Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 2 giorni. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Principal Financial Group (Poona) nel mese di giu 2019
Colloquio
I applied through elitmus
Round 1: elitmus test
The test is conducted throughout the year multiple times in different locations. You can give according to your convience.
It has three parts verbal, reasoning and quantitative ability. In order to be shortlisted for Principal one needs a overall of 90 percentile with reasoning/quants also above 90 percentile.
Round 2: interview
You are called for a face to face interview in their Pune office in Cybercity. It itself has 3 rounds, each being a knock out round. First round is technical interview followed by HR and Managerial.
They start with a presentation and then you are given a sheet with the question 'where do you see yourself in 5 years?'(fill that carefully), and you are later called for interview one by one. There are about 5 panels so it's fast. Each interview lasting 15 min. After the interview you are asked to wait for 15 min for your result.
I didn't clear the technical interview so I had to leave. Even thought it was a technical interview not many technical questions were asked. People from both technical and non technical fields can take advantage of that. My interview was more on the technical side than others. It depends on your interviewer. Some were asked puzzles and reasoning questions too.
The interview experience was good, but wished they had provided some kind of feedback so we'd know where we lacked and why we were rejected.
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Principal Financial Group (Poona)
Colloquio
Got a call from Hr for screening and after a week had 1st technical round scheduled which was for around 1.5hrs and after a week got confirmation on having the round clear and then one manager-technical round was there for an hour. Finally after clearing both last hr round was schuled with offer discussion.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Principal Financial Group nel mese di set 2025
Colloquio
First round was a chat with HR, no questions, just giving me details and letting me know I was selected for an interview and scheduling it.
The second round took place on Teams, 3 different developers from different teams. The interview was 2 hours long, first half was behavioral questions and the second hour was a live coding exam.
Live coding exam takes place on your PC, sharing your screen on Teams on your IDE of choice. They emailed me JSON files with 3 questions. I made the mistake of not noticing the questions on the email and thought they would communicate them verbally. Because of this, I misunderstood the question and they didn't correct me or didn't know to correct me. I recommend not sharing your screen until after you've received the email and pulled in the data and questions. I also wasn't a fan of doing this through my own IDE, because it means I had to spend time setting up a test environment and getting it to work with the JSON, something I wasn't familiar with. Personally would have preferred leetcode or something similar to simplify the process. The questions themselves weren't inherently super difficult.
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Domanda 1
The technical questions were structured something like this:
Given two JSON files. A list of objects containing data and a list of objects that contains data and objects containing data.
Given conditions, such as person's name, find out what company they work for, which can be found be performing lookups.
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Principal Financial Group
Colloquio
2 technical - OOPs fundamentals, sql, no dsa, list/string manipulation questions, previous projects in depth knowledge is must. Then there will be 1 HR round where basic knowlede of company will be asked, why you wanna switch, any situational questions etc.