Arcesium Interview Experience for Internship 2023

Course: B.Tech

• Role: Software Engineering Intern
• Eligibility: CSE – 7 CPI and above
• ECE, EE – 8 CPI and above
• Location: Hyderabad

32 questions in 80 minutes

30 MCQs

• 15 MCQs from OOPs, C++, Tree, Graph, OS, DBMS
• 15 MCQs from aptitude topics like Time and Work, Probability, Ratio, and divisibility.

2 coding problems

• https://www.w3wiki.net/finding-sum-of-digits-of-a-number-until-sum-becomes-single-digit/
• https://www.w3wiki.net/find-maximum-path-sum-in-a-binary-tree/

MCQs were easy to medium.

I was able to solve both coding problems and MCQs as well.

The next day 13 students were shortlisted from 159 students including me for interview rounds.

The interview was offline.

Difference between how multiple inheritance is achieved in C++ and Java.

Group Anagrams https://www.w3wiki.net/given-a-sequence-of-words-print-all-anagrams-together-set-2/

I started with brute force. Then I came up with a good approach but was not able to provide implementation of the same to satisfy the interviewer.

I had solved this problem earlier but did not get the time to revise topics before the interview.

Search a 2D matrix https://www.w3wiki.net/problems/search-in-a-matrix-1587115621/1

I explained 3 approaches from brute to optimised but misinterpreted the time complexity in the binary search approach.

I did not get the call for round 2.

Rejected.