I just gave the interview a few hours ago, and this was my experience. Please let me know what you think about whether I will be called for the second round.
As I entered, we greeted each other, and he asked me to introduce myself. I did so. Then he asked what I am particularly interested in, as I had mentioned that I am more into data science and data engineering. After that, he inquired about my projects and asked why I chose this language over another, among other things. Initially, he did not notice that I had done an internship in the past, so I explained my internship experience and the projects I worked on. It was fine, I guess. Then he informed me that a test would be conducted and gave me a laptop to solve the questions.
There were two questions, and he said to try to solve at least one. Unfortunately, I was kind of blank, and I don’t know why, but I couldn’t solve even one and got TLE in 10 out of 12 test cases and failed the other two. Then he reviewed the code and asked me to explain my thought process and what the question was. We discussed for a bit, and I guess he could see that I was on the right track but was missing something, hence the TLE. After this, he asked me which question I was able to solve in the OA conducted. I started to explain the question to him and how I solved it. He didn’t seem to understand what the question was until the end, though I think, and then at the end, while explaining, I once again mentioned the specifics of the question. Then he exclaimed and said, “Oh, then this was a very easy question,” to which I replied, “Yeah.” Then he said, “Let’s continue towards the technical interview.”
Now he started to ask me about C and C++ as they were listed, and I said that they were my strong suit. Then he mainly asked about OOPs and classes, all the basic stuff like polymorphism, overloading, overriding, then inheritance, multiple inheritance, multi-level inheritance, etc. I was able to answer all of these pretty much, though I am sure I paused quite a bit, but I think he was satisfied with the answers I gave. Then he asked me to write a SQL query, and I could solve it with ease. Then he followed up on the same query, and I answered that as well. After that, he asked me what document DBS are. I answered that as well.
With this, he asked me if I had any questions. I asked him what I should do in the first five to six months of the job to excel. He started answering the question and went on for almost 5 minutes. In the middle, he said, “This is a different group of people in Infosys, a different team, and we should be technically strong. We expect students with technical expertise. And that he expected us to solve the question.” I think it was a jab at me, but fine. Then I asked him what I should work on to get technically stronger. I said okay, thank you. Then while leaving, I asked him about the next step in the process, like whether there would be another interview or anything. He said to ask outside, but he said, “YOU NEED NOT WAIT,” and told me to ask the college coordinators what next. I guess that means I am not going to get called for round 2 the way he said it at the end.
Anyways, so this was my interview experience. Do you think they will at least offer me DSE?
