This is a part of my job interviews series.

Background

• Years of Experience: 4 years
• Relevant Python experience: 1.5 years
• Year: February 2016
• Campus: Dairy circle, Bengaluru (now closed permanently)
• Position: Python developer
• Company: Tech Mahindra

Interview discussions

I have mentioned the main questions and the ladder questions around that question under it.

First round

1. What is Class?
   • Entities of an application under development is called objects.
   • In Python, every entity is an object.
   • Class defines objects.
   • Method defines the behaviour of the class.
2. What is inheritance?
   • Inheritance is the property of OOP where
   • A class extends/inherits the methods and properties of another base class
   • It maintains the hierarchy
   • Increases reusability
3. Regex to find an IP address
4. Difference between extend and append?
5. What is Abstract class?
   • Which keeps the underlying complexities of the class away from class
6. What is dictionary comprehension
   • Like list comprehension for Dictionaries
7. What is a constructor?
   • Which constructs something
   • The __init__ in a class
8. What is a Generator?
   • It generates in the runtime on every loop call
9. Difference between range and xrange?
10. range is a list
11. xrange is a generator
12. xrange is range in Python 3

Second round onwards

Did not qualify. I was weak in the OOPs concepts.

Verdict

Rejected

My opinion

• I was not fully prepared, as it was near to my Accenture office I went.
• This was my first Python interview. I want to check how in the market Python questions are being asked.
• I got to know I have a lot to study. I was self-studying Python.

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