I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at ClearTax (Bengaluru) in Aug 2020
Interview
There were 4 rounds.
First Round was the code review round
Second Round was data structures and Algorithms round.
Third Round was with the manager.
Fourth round was with the HR.
All the rounds went very well. The reason I got from them for my rejection is that the 2nd round didn't got well. But I had answered 2 perfect and 1 partially correct answer. To be honest a lot of energy and time wasted, if I was bad they would have stopped the process at the second round itself but they continued till the next day. Also the HR didn't responded on call and as well as on email. Got to know the result after 2 days from the guy who referred.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First Round - Code review round - Difficulty level was ok. A problem histogram has been sent on mail. Needed to be completed in an hour. The interviewer asked about the same assignment, all the optimisation possible in it. He was quite satisfied with my code and tweaks he asked for.
In second round, three questions were asked-
1) Two pointer related problem - Was able to answer completely.
2) Water trapped between bars - Was able to answer completely
3) Split wise related problem - Was able to answer partially. Thought it as a graph problem but it was a naive array problem.
It went well and she was satisfied with the approaches I gave.
Third Round - Manager Round - Started with intro, then
1) Projects was asked - I discussed the project I did on my internship.
2) Anagram string problem was asked.
3) A database question was asked
4) Weaknesses, strengths and Hobbies
5) What have you done in Covid? these type of questions
It went well and he was satisfied. I was told no more rounds now.
Fourth Round - HR round - Started with intro, then
1) My journey as a civil engineer( I am from Non-CS background) in computer science.
2) My experience in competitive coding.
3) My computer science projects.
A feedback for the HR team, kindly respect the time and effort put by the interviewee. Also, please try to be more active on mails and calls.
And thank you for this interview experience.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at ClearTax (Bengaluru) in Nov 2020
Interview
Interview process consisted of 6 rounds.
First Round: Phone screen where HR asked salary expectation ,my current work and why I want to join ClearTax
Second Round: Machine code round where modularity of code and unit tests were required to be written.Question was to create a histogram and read the stream of integers from an input file.
Third Round: It was a code pair round which was taken by a senior developer , he reviewed my code and checked for correctness. Then he asked some variations over the problem and asked to code.
Fourth Round: It was round totally based on Ds&Algo. I was asked two questions and was asked to write the code for the same on collabedit . First question was of easy level requiring greedy approach, second problem was of medium level on binary tree.
Fifth Round: It was Hiring Manager plus system design round. I was asked about my projects. He asked me to explain celery. Then a simple question given two strings check for anagram. Then some questions regarding indexing in DBMS. In the system design I was asked to design Internet Download Manager. I was asked to design only the HLD (High level design).
Sixth Round: It was HR round . Basic hr questions and situational questions.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at ClearTax (Bengaluru) in Jan 2020
Interview
Had a phone interview for 30 mins with introduction and then a in person interview with the hiring manager where they assigned a Java programming task. With the experience with NodeJS and Python I wasn't given a choice of language.
