🎯 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?