Role: Associate Software Engineer
College: Not Specified
Interview Date: First Week of October (Posted 2025)
Interview Type: On-Campus (Internship + Full-Time Offer)
Result: Selected
Difficulty: Medium
Rounds: 4 rounds
Topics Asked: Aptitude (Simple/Compound Interest, Time & Work, Calendar, Mixture & Allegation, Ratio & Proportion), Programming (Sorting, Kth Non-repeating character, String manipulation, Linked List, Searching, Binary Tree, Stack), Projects, Puzzles, HR
Experience:
MAQ Software offered On-Campus Internship plus Full-Time Offer.
Round 1: Written Test: This round consisted of two sections.
- Section 01, Aptitude Questions: Topics included Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Time and Work, Calendar, Mixture and Allegation, Ratio and Proportion.
- Section 02, 4 Programming Questions: Similar to "Sort an array of names/strings", "Kth non-repeating character", "Searching for characters and substring in a string", and "Reverse words in a given string".
Round 2: Technical Interview (45 min):
- "Introduce yourself."
- Discussion on projects mentioned in the resume.
- Two coding questions, similar to "Detect loop in a linked list" and "Searching in an array where adjacent differ by k" or "Search in rotated sorted array".
- 2 Puzzles.
Round 3: Technical Interview (45 min):
- "Introduce yourself."
- Discussion on projects mentioned in the resume.
- Two coding questions, similar to "Detect loop in a linked list" and "Searching in an array where adjacent differ by k" or "Search in rotated sorted array".
- 3 Puzzles.
Round 4: Technical + HR (1 hour):
- "Introduce yourself."
- Discussion on projects mentioned in the resume.
- Three coding questions, similar to "Circular Linked List", "Height of Binary Tree", and "Reverse a string using stack".
- 2 Puzzles.
- Finally selected, and a meeting was scheduled with all panelists and HR to discuss bonds, location preference, and package.