PubMatic conducted an on-campus recruitment drive for SDE roles in Pune, featuring a rigorous selection process.
First Round (Shortlisting):
- Criteria: CGPA.
- Shortlisted: Around 70 candidates.
Second Round (Coding Test):
- Platform: HackerEarth.
- Format: 3 coding questions (1 Easy string, 1 Medium Tree, 1 hard DP).
- Time: 90 minutes.
- Shortlisted: 10 - 15 candidates.
- Outcome: Selected.
Third Round (Technical Interview):
- Interviewer: Senior Developer.
- Start: Introduction, Project Details, Internship Experience and Details.
- Topics: Pointers in C and CPP, Function pointer, Recursion, and one question on recursion.
- DSA question: Link listed question then moved to the coding question from the previous round and asked to explain the logic of the solution.
- Puzzle: Depends on the interviewer.
- Tech question: Correlated queries in SQL, OS fundamentals, and Cloud computing fundamentals.
- Outcome: Rejected.
Tips:
- Focus on C and CPP concepts more related to pointers.
- Focus on the Operating system and make sure you understand the OS concepts as the questions wont be basic and frequently asked same goes for Cloud Computing.
- Remember the logic and approach you followed to solve the coding round question.
