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SDE - Intern

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2 rounds | 5 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 3 MONTHS
Topics: Data Structures and Algorithms, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Java, Trees and graphs, Arrays, Backtracking, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Greedy Algorithms, Dynamic Programming.
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Regular coding practice on GFG, Leetcode and coding ninjas type platforms( Don't be nervous if you wont get in one try.Try until you get)
Tip 2 : Be enough confident, Do not loose hope,Maintain atleast 2 projects in your resume.
Tip 3 : Even if you are stuck in the problem, just give a try. The interviewer will help you definitely for sure.

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: ABOVE 6.5 CGPA
Resume Tip
Resume tip

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

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Test
Duration90 MINUTES
Interview date3 Aug 2020
Coding problem2

1. Total unique paths

Moderate
25m average time
80% success
0/80
Asked in companies
SAP LabsAdobeDirecti

You are present at point ‘A’ which is the top-left cell of an M X N matrix, your destination is point ‘B’, which is the bottom-right cell of the same matrix. Your task is to find the total number of unique paths from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’.In other words, you will be given the dimensions of the matrix as integers ‘M’ and ‘N’, your task is to find the total number of unique paths from the cell MATRIX[0][0] to MATRIX['M' - 1]['N' - 1].

To traverse in the matrix, you can either move Right or Down at each step. For example in a given point MATRIX[i] [j], you can move to either MATRIX[i + 1][j] or MATRIX[i][j + 1].

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2. Longest Increasing Subsequence

Moderate
30m average time
65% success
0/80
Asked in companies
IBMVisaOYO

For a given array with N elements, you need to find the length of the longest subsequence from the array such that all the elements of the subsequence are sorted in strictly increasing order.

Strictly Increasing Sequence is when each term in the sequence is larger than the preceding term.

For example:
[1, 2, 3, 4] is a strictly increasing array, while [2, 1, 4, 3] is not.
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02
Round
Hard
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date7 Aug 2020
Coding problem3

This was held on Amazon Chime and the interview lasted for 1 hour. Firstly the interviewer asked to introduce about myself, later asked regarding the projects I have mentioned in my resume.There were 2 interviewers. Then started displaying the coding question. The first question is related to Matrices. Find a pair with maximum product in array of Integers.The second question is Given an treeWrite a Program to Find the Maximum Depth or Height of a Tree.After solving both the questions in the optimized approach, the interviewer asked me for the 3rd question because we were still having time. The third question is Given a string with no separator, find the missing number in the string.The interviewer was very friendly.

1. Maximum Product Subarray

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

You are given an array “arr'' of integers. Your task is to find the contiguous subarray within the array which has the largest product of its elements. You have to report this maximum product.

An array c is a subarray of array d if c can be obtained from d by deletion of several elements from the beginning and several elements from the end.

For e.g.- The non-empty subarrays of an array [1,2,3] will be- [1],[2],[3],[1,2],[2,3],[1,2,3]. 
For Example:
If arr = {-3,4,5}.
All the possible non-empty contiguous subarrays of “arr” are {-3}, {4}, {5}, {-3,4}, {4,5} and {-3,4,5}.
The product of these subarrays are -3, 4, 5, -12, 20 and -60 respectively.
The maximum product is 20. Hence, the answer is 20.
Follow Up:
Can you solve this in linear time and constant space complexity?
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2. Height of the Binary Tree

Moderate
10m average time
90% success
0/80
Asked in companies
Morgan StanleyAmazonSymphony Talent, LLC

You have been given the Inorder Traversal and Level Order Traversal of a Binary Tree of integers. Your task is to calculate the height of the Binary tree without constructing it.

The height of the binary tree is the number of edges in the longest path from the root node to any leaf node in the tree. In case the tree has only one node, the height is taken to be 0.

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3. Find Missing Number In String

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

You had a sequence of consecutive nonnegative integers. You appended all integers at the end of each other to form a string ‘S’ without any separators. While appending each integer in a string, you forgot to append exactly one integer from the sequence. Now all the integers from a string and you don’t know which integer you have missed.

For example sequence 11, 12, 13 may form a string (without any separators) “1113” if you miss 12.

Your task is to find the missing number in the string such that it is possible to obtain a sequence of consecutive non-negative integers from the given string. If more than one missing integer is present or all the integers are already present or if the string is not valid then the answer will be -1 for all such cases.

Note:
1. The string consists of only digits 0 to 9.
2. The numbers will have no more than six digits. 
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