NPCI

Role: Not Specified (General Technical, package 16.15 lpa)

College: Not Specified

Interview Date: March 2024 (Reddit post date)

Interview Type: Not Specified (Online interview)

Result: Selected (9 out of 20 students received offers)

Difficulty: Aptitude (tough for ML), Online Interview (very easy)

Rounds: 2 rounds

Topics Asked: Aptitude, Technical (Machine Learning), Coding, HR (job location, introduction), DBMS (database, normalization, types, Drop/Delete/Truncate difference, joins and their code), Coding (prime number, separate even/odd in array), C/Python/C++ differences, TCP layers.

Experience:

The entire process consisted of one aptitude round and one technical interview of 30 minutes.

Round 1: Aptitude Round
This round included a technical section with "very tough questions" on Machine Learning and a coding assessment.

Round 2: Online Interview
This was a "very easy" online interview conducted on Zoom with four panelists. Each person asked some questions.

• HR/Behavioral Questions: "Are you okay with any job location?", "Introduce yourself."
• DBMS Questions: "What is a database?", "Explain Normalisation and its types?", "Difference between drop, delete, truncate?", "Different types of joins and their code (write any one on notepad)".
• Coding Questions: "Write a code to detect prime number.", "Write a code to separate even and odd numbers from a given array of integers. Move all even elements to the left of the array and Odd numbers to the right." (The candidate explained two approaches: using an extra array and in-place without extra space).
• Other Technical Questions: "Difference between C, python and C++", "Explain me TCP layers."

Out of 20 students, 9 received offers with a package of 16.15 LPA (base package possibly 12 LPA).