I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Nokia (Chennai) in Oct 2020
Interview
The process was held in the college as campus placement for a day. There were one online test + an Technical interview and finally a informal HR telephonic interview.
The online test was comprising of CS fundamentals and aptitude (Quantitative, Logical). It was in easy to moderate level with basic CS Core subjects and other normal aptitude questions. Out of totally 200 odd students, 26 were shortlisted for next round.
The interview was an 1:30hrs technical interview round. The interviewer was so cool and made the interview look easy and comfortable. Asked about the OOPS basics, Core CS questions based on favourite subjects, then 3 easy to moderate level coding questions. And finally about the resume and the questions related to whatever there in the resume. So be sure about what to put in the resume. For interview, be as relaxed as possible and don't lie about what you know. Even I have told the interviewer that I don't know for some topics he asked and he focused on what are all the areas I'm comfortable.
And out of them 5 students were selected from interview round and I'm one of them.
And informal telephonic call was made from HR to ask about the native etc.
So overall it's a very good interview experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A Coding question on replacing specified set of strings (Say 'X') in a given string input (Say 'Str') where we need to identify each instance of X in Str and replace with minimal time.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Nokia
Interview
One interview discussing technical skills such as python, java, and linux. Questions focused on object oriented programming, numpy and linux networking concepts. Two interviewers were also software developers and were friendly
Reached out for interview two weeks after applying, technical round focused on data structures and programming in C and follow ups, resume based behavioral questions asking about projects/experience, tell me about yourself questions, simple and fast process
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Nokia (Jaipur, Rajasthan) in May 2025
Interview
2 Rounds of Interviews
Technical Interview: some coding problems in your preferred language and some questions on CS fundamentals
Managerial Interview: Asked about willingness to join, couple of easy logical questions, some CS questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design test cases for a functions that counts number of times a substring appears in a string
Software Engineer Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Nokia with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer Intern roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 8 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Nokia overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Nokia as a Software Engineer Intern according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 20%
Personality test: 10%
Presentation: 10%
Group panel interview: 10%
Background check: 10%
Phone interview: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 10%
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