
Derived from 1 submission for ALL. Format details may vary across different teams or locations.
The hiring process for SDE-3 / Senior roles at Nagarro is designed to assess advanced technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and domain expertise. Candidates are evaluated across multiple rounds, including aptitude, coding, and two technical interviews, with a final HR round to gauge cultural fit.
The candidate cleared multiple rounds including aptitude, coding, and two technical interviews, demonstrating strong problem-solving and conceptual knowledge. The process concluded with an HR round, and the candidate received an offer for the Senior Engineer position at Nagarro.
Aptitude test with 30 questions to be solved in 20 minutes. Candidate focused on solving easier questions first and randomly selected answers for harder ones due to no negative marking.
Coding round with 3 questions categorized as Easy, Medium, and Hard. Candidate solved 1 Easy and 1 Medium question to clear the round.
Find the 2nd maximum element from an array.
Problem based on mathematics and prime numbers (tricky to understand but coding was straightforward).
Count possible decodings of a given digit sequence (DP-based question).
Technical interview focusing on resume review, project discussion, and questions on ML, SQL, cloud technology, and statistics. Interviewer asked situational and conceptual questions.
Explain one of the projects mentioned in the resume.
Basic questions on ML and SQL.
Questions on cloud technology.
Statistics question involving confidence parameters for crossing a river of specific depth.
Why are random forests called random?
Difference between Regression and Classification Random Forest models.
Technical interview focusing on NLP, deep learning, and statistics. Interviewer asked about stemming vs. lemmatization, sentence vectorization, LSTM architecture, backpropagation, gradient descent, and statistics concepts.
Difference between stemming and lemmatization.
Methods to convert sentences into vectors (e.g., Word2Vec, Term Frequency).
Explanation of LSTM architecture with examples.
Backpropagation and gradient descent.
Relation between mean, median, and mode for left-skewed data.
Why are random forests called random?
HR round discussing work culture and projects at Nagarro.