Interview Questions

1. Introduce yourself.
2. What is the difference between smart work and hard work?
3. List some of you achievements?
4. What according to you was your greatest failure in life?
5. Where do you see yourself after 2 years?
6. Explain your personality in one word.
7. Tell me something about your family?
8. Why should we hire you?
9. Why PwC?
10. Tell me about a time when you worked effectively under pressure.
11. If you could be any animal, what would it be?
12. Suggest a method of joining two tables.
13. What do you know about big data?
14. What do you mean by “normalization”?
15. What is object oriented model?
16. Define RDBMS.
17. Why is DML provided?
18. Where do we generally create INDEX?
19. What opinion do your friends have about you?
20. When do you think you will complete and be able to join?(contextual question)
21. Do you have any questions for us?
22. What changes would you make at your college?
23. If you were to ask one of your professors to describe you, what would he or she say?
24. What do you think are your strengths and weaknesses?
25. What are the advantages to use stored procedures?
26. Do you think BCNF is better than 2NF & 3NF? Why?
27. Give me a SQL Query to find out the second largest company?
28. Discuss transparent DBMS?
29. Tell me about cloud computing and its applications?
30. What is the difference between exclusive lock and shared lock?
31. What interests you most about this position?
32. What is the difference between primary key, foreign key and candidate key?
33. How has your education prepared you for your career?
34. Describe your Final Year Project. What innovations did you bring into this project?
35. Do you prefer working in a team?
36. How would a lecturer describe you?
37. Do you keep your promises?
38. What motivates you?
39. Are you a good listener?
40. Have you ever wanted to quit something?
41. Tell me about your groups of friends?
42. Do you believe in talent or hard work?
43. Who would you get dinner with and why
44. What is your hobby?
45. Have you written your hobby just for the sake of mentioning it in your resume?
46. Apart from your photography (hobby), what else do you do in your free time?
47. Which genre of music (another hobby) do you like?
48. Which language songs do you listen to?
49. Who is your favorite singer?
50. What is your mother tongue?
51. Where do you live?
52. Where is your native place?
53. How often do you visit your native place in a year?
54. PwC requires team work. Do you like working in a team? Justify.
55. PwC requires leadership qualities. Do you have it? Justify.
56. PwC requires a business mind. Do you have it? Justify.
57. What is Bootstrap?
58. What are the advantages of Bootstrap over CSS?
59. What is AJAX?
60. What is the main advantage of AJAX?
61. What is Javascript?
62. Briefly describe about your summer training.
63. Which is your favorite subject in Computer Science?
64. What is the difference between DBMS and RDBMS?
65. Give few examples of DBMS.
66. Which is your second favorite subject?
67. Explain Computer Networking?
68. What is UI responsiveness?
69. Differentiate between the 2-tier and 3-tier architecture in computer science.
70. What is your coding status and efficiency?
71. Are you comfortable in travelling?
72. Which places have you visited?
73. Among all the places that you have visited in India, which is your favorite place?
74. Data model
75. Normalization
76. Define class and methods.
77. Query to find min, max, avg salary
78. Query to find max for a group of department numbers
79. Encapsulation and example
80. Code to add two matrix
81. He gave me c question to find the output
int main(){
for(;;)
print("hello");
}
82. Joins types in DBMS
83. Set operators in DBMS
84. Public static void main= meaning of each identifier
85. To display a list of files in the current folder using python
86. Define entity primary and foreign key.
87. Query to do a union of two table
88. Describe one situation where you worked completely by yourself? How did you
deal with the situation?
89. Have you worked with a stranger who you have never met? How did you deal with
it?
90. What is PL/SQL? How it is different from MySQL.
91. Any idea about SQL Injection?
92. What is your aim in life?
93. What are you apart from Technical?
94. static keyword in java
95. How to print top 3 salaries from employee table (SQL)
 96. Print 1-100 without using loop conditions.
97. Normalization forms(DBMS)
98. Print max and min elements from an array of integers
99. Print the second highest element from an array
100. Explain about your project based on android development.
101. What is the neural network(ML)?
102. Special features of python 3

Previous year interview experience/exam pattern

Round 1: This round has 3 parts of  MCQ questions
1. Basic aptitude: 30 minutes with 30 questions
2. SQL and DBMS: 15 minutes with 15 questions
3. Java and data structures in java: 15 minutes with 15 questions
Round 2: It was a virtual GD round and for many groups, the topic was the same that is
“virtual vs offline education and working”. One more topic that I came across was “How to
overcome COVID effects on GDP”
Round 3 (Coding and technical): I had the same interviewer as the GD round. The
interview was on the GLIDER platform. He asked me to introduce myself first.” Prepare
this nicely as they will ask questions from it”. Then technical interview.
Round 4: It was a leadership round. They asked a basic question such as 
1. Describe one situation where you worked completely by yourself? How did you deal
with the situation?
2. Have you worked with a stranger who you have never met? How did you deal with it?