Dell Technologies Interview Experience For Undergraduate Internship (On-Campus) 2022
Interview Experience
Initially, 74 students were eligible for the online test (Round 1). Eligibility criteria were students must have more than 7.5 CGPA till the latest semester and more than ...
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Initially, 74 students were eligible for the online test (Round 1). Eligibility criteria were students must have more than 7.5 CGPA till the latest semester and more than 75% marks in 10th and 12th as well. Though this was not enough, some students satisfying this eligibility criteria were not selected. Apart from the above requirements, you must have had some internship experience or projects as well. Round-1 (Online Test): Round 1 was an MCQ-based test. Though the test was quite lengthy. It was conducted on the HirePro platform. The total duration of the test was 75 minutes Section 1: The first section of the test had 50 questions. With no negative marking. It contained questions related to aptitude, OS, DBMS, CN, Software Engineering, and OOPs. There was no negative marking. Section 2: These questions were not visible at the start. You can reach this section only after completing all the questions in section 2. Before starting the section, you would be asked to choose between Java or C++. This section contained questions specific to these languages only. The questions were like find the output or the error, etc. Tips: Try to solve all the questions from that you can as quick as possible in the first section. Then guess the answers for the rest of the questions as only then you could access the next section. 45 students were able to make through this round. Round-2 (Technical Interview) This was an interview round where each interview was conducted by two senior engineers from Dell. The duration of the interviews ranged from 1 hour to 1.5 hours. Students were distributed into 7 groups. Interview of each group was conducted by a set of interviewers. So every group had a different experience. My interview started with my introduction and then moved directly into my projects. They asked me a few in depth questions about my project so as to see if I have done it myself or not. They also asked me other questions like what would you like to add to your project, what have you done differently in your project which wasn't done before. They also asked me few situation based questions like you are in a team which is about to start a new project, and they have decided to work with a specific technology but you feel another technology can be a better fit here so how would you convey your message to the team, etc. I was working on a Django project at that time so they asked me why I preferred Django over Flask, etc. They also asked me a few simple DSA questions (one array based and one sliding window) and one aptitude based question. At the end, they asked me if I had any questions. They were very linent and helpful. Overall the interview was easy if you knew your project well. The theme was similar for other students in my group. In other groups questions related to OOPs, OS, DBMS, SQL commands, DSA, aptitude, internship experiences, puzzles, etc. were asked. So while preparing for you interview, don't leave anything. Interviewers would ask you anything you had mentioned on your resume, so rather than putting anything on your resume, put the things you are confident with. Both technical and HR round happened on the same day. 14 students got selected for the
next round (HR round). Round-3 (HR Round) The HR round was easy. First I had to introduce myself. They asked me what I knew about Dell and what do I know about the role (they explained in the pre-placement talk). It was a short interview of around 25 minutes. Everyone in this round got the offer.
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This is a candidate experience report from a dell interview for a swe role (intern level) during the oa round reported in 2023.
It covers the following topics: Two Pointers, Sliding Window, Sql, Networking, System Design, Arrays .
Difficulty rating: Easy
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