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NEC Corporation Graduate Software Engineer Interview Questions
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3 Rounds average
Average Typical difficulty
75% Positive experience

Candidate interview experiences

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Graduate Engineer Trainee

Engineering · more than a year ago

Entry Average Positive experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Take home Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical Coding Behavioral Technical

After an online test with 3 easy coding questions and 20 aptitude questions, there were 2 virtual technical interviews. The first interview (L0) covered preferred language, OOPS, and two coding problems. The second interview (L1) started with an intro, dove deep into projects, and then had a coding problem on notepad, followed by OS questions about processes, virtual address space, threads, and relating OS concepts to the project.

Confirmed questions2 questions
  • In L0 Technical interview, the interviewer asked basic questions about your preferred language, OOPS concepts, and then asked you to write code for 2 programs. Program 1: Convert the character to ascii code whose word length is odd in a sentence. input: He is bad boy output: ascii value of(bad boy). Program 2: Reverse the Singly Linked List.
  • In L1 Interview, we started with a brief introduction, then asked about the project in depth, then we moved to code for a problem on notepad. problem: Write the pseudocode code for finding the key(word) in a given string without using any data structure and inbuilt library. Asked more questions on the operating system about process, virtual address space, thread, process. Asked more OS questions by relating them to the project.
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Graduate Engineer Trainee

Engineering

Entry Average Positive experience No offer 1 round
Interview process
Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral

The interviewer was really nice and encouraging during the chat. We talked about my projects and I got asked a bunch of stuff about NLP, like what I knew about it. Then they asked me about what subjects and languages I liked and based on that, they hit me with some questions.

Confirmed questions4 questions
  • Could you tell me about your project and how NLP is involved?
  • What NLP models have you used in your project?
  • What's the distinction between a regular array and a NumPy array in Python?
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Graduate Engineer Trainee

Engineering

Entry Average Neutral experience Accept offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Technical screen Recruiter call Background check Offer
Interview formats
Technical Coding Behavioral

The interview process involved a written aptitude test, two technical rounds, and one HR round. It was pretty straightforward and moderately challenging, so with good knowledge of data structures and algorithms, it should be manageable.

Confirmed questions4 questions
  • What are some basic Python questions?
  • Can you answer some aptitude questions?
  • What are some moderately difficult questions on Data Structures?

NEC Corporation Graduate Software Engineer Interview Questions

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What's the distinction between a regular array and a NumPy array in Python?

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Can you explain the difference between switches and routers?

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Can you explain the difference between multiprocessing and multithreading?

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Formats, difficulty and experience

Across all 16 NEC Corporation interview reports.

Interview formats

Technical 44.4%
Coding 31.1%
Behavioral 20%
Group 2.2%
System Design 2.2%

Interview difficulty

Easy 6.2%
Average 93.8%
Difficult 0%

Candidate experience

Positive 75%
Negative 12.5%
Neutral 12.5%