Horje
PubMatic Interview Experience For SDE (On-Campus)

Round 1:

In total, there are 17 questions.

15 MCQs + 2 coding questions

There were 211 students in round 1, and 20 were selected for the next rounds, including me.

Before the technical interview, they asked us to give our top 3 preferred languages for the next round. The choice of language is between Scala, Java, JavaScript, and C programming.

Round 2: (First Technical Interview)

The interviewer is quite friendly.

  • The interviewer asked me to introduce myself.
  • Then asked me to explain my project (I explained my final-year group project).
  • After that, questions related to the project, like what my role was in the project and how it was different from the existing applications.
  • Then asked me to explain the four pillars of the OOPS.
  • Difference between abstract class and interface.
  • Questions about hashmap.
  • Then the interview moves on to the main part i.e DSA,
  1. Given an array and a target number, find the first subarray that has a sum equal to the target.
  2. Given a linked list and target, delete the last node in the linked list having a value equal to the target.
  • Question-based on joins
  • SQL query to find the second-highest salary in the table.

The interview went for 1 hour, including me few students selected for the second technical.

Round 3 : (Second Technical Interview)

  • Introduce yourself.
  • Explain the project and questions related to it same as the first round.
  • Explain Encapsulation and abstraction with real-life examples.
  • Why string is immutable?
  • Internal working of hashmap.
  • Data Structure and algorithm question
  1. Decode the string
  • Input Output
  • [a2[b]] : abb
  • 2[b3[a]]] : baaabaaa
  • 3[a2[b]] : abcbcabcbcabcbc
  • Explain the program, process and thread.
  • What is deadlock? Deadlock avoidance conditions.
  • What is a semaphore?
  • SQL query to find the number of distinct employees.

The interview went for 1 hr 20 min.

Only three students were selected for the HR round.




Reffered: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org


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