🎯 My Deutsche Bank Graduate Analyst Interview Experience 🚀

Deutsche Bank visited our college by the end of July for the Graduate Analyst Role. The hiring procedure was quite straightforward, consisting of:

• Online Coding Round
• Technical Interview-1
• Technical Interview-2
• Pro-Fit/Managerial Round
• HR Round

🖥️ Online Coding Round (27 July’23)

This round consisted of 3 questions—each from Easy, Medium & Hard categories—to be solved in 90 minutes.

• Easy Level Question → Simple array manipulation.
• Medium Level Question → Based on Maths, took me around 10-15 min to solve.
• Hard Level Question → Related to Strings, the toughest one, and nobody in our college could fully solve it. I passed 5/12 test cases.

Platform: HackerEarth

For this round, my experience was not great as the test cases were weak, allowing even brute-force solutions to pass for the Medium-level question. However, a few days later, I received an interview call on 3rd August 2023.

🔹 Technical Round-1

This round started at 11:00 AM and lasted around 2 hours. It was a detailed and rigorous discussion, which helped me a lot in the next rounds.

🔍 Questions Asked:

• Resume-based project discussion (30-40 min)
• Reverse a Linked List (Both recursion & pointer approach)
• Minimum Number of Platforms (Leetcode question)
• Sum of Subarray (Kadane’s Algorithm for +/- elements)
• ACID properties and basic DML, DCL, DDL commands
• Query to print alternate rows in a table
• SQL vs NoSQL
• Normalization
• OOPs concepts and subdivisions
• Apply OOPs to your main project
• Problems in Inheritance (Diamond Problem)
• K-greatest elements using Priority Queue

🔹 Technical Round-2

Started at 2:30 PM, this round was short and lasted 15-20 minutes. Since my Round-1 feedback was strong, the interviewer focused on a few core topics.

🔍 Questions Asked:

• Resume-based project discussion
• Find count of subsequences in an array with product < k (Recursion + DP)
• Basic DFS, BFS question on Graphs (similar to Island Problem on Leetcode)
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for Car Parking Tracker

The panel was impressed by my Competitive Programming profile, which helped me answer questions quickly.

❓ Questions I Asked Them:

• What were your expectations when you joined DB, and were they fulfilled?
• Your work experience, number of projects, and tech stack?
• Challenges you faced and how you overcame them?

🔹 Pro-Fit/Managerial Round

Immediately after Round-2, this round started at 3:00 PM and lasted 30-35 minutes. It tested my communication skills, confidence, and personality.

🔍 Topics Discussed:

• Resume-based project discussion
• Challenges faced in projects & how I overcame them
• Family background
• Interests and hobbies & how I work on them
• How do I stay motivated for the long run?
• Plans for higher studies & sponsorship requirements?

🔹 HR Round

At 6:00 PM, I had the final HR Round, which lasted 20-30 minutes.

🔍 Questions Asked:

• Introduce yourself & family background
• What does Deutsche Bank do?
• Why Deutsche Bank?
• You and a friend from another company are approaching the same client. How will you handle it without spoiling your friendship?
• Your strengths and weaknesses?
• Any plans for further studies?

🎉 Verdict: SELECTED!

Results were announced at 8:30 PM, making it a memorable night!

Best of luck to all future aspirants! 🍀🚀