📚 Interview Experience at Entrata

📌 Details

• Company: Entrata

• Role: Software Engineer

• Eligibility Criteria:

  • 10th & 12th: 60% and above
  • CGPA: 7.5+
  • No active backlogs

• Location: Koregaon Park, Pune

• Rounds: 3 (OA + 1 Technical Round + 1 Techno-Managerial Round)

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🖥 Online Assessment Round

• MCQs on CS fundamentals

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📝 Interview Rounds

✅ 1st Round – Technical Interview

Time : 1 Hour

This round focused on fundamentals, your projects, tech stack mentioned in the resume, and problem-solving.

Questions included:

1. Explain the four pillars of OOP.
2. Write code to implement encapsulation.
3. How are LLMs different from GenAI?
4. Explain LLM parameters (temperature, etc.).
5. Difference between SQL and NoSQL databases with examples and how you would choose a database based on application requirements.
6. How would you handle increasing load on your application?
7. What are React components?
8. Explain SQL joins.
9. DSA question based on strings (easy).
10. Discussion on tech stack mentioned in your resume.
11. Cloud technologies you have worked on.
12. Explain abstract classes.
13. Why do we need the package.json file?
14. They visited the portfolio website I had mentioned in my resume and appreciated the work and presentation.

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✅ 2nd Round – Technical + Problem Solving

Time : 20-25 minutes

This round focused on deeper technical concepts, design, and problem-solving.

Questions included:

1. How is struct different from class?
2. Design Tic Tac Toe. Explain the logic, moving from brute force to optimized solutions.
3. Explain overloading and overriding with an example.
4. Discussion on projects.
5. Any question – I asked about the AI tools the company is using to improve employee productivity.

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📊 Shortlisting Stats

• 41 students shortlisted from the Online Assessment
• ~15 students cleared the Technical Round
• 6 students selected in the final round (2 girls + 4 boys)
• “The results were announced on the same day, and I was selected.”

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✅ Tips for Preparation

• Revise all topics mentioned in your resume thoroughly.
• Keep your GitHub profile updated.
• Brush up on OOP concepts and their implementations.

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Final Thoughts

The interview was conducted offline at Entrata’s office. The atmosphere at the office was very positive and supportive. Everyone was helpful and encouraging throughout the process, which made the experience comfortable and enjoyable.