Company interview prep for freshers
How interviews usually go at the companies freshers apply to most, the technical and HR questions candidates commonly report, and how to prepare, with links to free notes and practice. Pick a company to start.
Product companies and big tech
Smaller intakes, mostly through campus and internships. Coding tests and interviews on data structures, algorithms, problem solving and project depth.
Hands-on programming rounds that reward logic from first principles.
- Programming
- Logic
- Problem solving
DSA rounds, often a machine coding round, then a hiring manager.
- DSA
- Machine coding
- Backend
Online assessment, DSA interviews and Leadership Principles.
- DSA
- Problem solving
- Leadership Principles
Coding test, several problem-solving interviews, CS fundamentals.
- DSA
- OOP
- Problem solving
Algorithm-heavy interviews plus a Googleyness round.
- Algorithms
- DSA
- Problem solving
DSA, sometimes machine coding or design, then a hiring manager.
- DSA
- Product engineering
- Backend
DSA problem solving, backend basics and product thinking.
- DSA
- Product thinking
- Backend
Strong DSA, machine coding and reliability-minded fundamentals.
- DSA
- Backend
- Reliability
Coding test, problem solving, web and project basics.
- DSA
- Product engineering
- Web
IT services (mass hiring)
Large fresher intakes through campus and national drives. Online aptitude tests, then interviews on fundamentals, your project and communication.
NQT online test, then technical, managerial and HR rounds.
- Programming basics
- Project
- HR
Online assessment, then technical and HR interviews.
- Programming basics
- Project
- HR
Online assessments, then one interview with a focus on communication.
- Communication
- Project
- Basics
Online test by hiring track, then technical and HR interviews.
- Programming basics
- SQL
- Project
Multi-part online assessment, then technical and HR interviews.
- Basics
- Project
- Communication
Online test, technical interview with networking basics, then HR.
- Programming basics
- Networking
- Project
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