I am so elated and excited to share my DBS One of the Asia’s biggest banks interview and other round experience.

I got shortlisted on the basis of a online Hacker rank based contest where I was given 15 MCQs which are based on Linux commands, servers, java, OOP and one aptitude question, along with 3 Coding questions, I was so confident that I have solved all the problems and MCQs with correct answers, I got a call after a week and they informed me to come by 7: 30 AM IST on the day of interview, with the prerequisites as they have mentioned and I have attended the DBS facility Hyderabad, first we are asked to register for the Hack 2 Hire hackathon, they took a pic to generate an hard copy and attached that with the registration forms , we were given an ID card filled with name and table number regarding the team we belong.

After introducing the company, it’s CEO (Alex) and the day’s Agenda, we are into 3 problem statements and two of them are

1.Social Scoring : Which is most important for any bank, we decide whether a person is eligible for a loan or not based on his social behavior like if he pays more traffic challans, he is given negative score if he pays the EMIs on time, he is given a positive score it all depends on few factors and their weight-age all these will be controlled by the manager, Based upon his final score, An email will be sent to the customer, Regarding loan confirmation.

2.Event Planning : People having the similar interest were found and it let them plan an event it lets people Hangout with new buddies who are having similar or equally likely thoughts and habits at least three members are needed to conform an event.

Based on the given constraints and screens we are asked to develop applications(Web/Android/ Windows) they said they will be giving prizes for top three teams, they are Apple I pad(worth 40 k) , Bluetooth Headphones(worth 10k), Amazon Echo(worth 4k) one for all the team members.

Hackathon started at 10 :00 AM IST lasted till 3:00 PM IST, I belong to team 23 we started with a zeal but end up with no UI as our team members faced a problem, they didn’t inform us the problem till the last half an hour but we had fun, finally 7 teams got selected and our team is not there , we are happy that we have fun, three teams got awarded, meanwhile they gave us Bags with T-shirts.

We lost hope and thought the teams which got selected will only enter the finals but we are informed later that along with team score we are given individual score, based on our planning, leadership, managerial skills. Our mentor was so friendly that he told us we will be having further rounds so we are very much happy, 5 out of 6 members of our team got selected for the HR + TR round and we are asked to wait for a while.

The final round is so smooth and cool after entering the cabin I wished the sir and mam sitting over there, But with a full duplex communication they preceded wishing me by saying Hi immediately after my entrance, They both were so nice, Sir first asked me about Master Minds blog that he had read just before, he asked me how did you get this Idea I told him that I love playing puzzle and low graphic games unlike Heavy graphic games, while surfing the UBUNTU store I found this game, Later he asked me to explain the game to mam I told that I played the game on the first day I didn’t get the game, later on I found it much Interesting, I thought the UI of the game is not that well so I started developing it in python and took around a week to complete, she asked me how is the applaud, I told her mam all friends appreciated me but as I didn’t keep that in any store it haven’t met people attention, refer master minds.

Later sir asked me about the Machine learning after looking at my “Forest Wood Detection” project he asked me how do you design a model that detects numbers if they are written irregularly I then said them that I will be training the machine with how do people write numbers in various ways covering all possible ways, he then asked me how do you do train machines, I told him that I have used static Machine learning algorithms as of now, If we want to do dynamic ones, we can use keros, kerberos of python, He then asked me about Java and python, I told hime about the Hackerrank he then asked me my ranks, I replied by telling sir its around 50,000 in Python, around 200000 in Problem Solving, He cheerished at me, I also told him that I am teaching python online and java offline and encouraging self learning, He then asked me what portion did you cover in java till now, I replied that taking input from user in various ways, Primitive types , Wrapper classes, Arrays and strings of java He then asked me to explain the immutability of strings with an example of the mam name, I explained them with a marker about the language design constraints and the objects behind strings, I told him we can use String Buffer and String Builder classes to use strings as mutable objects, He then asked me the difference between them, I told about the multi threading synchronization for the former and single threading for the latter, He got impressed.

Mam then asked about the team work today I told my contribution and the problem faced by us, She asked me the experience how did you feel to work with strangers , I then told that It was very nice day I love to work with new people, I am just an extrovert, at the end, I have seen smiley faces of the both, I told them thanks for the opportunity even they thanked me.

Finally I was given a confirmation form and got to know that around 60 people out of 200 were selected from all over India, out of 5000 members, 200 got shortlisted for the hackathon. I am so Happy to share this experience.