On Campus Set 2

June 23, 2019

• Name: Pooja Mishra
• College: National Institute of Technology, Pondicherry
• Branch: Computer Science
• Type of interview: ON-Campus Interview

Student Interview

Our Training and Placement Officer announced that the placement drives for the final year students would begin from next month. He sent us the list of the companies and their eligibility criteria that would be coming for the drive so that we could decide which company we are eligible for and prepare accordingly. I was very excited to see the name of VMware Inc. on the list as I had a keen interest in cloud computing and platform virtualization. I started preparing for VMware through online practice papers available on PrepInsta.

Online Round

More than 350 students registered for the VMware drive. The Online Round was an elimination round or the qualifying round to get shortlisted for the interview round.

Sections Number of Questions Marks distribution (per question) Time Distribution (Total 90 minutes) Difficulty Level

Aptitude 10 1 15 Moderate

Computer

Science 12 1 30 High

Computer

Programming 15 1 15 Moderate

Coding 1 30 30 High

There was a sectional cut-off between the coding section and the other three sections. To qualify for the next round, one had to clear both these sections individually. In the Aptitude section, there were general quants questions from Number System and Percentage. In the Computer Science section, there were questions based on Operating System and Memory Management. The Computer Programming section had MCQ’s based on C, C++, and basics of OOPS. In the Coding Section, there was just one question. I got the question of conversion from Infix to Postfix. My code was partially executed because of some logical error. Still, I managed to clear this round successfully and was shortlisted for the face to face interview rounds. Only 45 students were able to qualify for the next round.

Face to Face Interview

There were two Technical Rounds and one HR round.

Technical Round 1 (Duration 1 Hour)

The interviewer asked me to explain my final year project. Then he directly moved to the technical questions. He gave me some codes on Linked List and asked me to write their logic. He alsoa asked me questions on Operating System and Database,

* What is a process?

* What are the necessary conditions for a deadlock?

* Explain the Banker’s Algorithm.

* Give the differences between 1NF, 2NF, and 3NF.

* Differentiate between a mutex and a semaphore.

Then, at last, he asked me to write the code to calculate the depth of the tree. After this, the 1st Technical Round ended. I didn’t do well in this round as I was very nervous.

Technical Round 2 (Duration 1 Hour)

The interviewer in this round was quite cool and calm as compared to the one in the 1st round. He asked me how my previous rounds went. Then he went through my CV for next 10 minutes. He asked me what I am good at? I told him I am good in data structures, and operating system. Then he began to ask me questions on these topics,

* What is the difference between linear and non-linear data structures?

* Why do we use Stacks?

* Explain the BFS and DFS.

* Explain a deadlock situation with the help of an example from your day-to-day life.

* What are the different states in a process?

Finally, he gave me a code to find the middle element from the given linked list. After this, the interview ended, and I moved out.

The scores of both the Technical rounds were evaluated, and I was not able to make to the HR round as I didn’t do well in the 1st Technical round.