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3 rounds | 6 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
I started my journey in coding from second year after being motivated from my seniors. I initially started my journey by learning basic programming languages. Later, I started giving contests on code forces and solving questions on it. I kept trying to be consistent in doing so. After 2-3 months I was able to solve some questions on code forces. Then in my third year, I studied core subjects like OS, DBMS, OOPS and CN in depth. In this manner, I was well prepared before the placement season.
Application story
This company visited to my campus the placement .
Why selected/rejected for the role?
i was rejected because i was not able to maintain the timing of the questions to be answer i should be more fast.
Preparation
Duration: 4 months
Topics: Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Practice coding from Leetcode, Interview bit, at least 100 questions 
Tip 2 : Practice any one automation framework includes design patterns

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

Tip 1 : Restrict your resume to 1 page and write your practical work only
Tip 2 : Mention top topics like Selenium, Rest Assured Automation, Language used Java etc

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date15 Dec 2022
Coding problem2

1. Min Jumps

Easy
15m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
AckoHSBCIBM

You live in a Ninja town which is in the form of a N * M grid. In this town, people travel from one place to another by jumping over the buildings which are present in each cell of the grid. It is Christmas eve, and Santa wants to give gifts and chocolates to the kids who live in the building which is present at the cell (N - 1, M - 1). Initially, Santa is present on cell (0, 0). Since Santa is in a hurry, help him find a path from starting point to the endpoint with the least amount of time.

The Santa may go only from one building to any of its adjacent buildings which is present either to the right or to the bottom or bottom right cell i.e. if the current position is (x, y), he may go to (x + 1, y + 1) or (x + 1, y) or (x, y + 1) given that the new coordinates are in the grid. The time taken to reach from one building to another is equal to the absolute difference between the heights of buildings.

Note:

1. The heights of the buildings are positive.
2. Santa starts from the cell (0, 0) and he has to reach the building (N - 1, M - 1).
3. Santa cannot leave the grid at any point of time.
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Easy
15m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
AmazonFactSetNagarro Software

You have been given a matrix of ‘N’ rows and ‘M’ columns filled up with integers where every row is sorted in non-decreasing order. Your task is to return all the elements of the given matrix in non-decreasing order.

Problem approach

The basic idea of this approach is to store the elements of the matrix in an array/list and then sort the elements. Steps are as follows:

1. Create an auxiliary array/list of N*M length.

2. Traverse the matrix and insert all the elements in that array/list.

3. Sort that list/array in non-decreasing order.

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02
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date15 Dec 2022
Coding problem2

1. Balanced parentheses

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

Given an integer ‘N’ representing the number of pairs of parentheses, Find all the possible combinations of balanced parentheses with the given number of pairs of parentheses.

Note :

Conditions for valid parentheses:
1. All open brackets must be closed by the closing brackets.

2. Open brackets must be closed in the correct order.

For Example :

()()()() is a valid parentheses.
)()()( is not a valid parentheses.
Problem approach

First, think out loud and always discuss the approach with the interviewer I solved using a stack

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2. Compress the String

Moderate
25m average time
60% success
0/80
Asked in companies
MathworksHSBCPayPal

Ninja has been given a program to do basic string compression. For a character that is consecutively repeated more than once, he needs to replace the consecutive duplicate occurrences with the count of repetitions.

Example:

If a string has 'x' repeated 5 times, replace this "xxxxx" with "x5".

The string is compressed only when the repeated character count is more than 1.

Note :

The consecutive count of every character in the input string is less than or equal to 9.
Problem approach

I used string inbuilt function quite easy

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03
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date15 Dec 2022
Coding problem2

1. Minimum coins

Moderate
30m average time
70% success
0/80
Asked in companies
DelhiveryWalmartOla

Bob went to his favourite bakery to buy some pastries. After picking up his favourite pastries his total bill was P cents. Bob lives in Berland where all the money is in the form of coins with denominations {1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1000}.

Bob is not very good at maths and thinks fewer coins mean less money and he will be happy if he gives minimum number of coins to the shopkeeper. Help Bob to find the minimum number of coins that sums to P cents (assume that Bob has an infinite number of coins of all denominations).

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2. Trapping Rain Water

Moderate
15m average time
80% success
0/80
Asked in companies
HCL TechnologiesCiti BankAtlassian

You have been given a long type array/list 'arr’ of size 'n’.


It represents an elevation map wherein 'arr[i]’ denotes the elevation of the 'ith' bar.



Note :
The width of each bar is the same and is equal to 1.
Example:
Input: ‘n’ = 6, ‘arr’ = [3, 0, 0, 2, 0, 4].

Output: 10

Explanation: Refer to the image for better comprehension:

Alt Text

Note :
You don't need to print anything. It has already been taken care of. Just implement the given function.
Problem approach

I used two array to store next greater element and nest smaller element and subtractedit interviewer was impressed

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