Micro Focus Interview Experience for R&D Engineer (On-Campus)
Interview Experience
There were 4 rounds including an online test.
Round 1 This round had 50 MCQ and 2 coding questions.
MCQ mainly composed of technical and aptitude questions. The technical ...
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There were 4 rounds including an online test.
Round 1 This round had 50 MCQ and 2 coding questions.
MCQ mainly composed of technical and aptitude questions. The technical part included questions from OOPs, databases, OS, and networks. Understanding the fundamentals is very important for cracking this type of question. Aptitude questions were simple but time-consuming so time management is a great factor here. Coding questions were reasonably standard ones. Try to practice as many coding questions especially from Geeks for geeks and career cup etc.
Round 2 This was a technical round, the interviewer was a nice person. With a self-introduction, he started asking questions. He asked various OOPs concepts with their practical applications, Networks OSI layers, deadlock, and semaphores. Followed by he gave me a practical scenario with a deadlock that occurred and asked me how I will handle such situations. Then he gave me a diamond printing program. Tips : Make sure that you conveyed effectively what you know about what he asked, take your own time for it.
Round 3 This was again a technical round. The interviewer asked about our college, our teachers and my experience here, etc. He asked questions from the resume. Then he asked about OOPs concepts and told me to redesign the Zomato app. This question is basically for understanding your creativity. Don't give up such questions try to think something about it and if possible include concepts like machine learning etc that will be a plus point for you. He asked some coding questions and questions about bitwise operators. Please think of questions by considering the corner cases. Later he asked for some puzzles. He asked about which area I am interested in the firm. Mostly this question is for positioning you in a particular team. To answer this question wisely and based on your interest as well.
Round 4 This was a normal HR round with general HR questions. He asked me to deliver an introduction speech about me. Followed by some tricky questions like what you will do if you are
rejected by the company? Etc. Please answer this kind of question wisely this will showcase your actual interest in the firm and your future plans as well.
Result Selected as an R&D Engineer. Be creative and be a good Coder. All the best
About This Question
This is a candidate experience report from a microfocus interview for a eng manager role during the oa round reported in 2020.
It covers the following topics: Ml, Os, Bit Manipulation .
Difficulty rating: Easy
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Solve similar problems on LeetCode under timed conditions (25-35 minutes per medium difficulty). The goal is pattern recognition: recognize the underlying technique (sliding window, two-pointer, BFS, memoized recursion, etc.) within 60-90 seconds of reading. Strong candidates verbalize their hypothesis out loud before coding, then iterate based on feedback. Weak candidates dive into implementation immediately, lose time on the wrong approach, and run out of time for follow-ups.
Companies update their question pools every 2-4 months. The exact wording of any given question may have been retired by the time you interview. Focus your prep on the pattern, not the specific problem. The patterns that appear in Microfocus reports consistently are the ones worth investing in; one-off niche problems are not.
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Apply the standard interview round template: clarify requirements (2-3 minutes), state your approach out loud and confirm direction with the interviewer (3-5 minutes), code with narration (15-25 minutes), test with concrete examples including edge cases (5 minutes), discuss optimization or trade-offs if time permits (5 minutes). This template is universally accepted across FAANG and adjacent companies; deviating from it produces weaker interviewer feedback signal.
The single most predictive failure mode in Microfocus reports tagged "no hire": not asking clarifying questions. Interviewers are explicitly trained to weight this. Strong candidates ask 3-5 clarifying questions even on problems that look obvious; weak candidates dive into code immediately. The clarifying-question check is often the first signal recorded in the interviewer's written notes.