I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Kristal.AI (Bengaluru) in Apr 2018
Interview
Called by a consultant for the process .
A mini project to design , candidates were asked to bring their laptops with them.
2 programs for Data structure and Algo were given , to test our approach for the problems with optimal solutions .
1:1 after these screening tests .
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A mini project on pizza delivery system was asked to design .
programs :
1) WA system to add records like stocks and their info like name , symbol , price etc . An option to query the records and implement autocomplete type search so that all records matching the search criteria should be returned .
2) A program to design a data structure nStacks , n number of Stacks having an overall fixed capacity of k elements . It should have operations like push(int element,int stackNumber) and pop(int stackNumber) , which should do respective operation on the given stack number .
Underlying data structure to store elements should be only one array .
They shortlist based on resume then 3 rounds.
1 round was based on nrml DS Algo , DBMS .
2 round : asked java related questions , More in-depth DS algo
3 round : more on design part . Asked about projects etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question related to DS, ALGO , Array , tree , join queries , project related etc.
