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4 rounds | 8 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
I am a Electrical Engineering undergraduate . I have practiced approx 500 DSA problems from Leetcode and gfg. For core subjets like OS and DBMS i referred to gate smashers playlist and for OOPS i relied on handwritten notes easily available on linkedin.
Application story
Airtel visted our campus in offline mode. There was a offline coding test followed by a offline technical interview.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
Rejected because of not being able to answer question related to javascript as javascript was mentioned by me in my resume
Preparation
Duration: 9 months
Topics: DSA, OS, DBMS, OOPS (C++), Project tech stack
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Have good grasp of DSA solve atleast 500 problems 
Tip 2 : Be familiar with Tech stack mentioned in your project
Tip 3 : Give mock interview and for OA prep participate on coding contests

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

Tip 1 : Mention your projects 
Tip 2 : Do not write false things on your resume or topics you don't know about

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration90 minutes
Interview date25 Aug 2022
Coding problem2

1. Sort Elements By Frequency

Easy
15m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
CIS - Cyber InfrastructureOracleAmazon

You are given a list of a repeated set of integers. Your task for the problem is to return a list of the given elements in decreasing sorted order of their frequency of repetition in the given list with the element with the highest frequency of repetition first and so on.

Note :
If two numbers have the same frequency then keep the one that was present before the other in the original given list (array) first.
For Example :
Input:  arr[] = {2, 5, 2, 8, 5, 6, 8, 8}
Output: arr[] = {8, 8, 8, 2, 2, 5, 5, 6}

Explanation :
When you sort the array based on the decreasing order of the frequency of repetition of integers in the original array, 
you’ll find that the element ‘8’ is the integer with the most repeated values therefore it would be arranged first after which since both 2 and 5 have the same number of repeated 
values in the original array but since the 2 arrived first so we will first arrange 2 and then 5 in our resultant array, while would be the last element after sorting here.
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2. Merge Intervals

Moderate
20m average time
80% success
0/80
Asked in companies
FacebookInnovaccerSalesforce

You are given N number of intervals, where each interval contains two integers denoting the start time and the end time for the interval.

The task is to merge all the overlapping intervals and return the list of merged intervals sorted by increasing order of their start time.

Two intervals [A,B] and [C,D] are said to be overlapping with each other if there is at least one integer that is covered by both of them.

For example:

For the given 5 intervals - [1, 4], [3, 5], [6, 8], [10, 12], [8, 9].

Since intervals [1, 4] and [3, 5] overlap with each other, we will merge them into a single interval as [1, 5].

Similarly, [6, 8] and [8, 9] overlap, merge them into [6,9].

Interval [10, 12] does not overlap with any interval.

Final List after merging overlapping intervals: [1, 5], [6, 9], [10, 12].
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02
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration30 minutes
Interview date26 Mar 2023
Coding problem2

1. OOPS Questions

What is overriding and overloading?

What are compile time and run time exceptions?

2. Reverse Linked List

Moderate
15m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
IBMQuikrMicrosoft

Given a singly linked list of integers. Your task is to return the head of the reversed linked list.

For example:
The given linked list is 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4-> NULL. Then the reverse linked list is 4 -> 3 -> 2 -> 1 -> NULL and the head of the reversed linked list will be 4.
Follow Up :
Can you solve this problem in O(N) time and O(1) space complexity?
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03
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration35 minutes
Interview date26 Aug 2022
Coding problem3

1. Connect Ropes

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

Given a number of ropes say ‘N’ and an array of integers of size ‘N’ containing the length of ropes. Your task is to connect the ropes into one. The cost to connect two ropes is equal to the sum of their lengths. Find the minimum cost for connecting all the ropes.

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2. Longest Subarray Zero Sum

Moderate
18m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
AmazonOlaPayU

Given an array arr of length N consisting of positive and negative integers, return the length of the longest subarray whose sum is zero.

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3. Swap Nodes in Pairs

Moderate
40m average time
60% success
0/80
Asked in companies
WalmartOLX GroupAmazon

You are given a singly linked list of integers.

Your task is to swap every two adjacent nodes, and return the head of the modified, linked list.

For Example:

We have a linked list 1->2->3->4->5->6->7 and so on. You are supposed to swap pairs of a linked list like swap (1,2), (3,4), (5,6), and so on.
Note:
1. You may not modify the data in the list’s nodes; only nodes themselves may be changed. Because imagine a case where a node contains many fields, so there will be too much unnecessary swap.

2. If a pair of a node does not exist, then leave the node as it is.
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04
Round
Easy
Face to Face
Duration30 minutes
Interview date26 Aug 2022
Coding problem1

Project based

1. JS Question

What is Js event loop?

What is the difference between synchronous and asynchronous in JS?

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