I was rejected by a few companies like Microsoft(Coding round not cleared, solved 3 in 45 minutes though), Google(Resume not shortlisted) and myKaarma(Eliminated in the Final Interview Round), I got selected in Oracle. Due to the Internship Hiring Process being completely virtual, a number of students got selected due to cheating, googling, cheating in groups, cheating from candidates who have got an offer, and a lot more. A similar situation is existing in most of the colleges at this time. And you know that clearing coding round is the most difficult in the entire process. Due to this, in some companies, even after scoring approximately 75% or more of the marks, I got eliminated in coding rounds.

No Issues! This time it was completely luck-based I can say that! myKaarma interview was the first interview which I gave and I think clearing the first one isn’t everybody’s cup of tea.

Oracle came to our campus with two profiles:

1. Server Technology (open for CSE, ECE, EEE, MnC)
2. Application Engineer(open for CSE, ECE, EEE, MnC, CIVIL, MECH, CHEMICAL).

Qualifying test for interview: An MCQ Test that was proctored and held on the Oracle Test Platform. We had to solve about 70-80 questions in 107 minutes. All questions were divided into subsets. Each subset had its own time for solving. There were 4 subsets:

1. English and Communication Skill Assessments(20 minutes)
2. Software Engineering Basics(45 minutes)
3. OS, OOPS, DBMS, Networking(22 minutes)
4. Data Structures and Aptitude(20 minutes)

I may have misnamed the sections but there were 4 of them and might have a difference in timings by 5-10 minutes here as I don’t remember exactly. Now each subset had 4-5 more subsets within them having 5-10 questions in each and you were given a specific time for each ranging between 3-12 minutes for each subset. I can conclude this was some test that nobody can pass with cheating as if you cheat you will run short of time. Also, there was no negative marking so yes guess and luck may work   but you need to have some idea about the question. Blind guess will require very good luck! The worst thing was that you cannot come back to a question once you have seen it and gone to the next one! So yes, you need to solve it in one go.

Sample Question which I remember as I didn’t solve it because of being time-consuming:

• You were given a tree structure with many algorithms like rotating trees etc. in JAVA. The code was about 2-3 pages long and then you had 3-4 questions from it. It was one of the questions.

There were similar questions. They checked your speed, your knowledge, your debugging skills, and yes your accuracy! They love JAVA as they own it!. Everything was in Java. They asked OOPS through code debugging and output prediction and not just simple definitions. You need to have in-depth knowledge of CS Fundamentals, JAVA(basics of Java will work), Data Structures, and Algorithms.

Being an Electronics Student, I have very little knowledge(which is insufficient) of OS, DBMS, Networking, etc. I prepared OOPS in Java very well in CS Fundamentals, so I answered the questions with ease.

Based on the performance in the test and in each subsection, they shortlisted students for Server Technology and Application Engineer Profile. Among 600-700 students (the rough idea of 6 branches), the shortlisted nearly 40 students for each profile for Interviews. I was shortlisted for Server Tech Profile. Both of my interviewers were very friendly.

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