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3 rounds | 6 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
Accenture came for Campus placements in my college in September 2017. Since it was the first interview of my life, I was nervous. It was a group interview where 5 people were called together, 3 girls and 2 boys. I was called amongst all the toppers of my batch and I had scored barely 61% overall. So, more nervousness. However, the interview was great. I also had a little advantage because I had built an Android app and published it on Playstore, so I had some real world work sample to show. There were 2 interviewers, a guy and a girl, pretty young I can say. They greeted us and asked if we were nervous. We were then followed by clichéd interview questions. Like, hobbies, tell me about your project, why Accenture etc. Nothing extraordinary. However since my marks were low they asked me why. Overall, I was lucky I had got such relaxed interviewers because some of my friends told us a different tale altogether.
Application story
Its on campus so we do not have to apply outside/career website, they will directly conduct on college
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I was honest and bold and very strong in fundamentals and I also built an android app which impressed them very much
Preparation
Duration: 4 months
Topics: DSA, Coding, OS, CN, DBMS, System Design
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Strong in fundamentals
Tip 2 : Be strong in one language (I was very good in C++)
Tip 3 : Be Bold

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: 7 CGPA
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Make it professional, with no colors and design
Tip 2 : Only put skills, which you are confident in.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration60 minutes
Interview date8 Nov 2022
Coding problem3

Online test started at 12:15 pm.

It contained a puzzle along with some OS Questions and one coding problem.

1. Puzzle

In a certain code 'MISSIONS' is written as 'MSIISNOS'. How is 'ONLINE' written in that code?

Problem approach

Tip 1 : Be relax and manage your time accordingly
Tip 2 : Don't be stressed, it will be easy if you listen to the question well
Tip 3 : Answer all, as no negative questions

2. OS Questions

Easy
15m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
SalesforceOracleAccenture
  1. What is the difference between process and thread in an Operating System?
  2. How does virtual memory work, and why is it important?
  3. Describe the various process scheduling algorithms used in Operating Systems.
  4. Explain the difference between symmetric and asymmetric multiprocessing.
  5. What are deadlock and starvation in the context of Operating Systems, and how can they be prevented?
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3. Coin Game

02
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration60 minutes
Interview date9 Nov 2022
Coding problem1

1. Food Festival

Moderate
27m average time
55% success
0/80
Asked in company
Accenture

Ninja is taking part in a food festival and he decided to prepare ‘N’ dishes with the spiciness of ith dish being ‘DISHES[i]’.

He has an unlimited supply of ‘N’ types of ingredients and the spiciness of ith type of ingredient is ‘INGREDIENTS[i]’.

The spiciness of a dish is defined as the sum of the spiciness of ingredients used in it.

Find the minimum number of ingredients needed to make all the dishes.

It is always possible to make every dish with the required spiciness from the combination of given ingredients.

Note: In the Problem Statement 1-based indexing is used and in the code 0-based indexing is used.

Example:
Input: ‘N’= 4  ‘DISHES’ =[2, 4, 6, 8] ‘INGREDIENTS’=[1, 4, 5, 3]

Output: 7

First dish can be made using 2 ingredients of type 1. 
Second using 1 ingredient of type 2. 
Third using 2 ingredients of type 4. 
Fourth using 2 ingredients of type 2. 
So total 7 ingredients.
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03
Round
Hard
Online Coding Interview
Duration60 minutes
Interview date9 Nov 2022
Coding problem2

1. Generate all binary strings from pattern

Moderate
10m average time
90% success
0/80
Asked in companies
AmazonMicrosoftCoinbase

You're given a string 'STR' containing ‘0’, ‘1’ and ‘?’ special characters. Your task is to generate all the strings that are possible by replacing the special character ‘?’, with either of the characters ‘0’ or ‘1’.

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2. Clone Graph

Moderate
25m average time
75% success
0/80
Asked in companies
UberAppleFacebook

You are given a reference/address of a node in a connected undirected graph containing N nodes and M edges. You are supposed to return a clone of the given graph which is nothing but a deep copy. Each node in the graph contains an integer “data” and an array/list of its neighbours.

The structure of the graphNode class is as follows:

class graphNode 
{  
    public:
        int data;
        vector<graphNode*> neighbours;
}
Note :
1. Nodes are numbered from 1 to N.

2. Your solution will run on multiple test cases. If you are using global variables make sure to clear them.
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