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SDE - Intern

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2 rounds | 3 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
I submitted my application through the company's official careers page after discovering the job posting both on their website and on LinkedIn. I applied without any referral.
Application story
I submitted my application through the company's official careers page after discovering the job posting both on their website and on LinkedIn. I applied independently without any referral.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I was not informed after the second round. I cleared the OA and gave one interview round as well. The topics were standard coding problems which are under the Amazon tag.
Preparation
Duration: 6 months
Topics: DP, Trees, Graphs, Linked Lists, OOPS
Tip
Tip

Tip 1: Always be consistent while doing DSA
Tip 2: Try giving contests 
Tip 3: Build some cool projects.

Application process
Where: Company Website
Eligibility: Above 7 CGPA and only Women graduating in 2023.
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1: Never lie on your resume.

Tip 2: Build cool projects to make your resume stand out from others.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration90 minutes
Interview date13 Aug 2022
Coding problem1

1. Theory Questions

I found the Operating Systems questions a bit tough since they also had questions based on the command line, but I did attempt most of the questions correctly within the time limit.

02
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration70 minutes
Interview date13 Sep 2022
Coding problem2

My interviewer asked me to share my screen, and the interview started with a medium-level DP question. I took 1–2 minutes to think about the edge cases and constraints and clarify with my interviewer. After that, I derived a brute-force approach for the question while sharing my thoughts constantly with the interviewer and taking his affirmation as I proceeded. My interviewer helped me point out an edge case I was missing. I derived the best approach possible from brute force, after which he asked me to code. I explained my code as I wrote it on the document they provided.

1. Longest Palindromic Substring

Moderate
35m average time
78% success
0/80
Asked in companies
UiPathGrabMicrosoft

You are given a string ‘S’ of length ‘N’.

You must return the longest palindromic substring in ‘S’.

Note: Return any of them in case of multiple substrings with the same length.

Example:

Input: ‘S’ =’badam’

Output: ‘ada’

‘ada’ is the longest palindromic substring, and it can be proved that it is the longest possible palindromic substring.
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2. Clone Graph

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

You are given a reference/address of a node in a connected undirected graph containing N nodes and M edges. You are supposed to return a clone of the given graph which is nothing but a deep copy. Each node in the graph contains an integer “data” and an array/list of its neighbours.

The structure of the graphNode class is as follows:

class graphNode 
{  
    public:
        int data;
        vector<graphNode*> neighbours;
}
Note :
1. Nodes are numbered from 1 to N.

2. Your solution will run on multiple test cases. If you are using global variables make sure to clear them.
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