DE-Shaw Interview Questions

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Excerpts from interview #1:

(A student from IIIT – Allahabad with an academic profile as 8.36 CGPA in B.Tech, 78.25% in 12^th and 79.36% in 10^th)

Technical interview:

What are network layers?
What are MAC layers?
What is MAC address? How many bits does it consist of?
What is 3 bit parity?
How many trailing zeros are there in100 !?
What is checksum error correction?
What is MAC address? How many bits does it consist of?

HR interview:

Tell me something about your self
What do you think should we take you for this job?
What is your greatest weakness?
Are you ambitious?
What was your biggest mistake?
Why haven’t you got a job yet?
What is your greatest achievement?

Excerpts from interview #2:

(A student with an academic profile as 8.90 CGPA in B.Tech, 75.35% in 12^th and 70.16% in 10^th)

Technical interview:

When is a switch said to be congested?
What is semantic gap?
What are FDM, WDM and TDM?
What are the key design issues of a computer Network?
Which all layers are networks support layers?
What is a binary semaphore? Explain its use?
What is cycle stealing?
What is demand - paging and pre- paging?

HR interview:

Tell me something aboutyour summer projects( resume based questions)
What do you prefer working with figures or with words?
What kinds of persons you do not want to work with?
Did you ever face a situation when your work was criticized? What did you do?
What do you know about the company?

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Excerpts from interview #3:

(A student with an academic profile as 8.90 CGPA in B.Tech, 75.35% in 12^th and 70.16% in 10^thoff campus (Bangalore))

Technical interview:

Discussion on projects.
What do you know about graph theory?
Find the number of occurrences of string 1 in string 2?
Basic concepts on OS are asked.
How hash maps are implemented in java?
What is volatile keyword and when to use it?
Search an element in a rotated array?
What is the time complexity of searching an element in hash map?

HR interview:

Tell me something about yourself and your family background.
Would you bribe a policeman in order to save time as you have an important interview that day?
Are you willing to relocate and work at flexible working hours?
What was your greatest achievement until now?
Tell me something about yourself that is not mentioned in your resume?
What do you know about our company?
Why did you choose this college and this stream?

Excerpts from interview #4:

(A student with an academic profile as 8.7 CGPA in B.Tech, 68.45% in 12^th and 70.16% in 10^th)

Technical interview:

What are process chains?
What kind of test cases will you suggest for an ATM machine?
What do you know about Master Data & Transaction Info Package?
List all data structures you would use for a memory management module?
Explain top-n analysis in DBMS.
What is operator overloading and polymorphism?

HR interview:

Who is the CEO of De Shaw?
What motivates you to do a good work?
Suppose you win $5 million lottery, then, would you still work?
Would you do something that you consider unethical in order to save your job?
What is the difference between smart work and hard work?
How was your previous interview?

Excerpts from interview #5:

(A student with an academic profile as 7.5 CGPA in B.Tech, 71.33% in 12^th and 76.46% in 10^th)

Technical interview:

Explain Trie Data Structure used in your project with code?
Why you have use maps as nodes in trie data structure?
You have given a BST, find the elements in the tree under a given range?
Draw an ER diagram of the project you have mentioned in your resume?

HR interview:

Walk through your resume.
How your friends think of you?
How would you rank – money, power, love and fame? Justify your answer?
Self analysis questions ( Rate yourself based on technical skills, soft skills, etc.)
How long are you expected to work for us if hired?
Do you handle pressure well?
Tell me about a time when you missed an obvious solution to a problem.

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