Nucleus-Software Interview Questions

Excerpts from interview #1:

• 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?

• 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:

• 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?

• Tell me something about your 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?

Excerpts from interview #3:

• 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?

• 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:

• 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?

• Who is the CEO of Nucleus Software?
• 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:

• 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?

• 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.