Adeptia Interview Experience for Software Engineer Trainee

Shortlisted

I applied for this job through the company website, and the prerequisite for this position was having sound knowledge/familiarity with the Spring framework.

Assessment

I received an exam link which lasted about 2.5 hours, with 1 hour allocated for Aptitude and 1.5 hours for the coding round.

There were two sections:

1) Quantitative and Logical Reasoning

This section contained 60 questions, with 30 questions in Quantitative Aptitude and 30 questions in Logical Reasoning. All the questions were of easy to medium difficulty.

2) Coding

This section included 3 questions: 2 coding questions and 1 SQL question.

  • Add two linked lists Link
  • Count a number in a sorted array with O(log n) complexity Link
  • Find the second highest salary from the table Link

I successfully solved all three questions and was shortlisted for the next round.

Interview

The very first question was

  • “Tell me about yourself.”
  • Your favorite subject: Mine was Java, so the next question directly pertained to Java.
  • Why do you prefer Java?
  • Why is it secure?
  • Why is C++ not secure?
  • What is the String Pool?
  • When do we use Map and ArrayList?
  • Write a code to reverse a linked list.
  • What is Normalization?
  • Query for the second-highest salary from the table.
  • What are joins?
  • Tell me about your college project.
  • Why did you choose this project?
  • What do you about Spring Boot
  • Do you have knowledge about Rest Api

I confidently answered all the questions.

Result

I waited for more than 10 days for the result, and finally, the result was declared, and I received an offer letter.