Coviam Interview Experience | Campus Placement Drive-2020
Question Details
Before Shortlisting:2000 students from 4 campuses applied for SDE role. 700 students were shortlisted for the first round based on CGPA criteria(8.0). Luckily my CGPA is 8...
Full Details
Before Shortlisting: 2000 students from 4 campuses applied for SDE role. 700 students were shortlisted for the first round based on CGPA criteria(8.0). Luckily my CGPA is 8.01
Round 1 Since this was conducted during COVID pandemic. It was remotely conducted(at home) online test which was video proctored. Total mcqs were 40 Aptitude : 15 questions Data Interpretation : 5 questions Java(output questions and few conceptual): 20 questions
Round 2 Total of 13 students were selected for this round. I am one among them. This round was conducted on google meet. This is technical round. The interviewer was frontend developer. She asked me 3 coding questions. 1) Explain efficient approach for finding middle element of a singly linked list. 2) Write the pseudo code for implementing queue using stack. 3) Write the pseudo code for returning indices of distinct elements of array.
Round 3 Total of 9 students were shortlisted for this round. I am among them. 3(2 from students shortlisted for 3 round and 1 from not shortlisted) students from those 13 students were directly given internships. This round was more about general concepts. Vice president of the organization was my interviewer. He asked me about multi tenants(I don't know). Later asked me do draw user authentication process in ms paint (I did it). Also asked me about inspect element trick. Asked me few more real life problems (Most of which I couldn't answer) Later at the end he told me about how graduates this days are good at problem solving but lacking on knowledge of real life problems (same with me). He is not satisfied with my performance. Asked me to focus more on real life problems and not only on competitive programming. I am sure that I am not gonna get this job. My suggestion is how good enough you are in coding it is more important for you to know how all this things is working in backend.
About This Question
This is a reported interview question from a coviam interview for a frontend role (vp level) during the oa round reported in 2020.
It covers the following topics: Linked List, Sql, Stack Queue, Queue, Arrays, Stack .
Topics
About Coviam Interview Reports
This question was reported by a candidate who interviewed at Coviam. LeakCode aggregates interview reports from 10+ sources, including 1Point3Acres, Glassdoor, LeetCode Discuss, Blind, Reddit, Indeed, and Nowcoder. Each report is translated where necessary, deduplicated against existing entries, and tagged by company, role, round type, and reporting date.
Use this question as one calibration data point, not a memorization target. Companies typically rotate their question pools every 2-4 months; the exact wording of a 2024 question may differ from what you encounter today. The underlying pattern, difficulty level, and follow-up depth at Coviam are the higher-signal extractions to take from this report.
For broader preparation context, the Coviam interview process typically includes a recruiter screen, one or two technical phone screens, and a 4-5 round on-site loop covering coding, system design (at L4+ levels), and behavioral. Reports tagged on LeakCode show the round-by-round distribution and typical difficulty calibration. To browse questions filtered by round type and seniority, use the company hub linked above.
How To Practice This Type of Question
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 Coviam reports consistently are the ones worth investing in; one-off niche problems are not.
During Your Coviam Round
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 Coviam 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.