Practo Interview Questions

(A student with profile 7.8 CGPA in graduation, 77.33 % in 12^th and 79.12% in 10^th)

Technical interview:

What is event bubbling?
What is the difference between .on (click function ()) and .click (function ())?
Design a database schema for a movie website where a user can rate, recommend a movie.
Write a function to check if two strings are anagram or not.
Write a query to fetch duplicate email from table.

HR interview:

(A student with profile 8.1 CGPA in graduation, 73.3 % in 12^th and 79.2% in 10^th)

Technical interview:

How to implement queue with the help of two stacks.
What is left join. Give example and what is full outer join?
What is magic functions and auto loading in php?
Write a code to find if a number is a power of 2 or not?
Given an array of integers which can be in one of four order – 1.Increasing 2.Decreasing 3.decreasing then increasing 4.increasing then decreasing .Write a function to find the type of array.

HR interview:

What new value can you add to our organization?
A difficult situation was described. How would you deal with this situation?
Tell me a time when you were disappointed in your behavior.
What were your favorite subjects during the course of your study?
What projects did you undertake during your engineering? Describe your role in these projects.
How would rate yourself in technical and communication skills?

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(A student with profile 8.5 CGPA in graduation, 89 % in 12^th and 80.3% in 10^thapplying for a Software Engineer )

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HR interview:

(A student with profile 8.0 CGPA in graduation, 79.3 % in 12^th and 75.3% in 10^thapplying for a Software Engineer )

Technical interview:

Write the shortest path algorithm for a graph.
What is binary tree insertion?
What ‘lex’ does?
Tell me the difference between a constructor and a method in C++.
What are the various IPC mechanisms? Why is message passing expensive than semaphore?
What happens when main () method is declared as private?

HR interview:

How do you see your progress while working at Practo?
Who or what has had the greatest influence on your life?
What motivates you to put forth your best effort?
How has your education prepared you for a career?
What qualifications do you have that make you think that you will be successful in this career?
How do you define or evaluate success?
Why motivates you to join the company?
What is the reason behind your numerous rejections in the campus placement processes?
Describe your various hobbies. What do you like to do in your free time?

(A student with profile 7.9 CGPA in graduation, 87.3 % in 12^th and 79.3% in 10^thapplying for a Software Engineer )

Technical interview:

HR interview:

Has there been a situation when you’ve had any idea but have not been able to implement it?
What are your interests and hobbies? How do you spend your free time?
Do you have any plans for further education?
How much training do you think you'll need to become a productive employee?
What qualities do you feel a successful manager should have?
Why do you want to work in our organization?
Would you like to ask us anything?

(A student with profile 7.8 CGPA in graduation, 85.4 % in 12^th and 75.4% in 10^thapplying for a Software Engineer )

Technical interview:

Write a code to find the total number of unique palindrome sub sequences from a string.
How many times do you reuse the code that you develop? How do you reuse it?
Tell me about cloud computing?
Tell me operating system in mobile.
Why doesn’t FORTRAN support recursion?
Tell me about your mobile phone configuration.

HR interview:

Suppose you have to submit an assignment in one hour and say, the power goes out. What steps will you undertake?
Why should we select you over others?
Do you enjoy doing independent research?
Where do you want to be ten years from now?
Why did you choose this career?
When did you decide on this career?

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