Discovery Inc. | SDE Intern | Bangalore/Pune | Dec'21 [Reject]
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It was oncampus!!

Round 1:- Received assessment link from the HR through mail. The assessment was arranged on HireVue platform. There was some behavioural questions and some questions related to your background which you have to answer orally and it will record your voice with the camera(formal was asked to wear in mail itself!). Apart from this, 20 MCQs were there which was related to basic concepts of dsa and small output based questions.

Round 2:- It was technical + managerial interview round.
Technical:-
The interviewer firstly asked me to introduce myself and then moved towards technical questions. He asked me about cs fundamental questions like os, dbms. He asked what is threads, processes and deadlock [the deadlock question was little tricky as he asked about its condition and occurence indirectly so i stuck at that time inspite of knowing the answer:( ]. Later he asked Relational Databases, acid properties in dbms with examples and candidate key, foreign key.
Then he moved towards dsa part and asked the applications of dsa and why do we use it. He asked about the binary search condition and its time complexity along with reason. Can it be used in linkedlist or not and if yes, what will be the time complexity. He then moved towards the coding question. The codepad link was shared where I had to code my logic. The question was a slight variation of next greater element. The question was-
You are given an array and you have to find the next greatest element in O(1) space complexity i.e. you have to modify the given array only. If no number is there on the next side, put -1.
Input- [20, 15, 10, 11, 8]
Output- [15, 11, 11, 8, -1]
P.S. I was able to solve this question just after my interview:(
Time was over so my this round was completed. The interviewer asked me to ask any question if I have any. This round was gone average. I was able to answer some of the questions and some cannot.

Managerial:-
After my technical round, there was HR round in same meeting room. The HR asked to introduce myself. Then she asked me about my background and branch domain. And some questions about my place, any such situation where I had proved myself related to leadership/advice/teamwork. She later asked me why I want to join this company. Then she asked me about relocation that whether I am comfortable or not and from which place I want to work and why. After that, she asked me to ask any question if I want to know anything related to company or its culture.

Some advice which I want to give-
1- Be calm minded in and before the interview. Have faith in yourself and go ahead!
2- Introduce yourself with a positive and active attitude.
3- Interview should not be one-sided. Don't just answer the questions of interviewer. Rather, answer it with real examples and specially in coding part, ask the constraints, do explain your logic to your interviewer irrespective of whether it is correct or not. Interviewers are generally nice, they will give you hints.
4- Do question them when interviewer ask at the end of the interview. Ask anything, be it his/her experience in the company, techstack used, growth opportunities, company culture, etc.

Good Luck! :)

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