Accolite

Role: Software Engineer

College: Not Specified

Interview Date: Not Specified

Interview Type: Off-Campus

Result: Not Specified (Implied Successful Progression Through Rounds)

Difficulty: Medium

Rounds: 4 rounds

Topics Asked: Quizzes, Graph (BFS, DFS), Linked List, Tree, Resume-based, OOPs, DBMS (joins, SQL queries), Projects, String coding

Experience:

This off-campus interview experience for a Software Engineer role at Accolite Digital involved four main rounds.

Round 1 (MCQ based round): Candidates had to attempt 15-20 quizzes on the Eduthrill website, each consisting of 5 questions to be answered in 2 minutes, aiming for an average score of 60%. Successful candidates received an email for the coding round after a few days.

Round 2 (Coding - 1 hour): This round presented one coding question, generally related to graphs. Knowledge of Breadth-First Search (BFS) and Depth-First Search (DFS) was crucial for solving it. A score of 80% or above in this round was required to get a call for the technical interview.

Round 3 (Technical Interview-1 – 60 minutes): This round was purely focused on Data Structures. The interviewer asked four medium-level questions based on linked lists and trees.

• Coding Questions:
• Delete a node in a single linked list (reference: GeeksforGeeks problem).
• Calculate depth/height of a tree.
• Add two linked lists such that each element represents a digit of a number, with the linked lists in reverse order. The twist was to solve it without using any extra space. Example: Linkedlist1 (1->2->9), LinkedList2 (8->4) and Resultant linkedlist (2->1->3).

Round 4 (Technical Interview-2 – 60 minutes): This round covered a broader range of technical topics.

• Questions:
• Resume-based questions.
• OOPs concept questions.
• What are joins and their types in the database? Two SQL queries were also asked.
• Write a program to show overriding.
• Questions on projects mentioned in the resume.
• Simple string coding questions were also part of this round.