MAQ Software Interview Experience for FTE+Internship (On-Campus)
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MAQ software visited our campus in October (virtually). They conducted 4 roundsRound 1 (Aptitude + Coding round): Aptitude Questions (30 questions for 30 minutes)Easy to m...
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MAQ software visited our campus in October (virtually). They conducted 4 rounds Round 1 (Aptitude + Coding round): Aptitude Questions (30 questions for 30 minutes) Easy to moderate level questions on quants like train speed-related, boat stream related, etc. Some questions were based on puzzles like minimum time required to cross a bridge at night.
Note: There was negative marking for wrong answers. Coding Questions (4 questions for 60 minutes) Questions that I faced in my set Number of handshakes. Convert decimal number into a hexadecimal number. Find least D digit number with its digits' sum equal to S . Simple binary tree implementation. Some other questions which were there in my friends' set: Find LCM, GCD of two numbers. Least number composed of 0's and 9's only which is divisible by N.
Note: You could submit your solution once only no resubmitting was allowed. Also all inputs for these questions were given in string form, like if inputs are numbers from 1 to 4 then they were given like "1,2,3,4" (Separated by commas). So required extra code to separate these numbers. Round 2 (Technical 1 for 45 minutes): Tell something about yourself. Asked to write code for Spiral Matrix on collabedit.com while screen sharing was on. ACID properties . Indexing in DBMS Join based SQL query What is searching and sorting (project-based) Round 3 (Technical 2 for 30-45 minutes): Tell me something about yourself. Why MAQ? Asked to write code related to finding the number of occurrence of words in a given sentence. And return an array of strings containing words in their decreasing order of occurrence. (I could not write the whole code even in 20 minutes, so the interviewer told me to just tell him approach, with which he was satisfied.) What data structure you will use to find total time spent by employees in the office given their check-in and check-out times, like ID Type Time E1 Check-in 9:00 am E1 Check-out 10:00 am E1 Check-in 12:00 pm E1 Check-out 1:30 pm So, total time spent by E1 is (10-9) + (1:30-12) ie 2hrs:30mins Asked about outer join and its usage example Round 4 (HR+Technical 3 for 30 minutes): Tell something about yourself Your area of interest Your Strengths and weakness. While reviewing my resume he asked a little about internships and my role in them. Asked what is a server (internship based) Asked about normalization and denormalization. Along with the advantage of one over the other. Asked solution for a situation where a site is slow to respond, then what can be done to improve. Asked for an approach to develop a system that checks whether people are following social distancing or not while passing through a society gate.
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This is a reported interview question from a maq software interview for a data science role (intern level) during the phone screen round reported in 2025.
It covers the following topics: Trees, Strings, Binary Tree, Sql, Sorting, Math, Arrays, Matrix .
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 Maq Software 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 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.