Consultadd

Role: Associate Software Engineer

College: SGSITS Indore

Interview Date: October 2024

Interview Type: On-Campus

Result: Not Specified

Difficulty: Easy-Medium

Rounds: 2 (Online Coding Test, Technical Interview 1)

Topics Asked: OOPs, DBMS, DSA, SQL, OS, Project Discussion

Experience:

The ConsultAdd on-campus interview process for CS/IT students at SGSITS Indore started with an online coding test.

Online Coding Test (Pen and Paper Test)
This round consisted of 2 easy-medium coding questions. Candidates had 30 minutes to write the code and 5 minutes for a dry run per question. The environment was like Notepad, without a compiler, focusing on the approach rather than syntax. The candidate cleared this OA.

Technical Interview 1
Out of 100+ students, 54 qualified for interviews, and only 12 students qualified for the next round (tech interview 2 + HR). The interview process was hectic, starting at 10 AM and ending around 6 PM, with 4 panels taking interviews simultaneously. Each interview lasted 25-30 minutes.

Questions covered everything: OOPS, DBMS, DSA, SQL, OS. Interviewers asked for codes/pseudo codes and queries, and no question was repeated among the 54 students. Specific questions asked to this candidate included: an introduction, project overview (group project details, conflicts, frontend dependency on backend), and two DSA questions. One DSA question was: "Given an n x n matrix filled with zeros and ones, find the maximum size square possible to create only via 1's, with no 0's within." The candidate projected 2 approaches and the interviewer was satisfied.

OOPs questions included being given a function with the same name and different types of parameters, then asked to identify the type of polymorphism (method overloading) and write implementation code. Cross-questions related to method overriding were also asked.

The interviewer provided feedback, noting confidence and knowledge but advising to present the exact final solution directly rather than explaining thought processes during coding/query writing.