NortonLifeLock (Symantec) Interview Experience for Internship

A full-fledged 4-week process for the internship.Place: SASTRA University, Thanjavur.

Round 1 A coding round that had 6 questions with the difficulty level of easy(3), med...

A full-fledged 4-week process for the internship. Place: SASTRA University, Thanjavur.

Round 1 A coding round that had 6 questions with the difficulty level of easy(3), medium(2), and hard(1). I solved 4 questions with 100% result and hard with 70% result and a question of medium with 30%. The time allotted was 2 hours Platform was Codility(i am not sure) 75 students were selected from 500 students Round 2 (Technical Interview 1 for 2 hours): 10 out of 75 students were shortlisted. Fundamentals of CS(basic level questions only) Topics covered: Networks OS DBMS DS C++(depends on your preferred language) 2 programming questions. Check for Balanced Brackets in an expression (well-formedness) using Stack The program that displays true if all the letters in the string are in ascending order.

Input: aaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbcccccpppppp Output: True Input: aaaaabbba Output: False Round 3 (Technical Interview 2 for 2 hours): 6 out of 10 students were shortlisted. Fundamentals of CS(Intermediate level questions) Topics covered: Networks OS DBMS DS C++(depends on your preferred language) Project discussion Logic puzzles 2Q Logical Q 1: Consider having a 5L can and a 3L can with water coming from tap(infinite amount). Provide me a way to collect 4L of water S1: Fill 5L can first S2: Fill 3L with the help of 5L can water in 3L can=3L water in 5L can=2L S3: empty the 3L can water in 3L can=0L water in 5L can=2L S4: empty 5L can by filling 3L can water in 3L can=2L water in 5L can=0L S5: Fill 3L with the help of 5L can water in 3L can=3L(2L in S4+1L from 5L can) water in 5L can=4L Logical Q 2: You are given 8 equal-weighted balls and a less weighted ball and a weighing machine The task to do: find the less weighted ball (machine can be used twice only) Divide 9 balls into 3 balls per group. So that you get 3 groups to measure any 2 groups, you will find out the group that has the less weighted ball from that group take two balls and measure

Result less weighted ball Eg: 8 balls - 5kg, 1 ball-2kg group1 - 15kg group2 - 12kg group3 - 15kg Weigh group1 and group2, group 2 is less weight measure two balls and will be able to pick the odd one out. Round 4 (Managerial round): 6 out of 6 were offered. Basic Q on your fundamentals of CS Ready to relocate Ambition After 5yrs All the people who interviewed me were really supportive. Well folks I wasn't able to give 100% correct answers to all the questions, yet I got the offer. So your confidence and overall knowledge matter. Try to equip yourself in all the CS fundamental topics briefly. Stay confident and prepare well. All the best. Commonly asked questions regarding CS fundamentals: C++ - Dangling pointer, Name mangling, Virtual fns, can we create a virtual destructor and virtual constructor(why no to constructor) OS - Semaphore, virtual m/m CN- HTTP vs HTTPS, DNS, IPv4 vs Ipv6, why ipv4 to ipv6 Cryptography - what do you know about private and public keys Name any algorithm DBMS- Trigger, View, SQL query to find 3 top-earning employee(Select * from emp where rownum<=3 order by sal desc)