I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at ZS Associates (Pune) in Aug 2015
Interview
Following Questios are same for Senior Application developer as well
Coding Round- They will send u one link for one coding question. Problem is fix (Two strings are Anagram or not.). You can write code in any language
Telephonic round - Please follow following question. These questions are also fixed. They may add some extra question depending upon your experience
1. Singly Linked list reverse using all possible way?(Recurrsive)
2. Singly linked list palindrome
3. How to find angle between hour and minute hand in clock
4. Binary search Algorithm
5. You have given 2 arrays given below
Arr1={Hari, sita, gita, Hari, sita, rahul}
Arr2={Hari, sita, rohan, rahul, amar}
Find unique name in both arrays. Find count of each name in both arrays.
6. Asked about previous company project.
7. Asked about BE project.
8. What is your approach to learn new technologies.
9. Rate yourself in C, Data Structure.
10. Tell me about Yourself.
Round 3-
Round 3 has 2 case study question and 1 ER diagram question. Better to solve any of one case study and compulsory ER diagram question. After that they take to the discussion on these question. For case study no need to write code, pseudo code is enough, they just see you approach towards problem.
These problems are also fix please refer following questions
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
ER Diag Que- One Store is having 3 product with unique id, name, quantity and min. and max price of product
Product sales by 100 sales employee to take orders having gov_id, commission rate, salary, Address, Phone No.
Customer is identified by unique Account No. (Customer ID). It also have Contact details.
Order table has Order_id and Product Id related
Write relational schema and data model for above problem. Draw ER diagram and explain relation between given entities in ER diagram.
For 2nd and 3rd question I cant Add diagram so please refer following explanation-
2nd question- They have given 12x12 pixel board and there are random black pixels are there, u have to find largest square formed by those black pixel in that entire 12x12 board(Hint- use matrix for black pixel=1 , white pixel=0)
3rd question- there is one big rectangle A yellow color, on top of that there are 3 more small black rectangle B,C,D covering some part of rectangle A. You have to find area of visible yellow part of rectangle A (Use some Data structure)
I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at ZS Associates (New Delhi)
Interview
1 Technical interview, 1 case study for solving, then an interview based on the solution written for the case study. Finally the HR interview. The questions were based on Data Structures, OOP, SQL, my projects, etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain abstraction, inheritance and polymorphism in OOP using a real world example.
I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at ZS Associates (Bengaluru) in Sept 2015
Interview
I was a Campus hired. The overall process was very well organised.
ZS came to our campus to hire us.
There was a pre placement talk.
1) Online Coding round- Two easy questions to be coded in 60 mins.
2) Face-2-Face interview- 2-3 Data structures Questions were asked. Questions from CV.
3) Case Study round( Written + F2F) - One hour time was given to solve 2 out of 3 questions on DBMS, Data Structures, Coding. Later Face-2-Face interview was taken on basis of the answers written.
4) HR interview- Overall personality was checked. Hobbies, Extra curricular activities.
