I applied through university. I interviewed at Advisory Board (Coimbatore) in Jun 2017
Interview
Round 1: Technical Aptitude (15 questions), two programming question(Data Structures) and 3 DBMS queries
Duration : 1 hour 15 minutes
Round 2: Technical HR - Data Structures
Round 3: Technical HR - DBMS
Round 4: General HR
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Consider an array of distinct numbers sorted in increasing order. The array has been rotated k number of times. Given such an array, find the value of k.
I applied through university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Advisory Board (Washington, DC) in Oct 2017
Interview
Applied online through my school, had an on campus technical interview, then a series of phone interviews.
Then we had a technical problem where we had to design an object oriented solution to a simple problem (we had two weeks to complete it).
Finally an in person interview with 3 segments:
1. Review of the object oriented project that you submitted online
2. Tech interview
3. Culture fit
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's the difference between abstract class vs an interface?
I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Advisory Board (Thanjāvūr) in Jul 2017
Interview
Round 1 - Technical MCQ and Programming in C, CPP, SQL
Round 2,3 - Technical F2F Interview
Round 4 - HR Interview
The HR people were so friendly. The interview process was interesting and challenging.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Min. Element in Stack in O(1)
Finding pairs for a sum in an array. OOPS. JVM.
HR: Biggest achievement in life. Simple questions.
I applied through university. I interviewed at Advisory Board
Interview
First round was technical aptitude which had 20 questions-15 MCQs with mostly DS concepts, 3 SQL queries and 2 programming questions all of which weren't too hard.
Then there were 2 technical interviews and one General HR interview.
The HR were friendly and supportive.
Questions were mostly based on one's own area of interest.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Data Structures based questions like find the least common neighbor of any 2 nodes in a binary tree.
Programming questions like write a program to print all 'n' digit numbers with their digits in ascending order.