Cohesity Interview Experience for MTS-SDET (On-Campus) 2022
Round 0 – Online Assessment:
Platform: Interview Bit
Duration: 60 mins
Date: 26/10/22
Questions: 2 Coding Questions
- Given the head of a linked list, reorder the linked list as L1 -> Ln -> L2 -> Ln-1 -> L3 … (https://leetcode.com/problems/reorder-list/)
- Word Ladder II (https://leetcode.com/problems/word-ladder-ii/)
Results were announced the following day and 12 People were shortlisted.
The following rounds were conducted on 28/10/22, back-to-back.
Round 1 – Technical
Platform: Zoom and CodeSignal
Duration: 30 mins
- Questions: 1 Coding, a Few Operating System Questions, and about projects
- Coding Question: Segregate positive integers on one side and negative ones to another in an array, O(1) space.
- Follow up: Maintain the original order (https://www.w3wiki.net/segregating-negative-and-positive-maintaining-order-and-o1-space/)
Round 2 – Technical
Platform: Zoom and CodeSignal
Duration: 30 mins
- Questions: 1 Coding, a Few Network Questions, and about internships
- Coding Question: Longest Substring with K Distinct Characters (https://www.w3wiki.net/find-the-longest-substring-with-k-unique-characters-in-a-given-string/)
Solved it with a sliding window approach
Around 6 proceeded to the last round.
Round 3: HM Round
Platform: Zoom
Duration: 30 mins
- I expected Behavioral Questions but wasn’t asked any. In-depth Questions on Operating Systems and Networks were asked.
Two were selected for Internship+FTE.
Tips: Know your OS concepts well, the IPCs in Linux, and the Networking concepts well, I can’t stress the importance of the OSI Model enough.
All the best!