ST Micro Interview of Neha Thakral

Written Test:

Had 4 sections:
1. C
2. Oracle
3. C++
4. Mental Ability

There was no negative marking.

1. C: Questions were quite easy. There was one question regarding static functions, one
had main being called recursively and we had to choose the correct output.


2.Oracle:
Oracle section was OK. Remember only a few questions. One of the question was:
Which Oracle access method is the fastest way for Oracle to retrieve a single row?
A) Primary key access
B) Access via unique index
C) Table access by ROWID
D) Full table scan
One question regarding delete and truncate , one regarding cursors (Do read about cursors, triggers and stored procedures).
3.C++:
Questions:
What is linking?
Abstraction is complimentary to...???
What is persistence?
What is polymorphism?
Characteristics of an object ?
4. Mental Ability: was very easy


Technical Interview:
Three people took my interview .
Introduction
Why ST?
Where do u see urself 5 years down the line?
Favourite subjects were asked to which I said C++, networks and Data Structures
C++:
Object-Oriented Concepts, their real life examples (asked from almost everyone)
Data Structures:
Binary tree traversal
Reverse a doubly link list
Reverse a circular link list
Find the intersection of 2 unsorted link lists. What will be the complexity of the code? Optimization was asked.
Detect cycle/Loop in linked list. What will be the complexity of the
code? Optimization was asked.
Algo:
Merge Sort ,its running time
How is it different from Quick sort?
Spanning trees( kruskal , Prims)
Tournament method
What are namespaces ? How is the problem solved in C?
Write a query to find the employee with the third highest salary.
What is dual table?

Boyce Codd Rules

How will u initialize 2-D array elements to zero in one line?


HR Interview:

Only one question was asked WHY ST? WHY ST? WHY ST?
He was the one who was talking , I was just listening . He kept on explaining and I kept on listening (don’t lose ur calm).

Whereas the other interviewer had asked almost all possible HR questions.

Well that’s all I remember.

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