• Interview started with Core CS + Project discussion along with DSA.

• Asked OOPs concepts, especially Abstract Class with a real-life example other than the common car-vehicle example.

• Questions on C++ concepts like Unique Pointer, instance variables, stack vs heap memory, and examples of dynamically allocated memory.

• STL-related discussion on map vs unordered_map and their use cases.

• DBMS questions included indexing in databases, one SQL query, and Isolation Levels in transactions.

• In DSA round, interviewer asked to implement Binary Search and explain the approach and complexity.

• Later, discussion shifted towards projects, where interviewer asked about my contributions, tech stack, challenges faced, and overall implementation details.

Interviewer asked some general finance and technology-based conceptual questions. Questions included: What is Fidelity Investments , what are Mutual Funds, Brokerage Services, and Bonds. Discussion then moved towards AI-related topics like what Artificial Intelligence is and the role of NLP (Natural Language Processing) in understanding and processing human language.

Some questions were also asked on my projects, mainly focusing on project architecture, tech stack used, individual contributions, challenges faced during development, and how I solved them.