I applied in-person. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Publicis Sapient (Bengaluru) in July 2020
Interview
The interview process was good for me. HR and interviewers were professional.
I have been preparing for a Java full-stack developer interview for a year now. So, my concepts in data structures, core Java were good. I had also practiced some common coding questions earlier. When the interviewer asked me to write a small code on the spot, I could write it confidently.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions:
a. What is Eden and survivor space in a heap?
b. How to analyze Java memory issues?
c. Java inner classes and functions
d. Can you list serialization methods?
e. Some coding questions like guessing the output
f. Describe a time when you felt stressed or overwhelmed. How did you handle it?
g. How do you determine what amount of time is reasonable for a task?
h. Code writing for a situation
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Publicis Sapient (Bangalore Rural) in Dec 2024
Interview
It was okayish, interviewer was very knowledgable person , he asked scenario based questions, and asked us to devlop some ticket booking system in synchronizatio. Way, behavirial design patterns, micro services design pattern, test cases
I applied online. I interviewed at Publicis Sapient (Gurgaon, Haryana) in Sept 2024
Interview
The coordinator asked me to show the entire room on video call before starting the interview which was quite odd. They have interview process of 2 hours which is another odd thing. The company can divide the interviews into two rounds of 1 hour instead of a 2 hour interview. The interviewer asked me open the IDE in my system to write the program.
Interview questions [11]
Question 1
Coding question on finding the count of longest consecutive numbers in an array and optimize it using collection.
Have you checked how the system in allocating memory in your project and how will troubleshoot in case of out of memory error in production environment?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Publicis Sapient in Aug 2024
Interview
First round was online test. Second round was technical interview of 2 hours. The guy finished the interview in 10 minutes. He stopped me in the middle of my introduction and started asking questions quickly. Not giving me enough time to answer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral design pattern, worst case time complexity of HashMap insertion