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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Pune, India

January 1, 2025
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Process

I applied through my college placement cell. There were 3 rounds

Round - Online assessment in college

Round - Technical round

Round - Technical round + Managerial round

Questions

  1. Online Assessment Coding Question: A variation of "Buy and Sell Stock - 1" Bash Script: Required to write a script MCQs on: OS, Data Structures, DBMS, SQL, OOPs, Java, and Python code snippets Platform: HackerRank The OA was quite easy. A total of 40 candidates qualified for the interviews.

  2. Technical Interview Round - DSA Questions: Move all zeros to the end of an array. Find the missing element in an array that should contain elements from 1 to N, where N is the size of the array. SQL: Write a simple query using JOINS. Linux Commands: Asked about basic Linux commands I was familiar with. Other Topics: OSI Model Interfaces and their purpose Polymorphism The interviewer himself mentioned that I was an excellent candidate and informed me that I was moving to the next round. He seemed quite happy with my performance!

24 candidates were selected for the second round.

  1. Technical + Managerial Interview Round DSA Questions: Remove duplicates from an array. Apply the above logic, but this time on characters instead of numbers. HR & General Questions: Asked about my background, including: Whether I was planning for an MS. My parents' occupations. Whether I was from Pune. Asked math puzzles. Scenario-based questions: "How would you handle a situation where your team lead is wrong?" Technical Discussions: Discussed web applications and my projects. Asked about the Network and Application tabs in Chrome Developer Tools. One interesting observation was that the interviewer kept referring to me as a future employee. Multiple times, he mentioned things like, "When you join, you will work with this tech stack", "You will receive training on...", etc.

Final Results: After 11 days, the results were announced. Out of 24 candidates, 9 were selected for a Full-Time Employee (FTE) role.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 17 interview experiences for the Qualys Software Engineer role in Pune, India.

Success Rate

35%
Pass Rate

Qualys's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Pune, India is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive76%
Neutral12%
Negative12%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Qualys's Software Engineer interview process in Pune, India.

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