Interviewee will ask about past project, what you do in that project, what you understand and your responsibilities. then they ask some programming knowledge. depend on how long it took, they will proceed to exercises.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Adnovum in Dec 2022
Interview
English interview via phone call with the recruiter, then on a next few days, the problem-solving exercise round is scheduled with two staff and last is a cultural fit interview with HR manager and director
1) Recruiter phone screening
2) Coding Challenge
3) Online Interview (Technical + Behaviour)
4) Outcome (Ghosted)
Online Interview was arranged in a Behavioural - Technical - Behavioural format.
For behavioural, the questions were fine except there were a lot of it (at least 8-9). This is considering it was combined with the technical component.
For technical, questions range from OOTP, encryption, database, etc. It was excessive to say the least. For example, the interviewer asked about the different normalisation step by step (1NF - 6NF) and the details of each.
In addition, the "whiteboard coding" component (part of technical) was also conducted poorly. Instead of providing the details of the problem and possible test cases/examples, the interviewer only gave 1-2 liner verbal explanation. Despite providing a more optimal solution, he was only fixated on a specific solution . In the end, only the brute force was requested to be coded. There were no questions about previous experiences or projects. It felt like he just had a checklist of topics to cover.
To top it off, an outcome was promised within the next few days. Except there was none. Terrible experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding Challenge:
Write a function that accepts a string (paragraph) as input and outputs a string that con- tains the maximum occurring top 30% of the alphabetic characters in the given input in each line. By top 30%, we mean the sum of the most occurring alphabetic characters is not more than 30% of the total sum of all alphabetic character occurrences.
Behavioural:
What are your aspirations?
Describe your personality
Tell me a time when you faced a huge technical challenge?
Technical:
Encryption (Explain what is encryption)
Database (List and explain all the database normalisation)
etc