Gemalto Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Gemalto.
Gemalto
Software Engineer
Mid Average Positive experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Take home Technical screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Coding Technical Other
First, I had a phone interview with HR where they asked basic questions about why I'm looking to change jobs and my salary expectations. After that, HR called back to set up the in-person interview and sent over a programming task. The task was to write a small program to find pairs of two integers in an unsorted array that sum up to a given S. Then, I had the face-to-face interview which included a 30-minute paper test with 3 programming questions and 2 database questions. The programming questions were: check given string is Palindrome, factorial of 2, and grey white triangle.
Confirmed questions6 questions
- HR asked some basic questions.
- The HR person inquired about my motivation for seeking a new role and my salary expectations.
- I was asked to code a solution for finding pairs of integers in an array that sum to a specific value.
Gemalto
Software Engineer
Entry Average Positive experience Accept offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Technical screen Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical Coding Technical
I applied through college and interviewed at Gemalto in Noida in March 2017. The first round was a pen and paper test with 19 aptitude and 31 technical objective questions, which was easy. Out of 300+ applicants, only 50 were shortlisted for the second round, which was a technical interview on the same day. They asked me to 'tell me about yourself', gave me 2-3 coding questions, one puzzle, and asked me to write code for it. They also asked about Unix commands, DBMS queries, and HTML tags. Then they asked which field I was comfortable with and pushed me towards testing. I was asked if I was comfortable with testing. I qualified for this interview, and out of the 50, only 30 were shortlisted. The third round was another technical interview in Gemalto Noida, where they asked Java-related questions. After that, they conducted another technical interview, stating it was with a different department, testing. They asked a puzzle, a substring program, and DBMS questions. After this technical interview, they said I was not selected. My technical interviews went well, but I'm not sure what they were looking for.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you check if a string is a palindrome?
Gemalto
Software Engineer
Senior Average Negative experience No offer 1 round
Interview process
Take home
Interview formats
Coding
I got an email with a programming challenge to complete and send back within a specific time frame. I wasn't really sure what to expect before getting the challenge. They didn't specify any programming languages, so I got to pick one myself. I ended up submitting a solution that was clean, ran fast, worked correctly, and followed SOLID principles, all within the given time. Unfortunately, I was rejected. I asked for feedback but didn't hear back.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Create a fast program to read input from the console and output results, making sure to identify any invalid inputs.
Gemalto Software Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Gemalto interview reports.
“Can you print a map with 5 colors such that no adjacent areas share the same color?”
Read reports →“Write a LINQ query to find all employees whose last name starts with 'S'.”
Read reports →“If a square's side length increases by 40%, how do you calculate the new area?”
Read reports →“Write code to count sentences, words, and characters by reading from a text file.”
Read reports →“Write a SQL query to find employees in a company who are not assigned an office.”
Read report →“Could you provide a code snippet that assigns 5 colors to countries on a world map such that no adjacent countries share the same color?”
Read report →“Can you explain the difference between Java on a PC and Java on a mobile device?”
Read report →“Can you show me how to swap two variables without using a third variable?”
Read report →“What Data Structure would you use for designing the contacts on a mobile phone?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
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