The interview process consisted of an online test, followed by two technical rounds, an HR round, and a managerial round, in that order.

The online test comprised nearly 100 questions, including MCQs, an essay, and two programming questions. These covered general aptitude, 12th-grade and undergraduate math, Computer Science topics (OS, DBMS, and SQL), Unix/Linux, and general Algorithms and Data Structures.

The goal here is to test your speed; the more questions you answer (fairly correctly), the better your chances of being selected for the interviews.

For the first technical round (onsite, at the Bangalore HQ), I was questioned about:

• Basic DBMS and SQL statements
• An algorithm to reverse a string in-place
• Related language features, such as the differences between C and C++, what virtual functions are, abstraction and inheritance mechanisms, and pointers and memory allocation.

This round is to test your basic understanding of the subjects.