Om Latkar

eQ Technologic - SDE Interview Experience 👨‍💻🎓

eQ Technologic is a product-based company that visits PICT every year as part of its recruitment drive, offering opportunities for two key roles: Software Development Engineer (SDE) and Quality Assurance (QA). The company follows a highly selective recruitment process, where selections are purely based on strong interview performance, testing the basics and fundamentals of everything mentioned in your resume.

For our batch, the company had conducted its campus placement drive virtually in August 2025.

🎯 Round 1 - Online Assessment (Around 70 mins) (Date:04/08/2025)

The OA was conducted on the SHL platform and was divided into two sections-

• Aptitude & Logical Reasoning : This section comprises 14 logical reasoning, English, and aptitude-based questions to be solved within 14 minutes. The questions ranged from easy to medium level, but speed and accuracy were critical factors. To receive full credit for this question, all test cases must be executed and passed successfully.

• Coding Questions: The second section contained two easy coding problems to be solved in 45 minutes. Both of them were based on arrays.

🎯 Round 2 - Technical Interview 1(Date:05/08/2028)

Following the OA, around 50 candidates were shortlisted for the virtual technical interviews of the SDE role.

• The Interview began with my introduction followed by some DSA qs:

1.Change array elements to array+reverse(array) without using any extra space for eg. an array [2,4,3,7,5] must be changed to [7,11,6,11,7].
2.Reverse Linked List

It was followed by qs on OOP concepts such as Copy Constructor(diff between default and manual), abstraction vs encapsulation, Inheritance.

After that, a discussion based on my resume and projects took place, where the interviewer cross-questioned a bit on some of the features and tech stack.

I was then asked about some basic git commands and their use.

Lastly, I was asked to write a few SQL queries:

1.Find the employee with nth highest salary.
2.For each department, print all employees in that department sorted by their name.
3.Create a basic database design for any customer application.

• I was asked to share my screen the whole time and explain these concepts, using Notepad/online compiler for coding.

🎯 Round 3 - Technical Interview 2 (Around 45-50 minutes) (Date:05/08/2025)

• The session began with my introduction, followed by a brief overview of my projects, where I explained some of the projects in my resume.

• It was followed by questions on OOPs concepts like:

1.Interface in Java
2.Difference between Abstraction and Interface
3.Diamond problem and how to solve it in C++ and Java

Then he asked me some DSA qs:

1.Longest increasing subsequence in array(both contiguous and non-contiguous)
2.Check if a binary tree is balanced
3.Complexity to insert, update, delete in BST

Lastly, the interview ended with some SQL queries based on joins, and then me asking some questions to the interviewer.

The Call that changed my life

So the technical interviews ended at around 7pm. Some of my friends started getting call that they are selected for next round:which was a coding assessment of 90 mins the next day at 7:25 am.

Initially I was hopeful, but I didn't get a call till 9pm. After that my hopes started falling, still I waited till 12pm, didn't get a call. Then I told my parents that I wasn't selected for the next round and went to sleep(in depression) at around 1am.

Suddenly, in deep sleep, I heard a call, and I woke up. It was 5:50 in the morning. When I saw an unknown number, my hopes were alive again. I picked up the call, I was told that I was selected for the next round which was at 7:25am.

🎯 Round 4 - Coding Assessment(Which I could have easily missed)
(Date:06/08/2025)

18 people were selected for this round.

We were mailed a problem statement and were told to submit the solution in 90 minutes. We had to print a calendar for 9 months in 2 columns such that odd months should be in 1st column and even months in 2nd.

We had to write the code on Notepad++ and then mail the txt file after 90 mins.

🎯 Round 5 - Techno-HR Interview (Date:06/08/2025)

All 18 were shortlisted for the final round. My interviewer was the Director and Head of Talent Acquisition at eQ.

• The interviewer asked me to share screen and run the code that I mailed. He asked me to make a few changes. His main aim was to generalize my hardcoded code.

• The interview proceeded with typical HR questions, covering strengths, weaknesses, and hobbies.

The duration of this round was approximately 25 minutes.

✅ Conclusion

After a rigorous multi-round selection process, 15 out of 18 candidates, including myself, secured a full-time SDE role at eQ Technologic.

After each round interviewer asked if I had any questions for him/her, so I mostly asked questions related to my role and work culture.

This journey truly tested my technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and interview readiness, challenging me to sharpen my core knowledge and logical thinking under pressure.

Performing well in all rounds requires a solid grasp of fundamentals and everything on your resume. Interviewers focus more on thought process, problem-solving, and coding logic than just the final answer. Strong knowledge of DSA, OOP and DBMS along with clear communication, confidence, and structured thinking, greatly boosts your chances.

A special thanks to PICT for giving me this opportunity (and the 5:50am call)!!