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      Associate Systems Engineer Interview

      31 Jul 2016
      Anonymous employee
      Bengaluru
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at IBM (Bengaluru) in Mar 2016

      Interview

      Round 1: 90 minutes 20 MCQs and 2 Programming Questions. Programs were based on Strings and Arrays. The modules were already given by the company itself. The first was conducted in HackerRank. Round 2: 75 minutes. Pen and paper test. It is also a programming round. The number of questions will be get increased based on your solving ability within that 75 minutes. They need O(1) solution for those questions, if it possible. Otherwise, they need the best solution for the given question. They sat in front of me and assess my code. Programming language is not a matter. You can use your preferable language. I prefer Python and C programming. Note: They are very clear in this. Don’t use any inbuilt functions. Sometimes, even striking out the code was not allowed. Round 3: 45 – 60 minutes They ask me 2 programming questions and 3 testing and troubleshooting questions. As usual, for coding they need only the best solutions. For testing and troubleshooting, they need at least 30 – 40 test cases and troubleshooting techniques. For me, He didn’t ask me to stop until i write 35 for each. I wrote 35 as minimum and 68 as maximum. While you writing the solutions, they thoroughly go through your resumes and ask questions from that. After the third completed, You can ask questions to the HR before you come out from.

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      Question 1

      1. Storage Classes in C-asked me almost every thing.(long discussion) 2. Memory layout of C programs.(he was looking for the details) 3. structure and union (every minute detail) 4. Complicated C declaration (asked to write prototype of functions) 5. Constant pointers and pointers to constant(he asked me to explain through diagram) 6. Structure padding and alignment.(why padding,how does it helps,how do we force complier not to allow padding) 7. Dangling pointers,malloc,caloc,realloc,free Quite long discussion.Other questions like how does free operator knows how much memory to freed.A lot more questions. 8. Questions on pointers(single pointer,double pointer and a lot) 9. About MACROS and preprocessor. 10. Preincrement and postincrement operator(was asked to write output and logic behind it) 11. Inline functions,dyanamic arrays,enum, and a lot 12. about OOPS
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