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3 rounds | 6 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
My journey started when I was in class 12th and my teacher guided me to take part in the coding competitions that are hosted by codechef. After that I started participating in them and developed a habit of doing coding questions.
Application story
I applied to this company throw the on-campus opportunity as my college is a tier 1 college this company always visit my college for hire.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I was rejected because i was not able to explain all the concept with the correct accuracy.
Preparation
Duration: 3
Topics: Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Regarding DSA preparation, I have a theory. 20 percent of the questions will be asked in 80 percent of the interview and 80 percent of the questions will be asked in 20 percent of the interviews. In short, some questions have a very high chance of coming up during the interviews and some have very low chance. We should focus more on the questions that have more chance of coming up in the interview. You can find these questions on Striver SDE Sheet, InterviewBit, Leetcode 100 most liked, Leetcode 100 most important.

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

Tip 1: Make Sure that your resume is simple and also try to fit all the information on only one page.
Tip 2: Have at least 2 projects with the latest technologies, Github link of projects should be provided

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 mins
Interview date15 Dec 2022
Coding problem2

1. Longest Common Subsequence

Moderate
0/80
Asked in companies
ShareChatOptumSamsung

You have been given two Strings “STR1” and “STR2” of characters. Your task is to find the length of the longest common subsequence.

A String ‘a’ is a subsequence of a String ‘b’ if ‘a’ can be obtained from ‘b’ by deletion of several (possibly, zero or all) characters. A common subsequence of two Strings is a subsequence that is common to both Strings.

Problem approach

You have been given two Strings “STR1” and “STR2” of characters. Your task is to find the length of the longest common subsequence.

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2. Right View

Moderate
35m average time
65% success
0/80
Asked in companies
AmazonAdobeUber

You have been given a Binary Tree of integers.

Your task is to print the Right view of it.

The right view of a Binary Tree is a set of nodes visible when the tree is viewed from the Right side and the nodes are printed from top to bottom order.

Problem approach

The right view of a Binary Tree is a set of nodes visible when the tree is viewed from the Right side and the nodes are printed from top to bottom order.

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02
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 mins
Interview date15 Dec 2022
Coding problem2

1. Shortest Path in a Binary Matrix

Moderate
37m average time
65% success
0/80
Asked in companies
SprinklrCIS - Cyber InfrastructureMakeMyTrip

You have been given a binary matrix of size 'N' * 'M' where each element is either 0 or 1. You are also given a source and a destination cell, both of them lie within the matrix.

Your task is to find the length of the shortest path from the source cell to the destination cell only consisting of 1s. If there is no path from source to destination cell, return -1.

Note:
1. Coordinates of the cells are given in 0-based indexing.
2. You can move in 4 directions (Up, Down, Left, Right) from a cell.
3. The length of the path is the number of 1s lying in the path.
4. The source cell is always filled with 1.
For example -
1 0 1
1 1 1
1 1 1
For the given binary matrix and source cell(0,0) and destination cell(0,2). Few valid paths consisting of only 1s are

X 0 X     X 0 X 
X X X     X 1 X 
1 1 1     X X X 
The length of the shortest path is 5.
Problem approach

You have been given a binary matrix of size 'N' * 'M' where each element is either 0 or 1. You are also given a source and a destination cell, both of them lie within the matrix.

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2. Optimize The Code

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

1. Jump Game

Moderate
15m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
Deutsche BankGoldman SachsAmazon

You have been given an array 'ARR' of ‘N’ integers. You have to return the minimum number of jumps needed to reach the last index of the array i.e ‘N - 1’.


From index ‘i’, we can jump to an index ‘i + k’ such that 1<= ‘k’ <= ARR[i] .


'ARR[i]' represents the maximum distance you can jump from the current index.


If it is not possible to reach the last index, return -1.


Note:
Consider 0-based indexing.
Example:
Consider the array 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 
We can Jump from index 0 to index 1
Then we jump from index 1 to index 2
Then finally make a jump of 3 to reach index N-1

There is also another path where
We can Jump from index 0 to index 1
Then we jump from index 1 to index 3
Then finally make a jump of 2 to reach index N-1

So multiple paths may exist but we need to return the minimum number of jumps in a path to end which here is 3.
Problem approach

You have been given an array 'ARR' of ‘N’ integers. You have to find the minimum number of jumps needed to reach the last index of the array i.e ‘N - 1’ if at any index ‘i’ we can jump to an index ‘i + k’ such that 1<= ‘k’ <= ARR[i] i.e the element you are currently at represents the maximum distance you can jump from the current element.

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2. Circular Tour

Easy
35m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
AdobeMicrosoftExpedia Group

You have been given a circular path. There are N petrol pumps on this path that are numbered from 0 to N - 1 (Both inclusive). Each petrol pump has two values associated with it:

1)The amount of petrol that is available at this particular petrol pump.

2)The distance to reach the next petrol pump.

You are on a truck having an empty tank of infinite capacity. You can start the tour from any of the petrol pumps. Your task is to calculate the first petrol pump from where the truck will be able to complete the full circle or determine if it is impossible to do so.

You may assume that the truck will stop at every petrol pump and it will add the petrol from that pump to its tank. The truck will move one kilometre for each litre of petrol consumed.

Problem approach

Approach is to store the value of the capacity in some variable whenever the capacity becomes less than zero.
In this case You have to traverse the array only once as compared to previous method which traverses the each index twice.

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