Ontic Interview Experience for Software Engineer (On-Campus) 2022

The company visited our college in August 2022 for hiring.

Round-1: In this round, there were 3 DSA-based problems of easy-medium level. There were different sets of questions of all, mine was the following.

• Simple BFS problem
• Given a list of items (price, rating). For each query (L, R), find the item whose price varies b/w L and R, and has the highest rating. (segment tree)
• Given matrix n x m with values 1 to n*m one time each and integer d. for each query (src, dest), find the total cost of going from src to dest. At each step, you can only go from number x to x+d with cost as euclidian distance b/w those to blocks in the matrix. return -1 if not possible. (greedy-map)

38 students were shortlisted for the next round.

Round-2 (Technical round-1): (60 min)

• Intro (little bit talk on hobbies)
• Discussion on projects
• HTML-CSS
• How the browser renders HTML (DOM)
• The data structure of DOM (n-ary tree)
• Given n-ary tree A and B, given one node of A, find node in B at the same place. [ parallel traversal, make path pattern — write pseudocode ]
• How to erase node in singly LinkedList, Can we erase tail? (had discussion).
• Sum easy questions of the array

Out of 38 students, 15 students were shortlisted for the next round.

Round-3 (Technical round-2): (45 min)

• Maximum sum sub-matrix (print sum and indexes) – write pseudocode
• Two easy LinkedList questions
• Functionalities of full-stack projects
• What is ReactJs, virtual DOM
• Promise in javascript — async-await
• Discussion on javascript

Round-4 (HR round): (20 min)

• Tell me something that is not in the resume
• What did you like in the Pre-Placement talk, what can be improved
• Biggest strengths and weakness
• What is new happening in the front-end part (optimization, updates)
• Any questions 

The interviewers were nice and friendly. The language (during discussion) was not a barrier during the interview. Finally, 5 students got the offer.