Accolite visited our campus for Software Engineer role. CTC offered was under 10LPA and also there was a bond clause of almost 2 years with the offer.
Round 1: Online Assessment
The assessment consisted of two sections:
Section 1: This section had 30 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) covering various topics, including:
* Code debugging and output analysis
* Data structures and algorithms
* SQL queries
* Concepts in Java and C++
- Section 2: This section featured a single DSA problem to be solved within 45 minutes. The problem statement was: An ant is traveling in a forest represented as the x-axis. Starting from the origin (position = 0), the ant must reach a target position x. With each step, the ant can move either ‘a’ units forward or ‘b’ units backward. The ant cannot move behind position 0, but it can go beyond position x if necessary to eventually reach x in a finite number of steps. The task is to find the minimum number of steps required for the ant to reach position x from the origin. Hint: Consider using a Breadth-First Search (BFS) approach.
Round 2: Online Interview (Technical)
The round started with the interviewer asking to introduce myself. Then she directly jumped to asking following questions.
DSA Problem: The interviewer asked me to solve the LeetCode problem #6: ZigZag Conversion.
CS Fundamentals:
* Explained the concepts of Deadlock and Starvation.
* Deadlock avoidance methods.
* Differentiate between Processes and Threads.
* Multiprogramming and Page Faults.
* Normalisation in databases, including 1NF, 2NF, and 3NF.
* Explain Network topologies and their types.
* What is Deep copy and Shallow copy?
* Describe the use of a Copy constructor.
Round 3 : Online Interview (Technical)
The round was more focused on CS Fundamentals with majority focus on OOPS.
DSA Problem Asked:
- Implement Stack Using Queue
- Some string based problem which I do not remember now. But it was quite easy.
Lots of CS Fundamentals were asked in this round. But like they were theoretical, so if you have studied CS fundamentals like once or twice you would have answered them confidently.
Round 4 : Online Interview (Technical)
CS Fundamentals were asked. Only one DSA problem was asked: Convert Sorted Array to BST.
Round 5 : HR Round
Mainly basic conversation. No as such questions were asked. HR was telling about the work culture, pay structure and all such stuff.
Important: Focus on CS fundamentals. They focus more on OOPs concepts. I could not answer 3-4 terms related to OOPs like they asked questions about Smart pointers in one of the round. And since I was more fluent in Python, I did not knew about these C++ concepts. DSA problems asked were almost in Easy category except that asked in Round 1 Zig Zag Conversion.