Aptitude test was round 1. After that around 50 students were selected for interviews. They had an HR round first, and then technical round. HR round was just a formality and sort of a hygiene check. Technical round was relatively easy and comfortable
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked me to explain pseudocode for following question:
You have a string that is made of 'AM' substring. It can only be expended in 2 ways: 'AMAM', 'AAMM'. Now the 4 letter string can be expanded in 5 ways by inserting 'AM' anywhere in the string. If given a long string, how to check if it is valid and following the above rules
I applied through university. I interviewed at Optum in Oct 2020
Interview
Went over codility questions and was asked a few behavioral questions. Codility questions were Leetcode easy-medium.
During the technical part, I was is another programming language would I use? Why do you think we are testing you on this?
For the behavioral questions, I was asked how would I solve a problem? When you encounter a bug, how do you go about fixing it?
Overall, the technical was very easy. The interview just goes over it and asks the same question of how would you do this differently and what programming langauge. The interview admitted that they literally saw my codility assessment 10min the actual interview which is probably why the questions were very barebones.
The behavioral part of the interview was very brief for some reason. I was literally asked, "How do you solve a problem?" and "How do you find a bug and fix it?" and that was it. The interviewer didn't even follow up on the things I said or asked in-depth questions about my work experience from my resume.
There was a phone screening and then a remote interview. Remote interview just asked for the basics, fundamentals of computer science, and any related experiences. It was a long friendly conversation.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Optum (Eden Prairie, MN) in Oct 2022
Interview
The interviewing experience for their internship, consisted of a video-recorded interview and a virtual zoom interview. Mostly behavioral questions with a few questions about past technical work on your resume. The interview was with a real engineer at the company, not an HR person.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Is there a situation in that you were not given enough information to complete a project? If so explain what you did to overcome it.