Student 4's Optum Interview Experience

Interview Experience

Short round with personal questions, motivation, and location preferences. Called for technical round after 15 minutes.

Introduce yourself
Where do you live? Are you a hosteller or day scholar?
Why do you want to work in Optum?
Explain your healthcare-related project and what services it provides
What is the toughest decision you have made in your life?
How do you manage projects alongside academic subjects, assessments and assignments?
Have you planned and managed a team project? What role have you played?
Are you fine with working in any of these locations: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Gurugram? Which one do you prefer?

Comprehensive technical round covering programming languages, DSA, OOPS, probability, cloud computing, ML, and behavioral questions

Introduce yourself
Which programming language do you prefer?
Why do you prefer C++ over Java and Python for DSA?
Explain your projects in detail
Python: Difference between set and dictionary
Python: What are the datatypes in Python?
Python: What is the advantage of Python?
Difference between C++ and Java
Explain OOPS concepts in C++
Explain types of inheritance with examples
Explain Dynamic Memory allocation in C and C++
DSA Coding: Given an array of positive integers, reverse the array and remove duplicate elements (without using set or inbuilt functions)
Probability: A pair of dice is rolled. What is the probability of getting a sum of 8?
Probability: What is the probability of getting the same color card (red card) successively?
What is cloud computing? What is the need for cloud technology?
Mention well known cloud service providers
Explain multithreading concept (implemented in project)
How did you handle connections and use socket programming?
What is machine learning? What is supervised learning? What is linear regression?
How did you manage to handle conflicts among teammates while doing a project?
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Why did you join NSS?
Why are you interested in working in Optum?
Explain time and space complexity
DSA Coding: Given an array of integers, find all the integers missing from the array between the minimum and maximum element

Be polite and greet the interviewer properly
If you have healthcare-related projects, highlight them for Optum as they work in healthcare domain
Explain your time management skills - how you balance projects with academics
Be clear about your programming language preferences and justify your choices
For DSA questions, explain your approach and optimize for time complexity (O(N) is preferred)
Be prepared for probability and mathematics questions
Know cloud computing basics and major service providers
If you mention technologies like multithreading or socket programming, be ready for deep dive questions
Prepare basic ML concepts even if not your core area
Good questions to ask: job role specifics, tech stack used, how company handled Covid situation