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3 rounds | 5 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 1 month
Topics: JS fundamentals, Data Structure, Dynamic Programing, React, OOPS
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Focus on react hands-on coding and practice basic problems like fetch from API and render, sorting etc
Tip 2 : Focus on JS fundamentals likes closure, promise and Inheritance
Tip 3 : Practice for basic JS polyfills like promise.all, array reduce etc

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: na
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Add Atleast two major projects
Tip 2 : Brush up all skills you have mentioned on resume

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date10 Apr 2020
Coding problem2

The interviewer was well prepared and on time.
It was a good conversation

1. Balanced parentheses

Moderate
10m average time
90% success
0/80
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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

Iniitaly created a map like {"(":")","{":"}","[":}]"} etc
iterated over the supplied array and created a hash of each item.
iterated over the hash created to find if the brackets are balanced

Try solving now

2. Technical Question

Fetch from an api and render list Add a button to sort wrt to name

Problem approach

Used hooks,
Used axios to fetch the data
render the list in ul li using map.
Add a button name 'Sort' and attach an event listener to it.
OnClick of Sort button sort the array and update the variable which will re-render and sort the list.

02
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date18 Apr 2020
Coding problem2

Interviewer was on time and friendly

1. Javascript based technical Question

write polyfill for promise.reduce

Problem approach

iterated over the array and execute the callback on each item.
handle the iniial value like if iniital value is present it should be the first item of your array

2. Javascript and Node.js questions

JS fundamentals and problems related to closure, promise, inheritance

Problem approach

Asked to explain closure with an example where i explained by creating a timer.
Asked about classical inheriance where i explained by creating two classes and the second class inheriting using super();
Asked about callback and promise difference which i explained.

03
Round
Medium
Telephonic
Duration30 Minutes
Interview date20 Apr 2020
Coding problem1

He was the engineering manager and was on time
Mainly focused on optimizing the process

1. Technical Questions

how to optimise react code?
how to make your code ready to ship to prod, was asking about webpack configuration?

Problem approach

Tip 1:Mentioned code splitting, useMemo,useCallback, preventing re-render.
Tip 2:Learn about webpack configurations,loader and plugins, split chunks etc

Here's your problem of the day

Solving this problem will increase your chance to get selected in this company

Skill covered: Programming

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