem solving, good knowledge
      2. I should explain things more clearly - I was telling the correct thing but not as clearly as it should have been for the interviewer to understand. For e.g. I was explaining 2 pointer approach for a problem but didn’t clarify more that it wasn’t a pointer in the practical sense
      3. Think more clearly - I gave a solution which was indeed correct, but conventionally that should not be the common solution to be given. For e.g. I gave the solution of goto/label instead of using recursion
      4. Interviewer told that I know things well, but I should also channel my knowledge clearly
  2. Self Review 8.5/10
    1. I was rushing while answering questions
    2. I fumbled in my self introduction at the end
    3. I solved problems in very little time
    4. I made obvious mistakes due to getting anxious even though I explained the correct thing
    5. I answered all questions confidently and promptly - I don’t know how good they were though
    6. I gave unconventional solutions to problems, which even the interviewer had to think through
    7. I couldn’t answer at most 2-3 questions correctly, maybe gave partial answers to them
    8. Definitions in my answer should have been more precise

08/10/25 - AMI On-Campus Hiring Technical Interview 2

  1. Questions asked
    1. Explain your project. Is it individual?
    2. Rate yourself in C
    3. Code for linked list insert such that entire list maintains its sorted order
    4. Struct vs union. Calculate total size occupied if both contain - char, int, float
    5. Write code to reverse string without using standard library functions, implement strlen too
    6. What is your aim? Where do you want to see yourself?
    7. What do you want to work on in future?
    8. What do you know about AMI? 
    9. What is BIOS? What is UEFI?
    10. Are you interested more in firmware development or frontend development
  2. Feedback given - care more about edge cases, redundant things in code, while writing code as a whole. Since every line is critical for them.
  3. Self Review 8/10 -
    1. Answered all but one coding question promptly
    2. Took time to solve linked list question (actual code, told logic flawlessly, needed nudge to write code)
    3. Should take more time to dry run code, check for redundancies
    4. mentioned that I didn’t like frontend development that much - shouldn’t have

08/10/25 - AMI On-Campus Hiring HR Interview

  1. Questions Asked
    1. How was your day?
    2. What do you know about AMI?
    3. Which companies have you applied and how far did you reach? What was their pay? Are you holding any more offer?
    4. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
    5. What do you expect from AMI?
    6. How long do you want to work at AMI?
    7. Why should we hire you in one word
    8. What are few good (say 5) qualities of software engineer?
    9. Growth prospects (question asked back to HR) - many have switched to Microsoft, Dell from AMI
  2. Self review 9/10

16/10/25 - Cognizant On-Campus Hiring GenC Next Round 2 Interview

  1. Questions Asked
    1. Introduce yourself
    2. Give details of final year project. Explain other projects you have done
    3. What is an abstract class?
    4. What is Callable?
    5. What is hashmap? Difference between hashmap and concurrent hashmap?
    6. What is difference between div tag and section tag?
    7. SQL query to print the details given a condition, from a table
    8. Code program to take user input and find if number is prime. Explain why using static and return types
    9. Code program to take user input and print Fibonacci series
    10. What is meaning of import java.util.Scanner. How to import all things?
    11. Do you know Spring Boot and Maven?
    12. Can you relocate? Can you work on new things? Are you flexible with timings?
    13. {More Questions}
  2. Feedback Given
    1. Question asked - can you give me feedbacks and what would you like me to improve upon
    2. good explanation of code, learn more about different java system libraries available, learn new things more
  3. Self Review 8/10
    1. issue with coding platform - perfect syntax gave Exceptions
    2. could not answer only 1 question entirely, gave answer of 1 question partially
    3. explain in a little bit more depth and clearly

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