Software Engineer V Interview Questions

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Basic questions only: I was from backend (unix, oracle) Unix: 1. Questions asked on 'ps' command in unix and its few options like e, f 2. Quetions on 'top' command 3. Printing mth line to nth line of a file in unix (Answered 1 method, thereafter he asked for other methods as well) 4. basic questions on grep command, like how to print 3 lines above the pattern matching line + 3 lines below the pattern matching line (check: $ grep -C3 "<pattern>" <file>) 5. Searching a pattern recursively in all files in current dir + all of it subdir Oracle: 1. Basic table creation query with defining primary key constraint 2. inserting rows in a table based on rows from another table 3. Fetching 5 rows where emp_id has top 5 salary amount. (Used inline view with rownum<=5) 4. Basic questions like how will you update a table with 100 million rows, will you directly run update query or will do something else? 5. Basic questions on oracle procedure/function (syntax only) and how these can be invoked ...few more questions, I dont remember. -Apart from that work/project related questions. Depends on you completely.
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Analyst, Exp: V Years

Interviewed at Tata Consultancy Services

3.5
Feb 2, 2016

Basic questions only: I was from backend (unix, oracle) Unix: 1. Questions asked on 'ps' command in unix and its few options like e, f 2. Quetions on 'top' command 3. Printing mth line to nth line of a file in unix (Answered 1 method, thereafter he asked for other methods as well) 4. basic questions on grep command, like how to print 3 lines above the pattern matching line + 3 lines below the pattern matching line (check: $ grep -C3 "<pattern>" <file>) 5. Searching a pattern recursively in all files in current dir + all of it subdir Oracle: 1. Basic table creation query with defining primary key constraint 2. inserting rows in a table based on rows from another table 3. Fetching 5 rows where emp_id has top 5 salary amount. (Used inline view with rownum<=5) 4. Basic questions like how will you update a table with 100 million rows, will you directly run update query or will do something else? 5. Basic questions on oracle procedure/function (syntax only) and how these can be invoked ...few more questions, I dont remember. -Apart from that work/project related questions. Depends on you completely.

Proving relevance for a role. Most clients are looking for even contractor PMs who come in to be able to hit the ground running and to know how to navigate the organization. If you do not have prior experience working at the client, make sure you demonstrate that byou are quick study with concrete examples in the interview.
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Project Manager V

Interviewed at Advantage Resourcing

3.3
Aug 24, 2012

Proving relevance for a role. Most clients are looking for even contractor PMs who come in to be able to hit the ground running and to know how to navigate the organization. If you do not have prior experience working at the client, make sure you demonstrate that byou are quick study with concrete examples in the interview.

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