Accolite Digital (AHC 13.0) Interview Experience for Intern+FTE (Off-Campus)

Accolite Digital Hiring Challenge 13.0 is a Fresher Hiring challenge for the role of Software Engineer. The contest was started on April 15th, 2021, and ended on June 1st, 2021. To participate in the hiring process one has to register on the www.eduthrill.com website. There were a total of 5 Rounds and each one was an elimination round.

Round 1(Online Test): Platform: -EduThrills

Difficulty Level- Easy

• Details of Test/Modules: – It was basically an online MCQ test dividing into different assignments, containing questions of the core subjects of Computer Science(CN, OS, DS, DBMS) and some aptitude questions. 
• Students have to give at least 20 assignments of 1 min each. Students acquiring at least 60% are promoted to the next round.

Round 2(Coding Test): Duration:  45 min  

Difficulty level-Medium

1. The coding question was: http://codeforces.com/problemset/problem/919/d

Round 3(Technical Interview 1): Duration: 60 min  

Difficulty level- Easy

Questions/Topics asked in Detail:-

1. Introduce yourself
2. What is OOPS? Advantages and features of OOPS?
3. Create a class Student with id, name, marks and perform below operations –
   • Demonstrate encapsulation and abstraction using this class
   • Initialize an array of Students and find the student with maximum marks
   • Find the pair of students whose difference in marks is minimum in O(n) time
4. Remove all duplicates in the given string – https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/remove-duplicates-from-a-given-string/
5. Implement a stack with push(), pop(), getmax() operations which work in O(1) time: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/tracking-current-maximum-element-in-a-stack/

Round 4(Technical Interview 2): Duration: 60 min  

Difficulty level- Medium

Questions/Topics asked in Detail:-

1. Explain your projects
2. Some theory questions on C++, DBMS

Questions on DSA –

• Implement a queue using two stacks – https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/queue-using-stacks/
• Detect and remove loop in a linked list – https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/detect-and-remove-loop-in-a-linked-list/
• Count number of Pythagorean triplets in an array – https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/find-pythagorean-triplet-in-an-unsorted-array/
• Find the first unique character in a given string – https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/given-a-string-find-its-first-non-repeating-character/
• Reverse a linked list – https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/reverse-a-linked-list/
• How to efficiently count a number of failed transactions in an array with an infinite number of transactions?

Round 5(HR Interview): Duration: 20 min  

Difficulty level- Easy

Questions/Topics asked in Detail:-

1. Introduce yourself
2. Explain your projects in layman terms and what are the challenges you faced?
3. How did you up skill yourself during pandemic?
4. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
5. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
6. Why Accolite Digital?
7. Why should we hire you?
8. Discussions about salary.

Verdict: Selected

Tips:

• Be confident. Be polite and interactive with the interviewer.
• Be good at subjects like DSA, OOPS, DBMS, OS, Networking, and language-specific concepts.
• Try to give both naive and efficient solutions to any DSA question.
• Have at least two good projects.
• Take some time before answering questions. Do not hurry.
• Before any company’s interview, practice the company’s previous year DSA questions on websites like Geeksforgeeks. There is a good chance that you will be asked at least some questions from them.