Nielsen·Software Engineer

Nielsen Software Engineer interview experience

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NoidaPosted Aug 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an initial recruiter stage, my interviews lined up as a bar-raiser style online screen followed by a more technical round.

In the first one, I shared my screen and worked in a linked online IDE. I was given DSA problems to solve within a time limit, and then the conversation moved into database and systems topics.

The database part focused on efficiency and correctness—things like how to increase query efficiency and how concepts tied to ACID properties show up when you’re reasoning about data and transactions. A few networking and DBMS questions also came up during that same first round. The next round was more practical: I did live coding for a single hands-on problem and had to think through the

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