Deutsche Bank(DBOI) Interview Experience

Round 1 - Online Coding Round (90 min)

It happened on 2nd August, 2023. It consisted of three coding questions. The difficulty of the first question was easy and the other two questions were of medium difficulty.

I was able to solve the first and the second question and only 3-4 test cases passed for the third question. From this round 26 candidates were selected.

The students who cleared the online round were invited to the PPT, which took place in college. Members from the organization briefed us about the work culture, compensation, and related stuff. It happened on 3rd August around 1:00 PM.

Round 2 - Technical Interview - I (45-60 min)

It happened to be a virtual interview process that took place in college itself. The interviewer was a very experienced person. At first, he introduced himself and then asked me to tell him about myself, college, and hobbies. While I was talking about myself, the interviewer was going through my resume. Since I had projects where the primary tech stack was JavaScript and related frameworks/libraries, he started asking questions related to JavaScript. Some of the questions were -

1. What is ECMAScript 6? What do you like about it?
2. Difference between Arrow functions and normal functions.
3. Difference between var, const, and let.

Then he asked me what data structures do I know. I told him about Linked Lists, Trees, and Graphs. A few questions were -

1. Difference between a Tree and a Graph.
2. Join all leaf nodes of a Tree such that all tree traversals remain the same.
3. Sort a LinkedList. Which sort you will use and its time complexity?
4. Selection Sort.

Complete code was not required, just pseudo code was enough and is all what the interviewer wanted. After this he asked me about pillars of OOPS and asked to give examples on them. At last he told me that I’m done and asked me whether I have any questions for him. I asked 2-3 questions and ended the meeting. After this round 21 candidates were selected for the technical round 2.

Round 3 - Technical Interview - II (45-60 min)

The interviewer first asked me how my day was going and then started by introducing himself. He then asked me to tell a brief description about myself and the internships I have done. In the meantime he was going through my resume and as most of my projects were made with ReactJS, questions related to React were asked. Some of them were -

1. Why do you like ReactJS? Which is the best framework out there?
2. How is data sent between components? Class based and function based components.
3. SetState, ContextAPI, Arrow functions and this keyword.

Most of the discussion was based on the technologies I used in my projects and questions related to them.

Then he asked me few questions like -

1. Swap two numbers without using a third variable.
2. Count the number of nodes in a binary tree and the algorithm.

After this he asked me whether I have any questions for him and I asked a few questions related to work life balance and techstack. Results were announced after an hour and 14 candidates were shortlisted for the next round.

Round 4 - ProFit Round (30 min)

This was a face-to-face round for me. Initially, I introduced myself. He then asked me to explain about one of my personal projects and why I made it? He then asked me about my ambition in life and the coming years. Few situation based questions were asked. I asked a few questions related to Deutsche bank and after that the interview ended.

Round 5 - HR Round (10 mins)

This was a typical HR round. He asked me to make him walk through my resume and tell me about one of my internships and the work I did there. Some personal questions were asked for background check and the interview ended. A total of 9 students were selected. I am very happy that I was one of them.

Verdict: Selected

TIPS:

• Be confident they’ll cross-question you a lot.
• Try to communicate as much as possible
• At the end ask questions that depict you are interested in the company.
• Practice DSA a lot because the online round is a challenge
• All the rounds happened to be on the same day so keep your energy level up.
• Don’t make up answers. If you don’t know something just say don’t know.