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All questions irrelevant to the role.. For the role of a Project Manager they asked about API, architecture, on premise server, cloud, testing, automation, and then finally on to team management, scope management and communication. The interviewer was from a sales and marketing background turned delivery director old enough to retire in a few years. Another one of those wasteful statistics of an interview to fulfil a role internally to just formally justify that we tried and couldn't find a relevant match in the market.
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Senior Staff Engineer/Manager

Interviewed at Nagarro

3.9★
Apr 25, 2023

All questions irrelevant to the role.. For the role of a Project Manager they asked about API, architecture, on premise server, cloud, testing, automation, and then finally on to team management, scope management and communication. The interviewer was from a sales and marketing background turned delivery director old enough to retire in a few years. Another one of those wasteful statistics of an interview to fulfil a role internally to just formally justify that we tried and couldn't find a relevant match in the market.

Aptitude Test: ~20 minutes, no negative marking—focus on attempted answers and educated guessing works. Coding Round: (~75 minutes) included: Second maximum in array Prime number–based math puzzle Decoding count using Dynamic Programming Technical Interview 1 (45 min): ML/statistics fundamentals, SQL, cloud basics Conceptual scenarios using statistics (e.g., confidence parameter) Random Forest: 'random' rationale Classification vs regression A friendly, conversational style—resume/project-focused Technical Interview 2: NLP-specific focus (stemming vs lemmatization, vector representations, LSTM architecture) Deep learning fundamentals like backpropagation, gradient descent Statistics: skewed data comparison (mean, median, mode), repeat on Random Forest question HR Round: Formal, focused on feedback, relocation willingness, salary negotiation, and general fit question
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Senior Staff Engineer

Interviewed at Nagarro

3.9★
Sep 1, 2025

Aptitude Test: ~20 minutes, no negative marking—focus on attempted answers and educated guessing works. Coding Round: (~75 minutes) included: Second maximum in array Prime number–based math puzzle Decoding count using Dynamic Programming Technical Interview 1 (45 min): ML/statistics fundamentals, SQL, cloud basics Conceptual scenarios using statistics (e.g., confidence parameter) Random Forest: 'random' rationale Classification vs regression A friendly, conversational style—resume/project-focused Technical Interview 2: NLP-specific focus (stemming vs lemmatization, vector representations, LSTM architecture) Deep learning fundamentals like backpropagation, gradient descent Statistics: skewed data comparison (mean, median, mode), repeat on Random Forest question HR Round: Formal, focused on feedback, relocation willingness, salary negotiation, and general fit question

Interviewer: Have you had any conflicts at all? Question posed in a way that assumed that I likely wouldn't have any conflicts to talk about, it felt like a rhetorical question because the interviewer was looking for reasons to cut the interview short.
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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at LinkedIn

3.8★
Sep 14, 2023

Interviewer: Have you had any conflicts at all? Question posed in a way that assumed that I likely wouldn't have any conflicts to talk about, it felt like a rhetorical question because the interviewer was looking for reasons to cut the interview short.

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