Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) – Interview Experience – Software Developer

Consisted of 1 online test, 1 written test, 1 technical interview and 1 hr interview

ONLINE TEST
Consists of
1. Aptitude

a. quantitative aptitude – Work and Time, Percentages, Profit and Loss, Speed, Distance and Time, Permutations and Combinations, Probability
b. logical aptitude
c. Communication/Verbal ability

2. Coding

a. Longest palindromic subsequence
b. For a given number in string format, find the maximum number that can be made with K adjacent swaps of the digits of the given number

WRITTEN TEST
1. Multithreading
Print odd and even numbers alternatively using two threads.

2. Subset Sum
For a given array and a sum ‘k’, print true if there is a subset in the given array that sums up to the given sum, k

Example:

Input:
arr = {3, 6, 4, 5, 1, 8, 9}
k = 12
Output:
true
Explanation:
The following subsets' elements add up to the given sum, k=12
{3, 9}, {3, 4, 5}, {4, 8} and there might be more

Input:
arr = {2, 3, 4, 5}
k = 15
Output:
False
Explanation:
No subset from the given set adds up to 15

TECHNICAL INTERVIEW

The interview panel consisted of two interviewers. The first thing he asked was “Tell me more about yourself”, of course. Then I was asked to explain my code from the written test. They had our written test papers with them during the interview. We were asked to show how our codes worked and were asked to make improvements to make it run more efficiently.

They gave me another coding problem to solve.

Given a string, eliminate every even duplicate of letters present in the string.

Example:

Input:

thisisastring

Output

thisasring

Explanation:

t h i s i s a s t r i n g – The repeating letters in the input string are in bold.
The even duplicates need to be removed, i.e., the second, fourth, sixth, .. recurring letters
Final output, t h i s a s r i n g

I solved the question with a count variable and a boolean array with a size equal to string length. And they were satisfied. I just explained my logic/algorithm and they were happy. They didn’t want the code.

One of the interviewers was grumpy while the other one was friendly, smart and understanding.

I was asked to explain my projects. I had three projects that were electronics/robotics/software related. I focused on the programming part of each of the projects. Told them interesting technologies I was exposed to in each of the projects.

They also asked a few common HR questions like

• Why did you choose RBS when there are other firms focused on software development that can help you learn and grow better in the software developer field?
• Where do you see yourself in the next 5 year? 10 years?

HR INTERVIEW

• Introduce yourself
• Why did you choose RBS? What can you do for us?
• Explain your projects
• Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years?
• Do you have plans for higher studies?
• Do you have any questions for us?