Capgemini
Global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Medium
The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.
Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Software Engineer
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Behavioral
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easy
Describe your experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment. What ceremonies do you find most valuable?
#Agile
#Scrum
#Teamwork
Software Engineer
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Behavioral
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medium
Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with a client regarding a technical requirement. How did you handle it?
#Communication
#Conflict Resolution
#Client Management
Software Engineer
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Behavioral
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easy
Describe a situation where you had to learn a new technology quickly to deliver a project.
#Continuous Learning
#Agile
#Problem Solving
Software Engineer
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Behavioral
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medium
Tell me about a time you found a critical bug right before a production release.
#Quality Assurance
#Communication
#Crisis Management
Software Engineer
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Behavioral
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medium
How do you prioritize tasks when working on multiple deliverables with tight deadlines?
#Prioritization
#Agile
#Delivery
Software Engineer
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Behavioral
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medium
Explain a time when you had to explain a complex technical concept to a non-technical stakeholder.
#Stakeholder Management
#Soft Skills
Software Engineer
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Behavioral
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easy
Why do you want to join Capgemini and how does it align with your career goals?
#Motivation
#Career Planning
#Company Knowledge
Software Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Merge two sorted linked lists into one sorted linked list.
#Linked Lists
#Sorting
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a program to find the maximum subarray sum (Kadane's Algorithm).
#Arrays
#Dynamic Programming
Software Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Reverse a string in place without using any built-in reverse functions.
#Strings
#Two Pointers
Software Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a program to find the second largest element in an array without sorting it.
#Arrays
#Optimization
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Find the longest substring without repeating characters.
#Strings
#Sliding Window
#Hash Set
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Check if a given binary tree is a valid Binary Search Tree (BST).
#Trees
#DFS
#Recursion
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a program to group anagrams from an array of strings.
#Strings
#Hash Map
#Sorting
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Implement an LRU (Least Recently Used) Cache.
#Hash Map
#Doubly Linked List
#Design
Software Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Find the missing number in an array containing n distinct numbers taken from 0, 1, 2, ..., n.
#Math
#Bit Manipulation
#Arrays
Software Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Detect a cycle in a linked list.
#Linked Lists
#Two Pointers
Software Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a URL shortening service like Bitly.
#Scalability
#Hashing
#Database Design
Software Engineer
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System Design
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hard
How would you design a scalable microservices architecture for an e-commerce checkout system?
#Microservices
#Event-Driven Architecture
#Scalability
Software Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Explain how you would implement authentication and authorization in a microservices ecosystem using OAuth2 and JWT.
#OAuth2
#JWT
#API Gateway
Software Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a logging and monitoring strategy for a distributed enterprise application.
#Observability
#ELK Stack
#Microservices
Software Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a rate limiter for a public-facing API.
#API Gateway
#Algorithms
#Scalability
Software Engineer
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Technical
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easy
What is Dependency Injection and what are its benefits?
#Design Patterns
#Spring
#OOP
Software Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How does Garbage Collection work in Java?
#JVM
#Memory Management
#Garbage Collection
Software Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the difference between map() and flatMap() in Java 8 Streams.
#Java 8
#Streams API
#Functional Programming
Software Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How does Spring Boot auto-configuration work under the hood?
#Spring Boot
#Auto-configuration
#Java
Software Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the nth highest salary of an employee from an Employee table.
#SQL
#Window Functions
#Subqueries
Software Engineer
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Technical
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hard
What is the Saga design pattern and how does it manage distributed transactions in microservices?
#Distributed Systems
#Transactions
#Architecture
Software Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How do you handle exceptions globally in a Spring Boot REST API?
#Spring Boot
#Exception Handling
#REST
Software Engineer
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Technical
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medium
What are the differences between clustered and non-clustered indexes in a relational database?
#SQL
#Indexing
#Performance Optimization
Software Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the Bean lifecycle in the Spring framework.
#Spring Core
#Dependency Injection
Software Engineer
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Technical
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easy
What is the difference between == and .equals() in Java?
#Java Basics
#Memory Management
Software Engineer
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Technical
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medium
What is the CAP theorem and how does it apply to Cassandra vs MongoDB?
#NoSQL
#Distributed Systems
#CAP Theorem
Software Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How does the Virtual DOM work in React?
#React
#JavaScript
#Performance
Software Engineer
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Technical
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easy
Explain the difference between @Controller and @RestController in Spring.
#Spring Boot
#REST
#Java
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