Associate Software Engineer

Time duration - 1.5 hour, (10 mins window to login for test)
No. of coding Question - 3 (2 medium, 1 hard)

It consisted of two parts -:
1) Cognitive Aptitude Assessment - 40 Questions -> 20 mins
2) Behavioural Assessment - No time limit (approx 10-15 mins)
No of candidates shortlisted - 51

Major Focus - Data structure, Algorithms, Competitive Programming 
Point To Remember - All questions in this round were asked to explain, implement, explain and tell time and space complexity, optimise if possible
No. of candidates shortlisted - 26

Major Focus - Competitive Programming, Object Oriented Programming, Operating system, problem solving with DBMS, Mental and logical ability 
Q1 - Four Pillars of OOPs, explain virtual inheritance with e.g, 
Q2 - Pure virtual Function and abstract class with example and Implementation 
Q3 - Implement example to show difference between runtime and compile time polymorphism
Q4 - Design, structure and tell approach + DBMS + SQL query on Online Shopping Mart (25-30 mins)
Q5 - Basics And Concepts of Memory Management Unit, Paging,Indexing, locking system, deadlock all 
concepts, Concurrency Control
Q6 - Puzzle - (5 Pirates and 100 Gold Coins)
Q7 - Given a point P and other N points in two dimensional space, find K points out of the N points which 
are nearest to P.
Note - detailed discussion and explanation of every question, Implement and Explain from brute force to optimised approach using heap, explain time and space complexity
No. of candidates shortlisted - 16

Major Focus - Project + OOPS + Attitude + Aptitude + Personality
Q1 - detailed questions on mentioned project on resume (25-30 mins)
1) Business Requirement
2) detailed explanation of the project highlighting your contribution in 
the project
3) future scope with advantages
4) drawbacks and improvement possible
Q2 - problems on aptitude and oops concepts like inheritance and its types with public, private and 
protected mode, diamond problem in c++ (example + implementation)
Q3 - personality check
1) what would you do in situation if you are a team leader and their is any dispute between your 
team members
2) how would you react if any dissatisfied client confronted you
3) your short term and long term goal
4) why you choose btech in computer science and c++, DSA and CP as skill set
No. of candidates shortlisted - 10

Major Focus - Personality check, Overall Behaviour , resume based
Q1 - What is your strength and weakness
Q2 - who was favourite professor in your college and why
Q3 - what do you most like about your college
Q4 - Why you don’t pursued your family business or your elder brothers profession as carrier 
Q5 - Why you want to join, what do you know about Gainsight
Q6 - Some Questions regarding your internships, co-curricular activities like tell me about the poem you 
wrote, why and what do you learnt from joining samvaad club(the dramatic society), what was your work and role in 
internship and how did it help you 
Q7 - How do you take your failures and success in your life
Q8 - Question on resume writing skill and appreciation for resume.
No of candidates shortlisted - 10