🎯 Process Overview

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📌 Stages:

• Online Test
• Interviews: 2 Technical Rounds, 1 HR Round

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🛠 Interview Rounds

🔹 Technical Interview — Round 1

This interview was challenging and felt like one of my most difficult experiences.

📝 Questions:

• Introduction
• Java Knowledge:
  • When asked if I knew Java, I mentioned that I didn’t.
  • Despite this, the interviewer continued with several Java-focused questions, including:
    • JUnit and testing concepts, as well as automation with Selenium.
    • CI/CD scripting languages.
    • Synchronization techniques in Java, including the use of mutexes and implementing them with Java functions.
• Database:
  • Given two tables, Book and Author, I was asked about:
    • Their relationship type (many-to-many).
    • Primary and foreign key structure.
    • Optimizing database retrieval speed for both SQL (indexing) and NoSQL (partitioning/sharding).
• Projects:
  • Discussed *REST API methods, particularly *GET and POST.
  • Covered API security considerations and TLS.
• DSA:
  • Solved a basic DSA question on identifying the missing element in a sequence (e.g., [1,2,3,5], where 4 is missing).
• Additional Scenarios:
  • A question scenario involved *assigning 10 random questions to 3 people, aiming for a specific *Java-based solution.

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🔹 Technical Interview — Round 2

Focus: Primarily project-based and extracurriculars.

📝 Questions:

• Projects:
  • Discussed my *projects in detail, covering my *approach, execution, and technologies used.
  • The interviewer was particularly interested in the unique ideas and names of my projects, which stood out as they were in Hindi and Sanskrit.
• Data Structures and Algorithms:
  • Asked to find the second largest element in a list.
• Hackathons:
  • Discussed my experience and involvement in hackathons.

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🔹 HR Interview

📝 Questions:

• Family background.
• Non-technical activities and achievements.
• Details about my internship experiences.

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✅ Verdict:

• Outcome: 🎉 Selected for the position.
• Reflection: Although I felt *underprepared, particularly regarding **Java, I was selected, possibly due to my *unique project ideas and broader range of experience.