Recently, NICE visited my campus with the role of Associate Software Engineer.
Eligibility Criteria: Degree in CS/IT, Minimum Grade/Percentage – 60% and above or CGPA 6.5 throughout the academic career.
170 Students applied.
Selection Process:
- Online Test
- Technical Interview
- HR + Managerial Interview
Online Test
An Online test was conducted on the Interview Mocha “https://www.imocha.io/%E2%80%9D platform. The duration of the test was 100 minutes. There were 7 sections. The test had a negative marking.
- Quantitative Aptitude (15 MCQ’s, 10mins.)
- Java (6 MCQ’s, 10 mins.)
- DBMS (6 MCQ’s, 10mins.)
- Data Structures Round (1 Code, 25 mins.) (Any coding language)
- Java Coding Round (1 Code, 25 mins.) (Code can be done only in Java)
Technical Interview
Around 41 Students were shortlisted for this round. I was asked the following Questions in my technical round:
- What is OOPS?
- What are 4 pillars of OOPS?
- What is Encapsulation?
- Real use of Encapsulation.
- What is multithreading lifecycle?
- Difference between DML and DDL.
- What is difference between Process and Thread?
- Explain your projects.
- A SQL query on Joins with aggregate function
- Difference between DELETE, DROP and TRUNCATE
- Why finally is used after Try and Catch? What is the real need in programming?
- A coding question, in which i was given a string and asked to display the number of vowels and consonants.
- eg: String s = "I am Mitali";
- Output :
- Vowels = 4
- Consonants = 5
Around 21 students went to HR+Managerial Round, I was one among them. The interview was taken by senior members of the company. It was more towards techincal than behavorial.
HR + Managerial Round
- Tell your projects
- Why have you used MongoDb and not Mysql?
- Why have used React.js and not any other? Whats special about react?
- Who all are there in your family? What does your father do?
- Where do you belong to?
- What did you hear about Nice from your seniors?
- Design a hashmap with "Mitali" as class and define its data members and member functions (insert, remove, search). (After hearing my answer he was impressed and may be i won there : ) )
- Have you worked on cloud?
- What do you know about cloud?
At last he asked me if I had any questions. I asked him "What will we be doing as interns if you are going to provide us training after internship to work for your company? ". To which he said that's a good question.
Finally, out of 21, 7 were selected and I was one among them. They preferrd previously interned to some company condidates more but I had 0 experience still they were impressed by my knowledge and selected me.