I applied online. I interviewed at Thales (Bucarest, )
Interview
Description of a software engineer interview process at Thales:
The interview would include a phone screen, take-home coding assignment, onsite whiteboard algorithms and system design, and behavioural interviews with engineers and hiring managers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design a system to track and display flight information for an airline?
Explain how you would implement a binary search tree data structure.
What experience do you have working in an agile development environment?
Describe a time you had to debug a complex software issue. How did you approach it?
What principles and patterns do you follow when designing a new software system?
I attended the interview process as part of a campus drive at a college in Bengaluru. Multiple colleges came as part of the drive for multiple disciplines. This was after I cleared a virtual Online Assessment which was a coding round. We were supposed to have 2 rounds of interviews and 1 hr round, but due to a large number of candidates, only 1 interview and 1 hr was conducted. Only those who qualified for the technical interview went through to HR. I was rejected at HR round.
I had two rounds of interview , First one is HR screening and next round with manager and lead engineer for technical round. Both went okay and well informed on the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
C++ , Embedded Linux , and other discussion around problem solving.
It was very long and tiring and ill managed because nothing was done with the help of computers. Everything was done on papwe which is ironical for a tech company.
