Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at CEI with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 44.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at CEI overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at CEI as a Software Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
One on one interview: 40%
Presentation: 20%
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at CEI (Chennai) in Aug 2024
Interview
There was 2 Technical Rounds and a HR round.
1st Technical round was about OOPS,OS,Networking and basic problem solving and also about domain knowledge like hosting,servers,software development life cycle.
The 2nd technical round was about real time problem solving where its applied data structures and algorithms and also about Databases and your projects
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Which development process would you prefer and why?
In terms of development, agile or waterfall model
The interview process is good and intresting the hr is friendly and they asked more technical questions and the interview process was good and take more time to interview the candidate whis was the negative drawback
round 1 written test contain aptitude, technical questions such as sql, operating systems and program questions total 40 questions
round 2 technical discussion technical questions are asked
round 3 hr round
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at CEI (Chennai) in Jul 2025
Interview
The selection process includes five rounds: Aptitude and core subjects, 7 DSA problems, two technical interviews focusing on skills and projects, and an HR interview to assess personality, communication, and cultural fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Valid Palindrome
2. Anagram
3. Game of Life
4. Longest common subsequence
5. Coin change