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1st Round: 1. Explain solid principles and write examples 2. Security related questions 3. Picking up skills from resume and asking generic questions about them 2nd Round: 1. Write method overloading and overriding example 2. Tell about Solid Principles definitions but no need to explain as time is limited. 3. What is view engine and name some view engines other than Razor 4. What render the html in webpage 5. Razor view engine works on client side or server side
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at OpenText

3.2★
Mar 19, 2023

1st Round: 1. Explain solid principles and write examples 2. Security related questions 3. Picking up skills from resume and asking generic questions about them 2nd Round: 1. Write method overloading and overriding example 2. Tell about Solid Principles definitions but no need to explain as time is limited. 3. What is view engine and name some view engines other than Razor 4. What render the html in webpage 5. Razor view engine works on client side or server side

1. First round was Product details round where the interviewer asked on product and technologies worked on. Questions like difference between micro-service/monolith. which is better etc, 2. Vague offline assignment. They would ask to write Junit, in-memory database, sql scripts etc. for submission. Spent 2-3 hrs on this project. 3. Analysis of the project done on #2. They were looking for "implied" understanding of the project. Doesn't matter if you solved it good technically. I found their focus partial. They are not looking for good candidates but someone else. 3. Hiring Manager: His aim seemed to be looking for people who can say "yes" to his command. No technical discussion. I am not a boot licker so failed to impress him
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at LeadSquared

3.1★
Apr 29, 2022

1. First round was Product details round where the interviewer asked on product and technologies worked on. Questions like difference between micro-service/monolith. which is better etc, 2. Vague offline assignment. They would ask to write Junit, in-memory database, sql scripts etc. for submission. Spent 2-3 hrs on this project. 3. Analysis of the project done on #2. They were looking for "implied" understanding of the project. Doesn't matter if you solved it good technically. I found their focus partial. They are not looking for good candidates but someone else. 3. Hiring Manager: His aim seemed to be looking for people who can say "yes" to his command. No technical discussion. I am not a boot licker so failed to impress him

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