MAQ Software Interview Experience for Associate Software Engineer Internship + FTE 2022
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Round 1(Written Test): Students were shortlisted on the basis of written tests that consists ofSection 1(30 Aptitude Question-30 minutes): Topics:- Profit Loss, Ratios, Pr...
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Round 1(Written Test): Students were shortlisted on the basis of written tests that consists of Section 1(30 Aptitude Question-30 minutes): Topics:- Profit& Loss, Ratios, Probability, and Basic Maths, etc. Section 2(4 programming question-60 minutes):- The level of the questions were between easy and medium and could be solved within 40-50 minutes! I was able to solve all the four https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/convert-alternate-characters-string-upper-case/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/check-whether-two-strings-are-anagram-of-each-other/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/majority-element/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/chocolate-distribution-problem/ Out of 20 students 6 were selected for the interview round! Round 2(
Technical Interview 40 min): I was asked to introduce myself! He started off normally with recursion asking ! What is recursion? Gradually next he shifted to a simple question https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/how-will-you-print-numbers-from-1-to-200-without-using-loop/ 1 question: How to handle exception handling?? Two coding questions https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/print-characters-in-decreasing-order-of-frequency/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/remove-characters-from-the-first-string-which-are-present-in-the-second-string/ I was able to solve the questions and the interviewer was convinced! Out of 6 four of them qualified to the
next round and i was one of them! Round 3(Technical +
HR 50 minute): The panel had two interviewer and one of them focused on HR and other one on Technical Introduce yourself 1 puzzle:-Given 9 balls all of which weigh the same except for one, what is the minimum of weighings necessary to find the ball weighs more (or less)? They started asking me idea behind the final year project and told me to explain about it! Then it was shifted to DBMS and SQL Difference between DELETE and TRUNCATE DIFFERENT TYPES OF JOINS AND EXPLAIN LEFT JOIN SQL table and was asked to write query Given three SQL query and was asked to predict the output{those were between medium and hard}. Nextly he looked at my resume and said you look proficient in html and asked question related to that! Construct a table without using tb and tr![write while sharing screen] What is polymorphism?Different types of polymorphism?Have you used polymorphism in projects! DIfferent types of constructors He asked just one coding question at the end and that was basic related to strings!reverse the string without using reverse keyword! Overall the Tech interview was really difficult. He cross-questioned a lot and I was grilled! Now the HR interviewer started asking me! Where do you see yourself in 2 and 5 years?? If you have a deadline and you have a bug in your code will you give the code to the person or will you ask for another deadline? Doing the first many things are at stake and choosing the second he may not know now but further he may know about it! What have you learnt apart from College syllabus? Strengths and Weakness? How would you contribute to the company? He asked about work locations and timings. Overall the HR interview was great but the technical wasn't! So after an hour we had our result and 2 of them qualified and i failed to qualify!All the best to everyone attempting interview! Prepare DBMS nicely!
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This is a candidate experience report from a maq software interview for a swe role (intern level) during the recruiter round reported in 2025.
It covers the following topics: Strings, Recursion, Sql, Probability Stats .
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.
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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 Maq Software 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.