I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Publicis Sapient (New York, NY) in Jan 2018
Interview
First-round Telephonic of 1 Hr, the second round of 3.5 hrs including Exercise of 1.5 hrs with 3 objectives, 1-hour code review, 1hr Behavioural questions.
Recruiters are really good and prompt and supportive, She arranged all interviews within a week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First Round - Working of Hashmap, ArrayList Linked List, Java Basic questions
Second Round - Coding Exercise - implement SecurityDataServices - Objective 1
1) SecurityServiceImpl - methods a)addSecurity(Security s) b)recordTick(long secID, Tick t), c)getPrice(Security s) d) getHistoricalPrice(Security S, TimeStamp asOfNow)
2)SecurityImpl - methods 1) getSecId() 2)getListTicks() 3)getCurrentPrice() 4)recordTick()
3) Tick Impl - methods 1) getPrice(), 2) getTimeStamp()
Implement all these classes in 1.5 hr, Use multithreading, I used ConcurrentHashMap and CopyonwriteArraylist use atomic operations like putifAbsent()
CodeReview questions - explain the flow of written code, explain java locks, write it using lambda expression, rewrite the code using locks
3rd round - behavioural questions - why do you want to join Sapient? extra activities apart from work? any technology that you follow?
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 Sep 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