Thomson-Reuters Interview Questions

Excerpts from Interview #1:

• How many words can be read by cin?
• What is the use of ‘super’ keyword inside a constructor?
• Explain the concept of proper inheritance?
• What are abstract classes and anonymous classes?
• When should a function throw an exception?

• Why do you want to join our company?
• Are you willing to relocate or travel?
• What are your strength and weakness?
• Describe your ideal company, location & job.

Excerpts from Interview #2:

• How can you insert values in multiple rows using one Insert statement?
• Explain access specifiers?
• What are TCP/IP protocols?
• What are near, far and huge pointers?
• Explain waterfall model?

• Tell us about yourself.
• How much salary do you expect from us?
• Tell me something about our company?
• How do feel about working according to US timings – 1:00pm to 9pm?
• Do you have any questions for me?

Excerpts from Interview #3:

• How will you call C functions from C ++ and vice-versa?
• Explain paging, faulting, and deadlock?
• Define max, min heap and search time of heap.
• Is it possible to subtract pointers from each other? How?

• What motivates you to do your best on the job?
• Describe your management style.
• Why do you think you would do well at this job?
• What would your previous supervisor say your strongest point is?

Excerpts from interview #4:

• What do you mean by amortization and impairment?
• What is intercompany reconciliation?
• What is the securities transaction tax?
• Why do you know about the company?
• Do you enjoy doing independent research?
• Why do you want to join this company?

Excerpts from interview #5:

• Suggest a method of joining two tables.
• What do you mean by “normalization”?
• What is object oriented model?
• Define RDBMS.
• Why is DML provided?
• Where do we generally create INDEX?

• What opinion do your friends have about you?
• When do you think you will complete and be able to join?(contextual question)
• Do you have any questions for us?
• What changes would you make at your college?
• If you were to ask one of your professors to describe you, what would he or she say?
• What do you think are your strengths and weaknesses?

Excerpts from interview #6:

• Why do you want to work in audit?
• What are the objectives of internal audit?
• Explain about cross functional audits?
• What are audit control procedures?
• What do you mean by management audit?

• Do you prefer working in a team?
• How would a lecturer describe you?
• Do you keep your promises?
• What motivates you?
• Are you a good listener?
• Have you ever wanted to quit something?
• Tell me about your groups of friends?
• Do you believe in talent or hard work?