Tech Mahindra Software Developer interview questions

Verbal reasoning - 20 questions (analogies, spelling). - Reading passage - (4-5) questions (very easy passage). - Quantitative aptitude - around 20 questions (based on simple mathematics). - Figure- based questions - (5-7). - Paragraph - 5 questions (logical puzzle). - English- 10 questions (sentence ordering, fill with correct word, preposition, pronoun). - Non verbal reasoning - 15 questions. ** First try to do the questions you have confidence in. ** Don't spend much time on questions that need a lot of calculation. ** You can switch between the sections, so choose the questions you do wisely. ** Try to attempt as many questions as possible as there is no negative marking. Once you submit your written exam. If you qualify, the screen displays. "congratulations" and if not then "sorry". Then I continued with the test. The second round was the essay writing. A random picture was displayed on the screen and we had to type an essay or story based on that picture. The word limit is 200 words or approx 1200 characters. ** First create an outline of what you want to write, then start typing. ** Try to write about the positive aspect of the picture. ** Just keep on typing until you get a prompt "1200 characters exceeded, anything you type next will be truncated." ** They evaluate the essay on the basis of correct sentence formation, introduction-body-conclusion, spelling. After the essay round, I was asked to wait for the results. After about an hour the results were announced. Only 61 qualified the essay round. Next was the technical interview round. After waiting for about 3 hours, I went for my technical interview at 6'o clock. The interview went like this, I- Give a brief introduction about yourself. Me- (I gave my introduction starting with my name, place I belong to, education, hobbies and interests, academic strengths and subjects of interest.) I- Okkay, you know data structures, name a few data structures. Me- (I mentioned a few data structures like linked list, stack, queue, etc.) I- What is stack? Me- (explained with details and a real life example) I- What is a linked list? Me- (explained with details and structure of linked list) I- Can you write the code for deletion of a node from linked list? Me- (took a sheet and started to write) Meanwhile, he asks me if it was okay for me to be posted in Chennai. I replied with a 'yes' and continued writing the code. I- He asked about doubly linked list. Me- I explained. He then asked about circular linked list. I explained. Then after a few minutes, he asked for the sheet. I was still writing the code but he asked to give the sheet to him. He went through the code. And as it was incomplete he asked me to just explain the logic of deletion of node. I tried to explain but I think he was not convinced by my explanation. Then he explained that to me. He then asked - "can we insert a node in a linked list only at front and end or anywhere?" I answered it correctly. I- He then asked the same question about arrays. Me- I answered.