Company: ION Group
Role: Technical Analyst
Mode: On-Campus
Date: 25/07/2025

Round 1: Online Assessment in HarkRank

Duration: 120 minutes

• No. of Questions: 95 questions
• Type: Mostly aptitude, logical reasoning, and basic technical questions
• Note: Time management was the key. We had to solve questions as fast as possible.

Round 2: Online Interview (MS TEAMS)

Duration: 60 minutes

Questions Asked:

• Self-introduction
• Project discussion
• Questions about the institution
• What do you know about ION?
• How do you maintain workload balance?
• What do you think about the Technical Analyst role?
• How would you explain what is Ai to a kid aged 4 to 8?
• A case-based question on teamwork: “Have you ever faced a situation where you had to lead or make a decision in a team?”

Resume-based Questions:

• Questions on AWS (from resume):
• What is EC2? (Full form and purpose)
• What are AWS security groups?
• How to clear cache memory in AWS?
• How are Gmail services handled in AWS?

Technical Questions:

• Write a program to count the frequency of each character in a string.
  Concepts from DBMS:
• Subnetting (basic check/uncheck logic)
• Subqueries
• Normalization

Puzzle:

A cube puzzle: A rat is placed on one corner of a cube. It has to go to the diagonally opposite corner but is not allowed to move diagonally. What is the minimum distance it will travel?

Final Outcome
Unfortunately, I was not selected in the 2 round. But it was a great learning experience, especially for understanding time management, resume-based preparation, and puzzle-solving.

Tips for Future Aspirants

• Practice aptitude and logical reasoning regularly.
• Prepare resume projects thoroughly – especially if you mention cloud tools like AWS.
• Brush up basics of CSE CORE Concepts.
• Be ready for behavioral and situational judgment questions.
• Time management is very important for ION’s assessments.