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Manager
Manager Easy Positive experience Accept offer 6 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Take home Technical screen Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Other
It was a quick and organized interview process, finishing in about two weeks. The recruiters kept me in the loop about what was next and when. First week: Talked to the recruiter for 30 mins, then had a 1-hour interview with a coworker, and a 1-hour written test. Second week: Another 1-hour interview with a coworker, a 30-minute chat with someone who would report to me, and a final 30-minute interview with the Chief of Staff. Got the offer soon after the last one.
Confirmed questions1 question
- In what ways can you inspire leaders to adopt AI ethically and genuinely?
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UX/UI Designer
Entry Average Negative experience No offer 1 round
Interview process
Take home
Interview formats
Technical
I applied for a UX/UI Designer job in Jakarta and was asked to do a 60-minute aptitude test. I did the whole test, but then I was rejected right after. They said it was because there were too many applicants, not because of how I did on the test. It was annoying because they didn't even screen us first before making us do a test that took so long. It felt like they didn't care about my time or the applicant experience at all.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Were there logic tests that aren't relevant to the job you applied for?
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Intern
Intern Average Positive experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Background check Offer
Interview formats
Technical Coding Behavioral
NRI FinTech came to our campus and held 3 rounds of interviews. First, there was an online test, then a technical round, and finally an HR round. They started with a Pre-Placement Talk which had important info. The online test had MCQs in 5 sections: General Aptitude (13 Qs), RDBMS (5 Qs), Data Structure (5 Qs), and optional Java (15 Qs) & C++ (15 Qs). General Aptitude was easy, RDBMS needed a little knowledge, and Data Structures were very basic. C++ and Java were optional bonus sections. Out of 508 students, only 45 got to the next round, and I was one of them. The technical round was mostly about Java, as that's their main language. The interviewer checked my resume thoroughly. They started with C questions on file handling, structures, and memory allocation. Then they moved to Java, asking about collections, operator overloading/overriding, data hiding, platform independence, compilation phases, and JDBC. Questions about the SDLC, Dynamic Programming, SQL (counting employees older than 25), Normalization, and pipe-lining were also asked. Around 30 out of 45 students passed this round, and I did too. After that was the HR round.
Confirmed questions8 questions
- Can you tell me how to read data from a file in C?
- What parameters does the fopen() function take?
- What is the return type for fclose()?
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Solution Architect
Mid Average Negative experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Phone screen
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral
I was contacted by a recruitment agency for a Solution Architect position at NRI. They arranged two interviews: one technical and one cultural. Neither interview was particularly challenging, but the interviewers lacked professionalism. In the first tech interview, there were no proper introductions, and during the second call, the interviewer seemed to be dozing off. Applying from overseas is not recommended as they were not serious about the role and it turned out to be a waste of time. Ultimately, I was informed that they were no longer hiring from overseas.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- The technical questions were generic and random.
- There were no serious or focused questions that required problem-solving.
Nomura Research Institute Interview Questions
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“How do you derive the time complexity of the Sieve of Eratosthenes?”
Read reports →“What are the stages involved in the compilation of Java code?”
Read reports →“Using SQL, how would you find the count of employees whose age is greater than 25, given an employee table with columns: age, name, id, gender?”
Read reports →“Is it possible to check if the number 3 is not together?”
Read reports →“What's the difference between an outer join and an inner join?”
Read report →“Can you tell me how to read data from a file in C?”
Read report →“Can you explain the difference between StatefulWidget and StatelessWidget in Flutter? Also, give an example for when each would be appropriate to use.”
Read report →“Imagine you have a stream of integers coming in. How would you design a data structure to efficiently find the median after each number is inserted, aiming for O(1) time complexity for median retrieval?”
Read report →“Could you translate a Japanese article into Korean and then explain it out loud?”
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