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SDE - Intern

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2 rounds | 4 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
I started coding in my 2nd year and solved more than 1000 questions on various coding platforms such as Leetcode, and geeks for geeks to increase my efficiency. I also participated in various competitive contests held on CodeChef. I also learnt core subjects fundamentals from various youtube channels.
Application story
This company visited our campus for the placement. First, they took the online assessment. Later, they called us for the interview rounds.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I was able to get all answers correctly and solve given DSA problems optimally thats why i got selected for this role. I gave the space and time complexity as well for every solution that I told, which made an impression that I have a clear and deep knowledge of all the algorithms.
Preparation
Duration: 3 months
Topics: Data Structures and Algorithms, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Prepare DSA Questions from coding ninja or interview bit
Tip 2 : Have knowledge about SQL and datbases
Tip 3 : Practice Atleast 200 coding questions from gfg

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: Computer science allowed
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Attach links to coding profiles
Tip 2 : Mention short description of your team projects and individual as well

Interview rounds

01
Round
Hard
Online Coding Interview
Duration45 minutes
Interview date20 Aug 2020
Coding problem2

Round was scheduled in the early afternoon hours most probably from 1 to 2 on hackerrank.

1. BST to greater tree

Easy
0/40
Asked in company
Arcesium

Given a binary search tree of integers with N number of nodes. Your task is to convert it to a Greater Tree.

A Greater Tree is formed when data of every node of the original BST is changed to the original node’s data plus the sum of all node’s data greater than or equal to it.

A binary search tree (BST) is a binary tree data structure which has the following properties.

• The left subtree of a node contains only nodes with data less than the node’s data.
• The right subtree of a node contains only nodes with data greater than the node’s data.
• Both the left and right subtrees must also be binary search trees.
For example:

Input:

Example

Output:

Because only 5 is greater than 4 in the above BST, node 4 will be updated to 9 (4 + 5 = 9).
Nodes 3, 4, and 5 are greater than 2, hence node 2 will be modified to 14 (2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = 14). 
Node with data 5 will remain the same because there is no node in the BST with data greater than 5.
Nodes 2,3, 4, and 5 are greater than 1, hence node 1 will be modified to 15 (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = 15).   
Nodes 4 and 5 are greater than 3, hence node 3 will be modified to 12 (3 + 4 + 5 = 12). 
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2. Ninja and BInary String

Easy
0/40
Asked in companies
Morgan StanleyArcesiumAmazon

Ninja is given a binary string ‘S’ of size ‘N’ by his friend, the task is to check if the binary string ‘S’ can be sorted in decreasing order by removing any number of the non-adjacent characters. Since Ninja is busy with some work he is asking for your help. Can you help him?

Note:

A binary string is a string in which all characters are either ‘1’ or ‘0’.

The order is not strictly decreasing.
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02
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration40 minutes
Interview date26 Aug 2020
Coding problem2

This round was conducted on Code Share platform. I was shared the invitation link one day prior to the interview and also was told the name of my interviewer. I looked at the profile of the interviewer at linked.in and got a better understanding of what kind of person he was and prepared accordingly. The round was scheduled at 3 :00 pm on 25th August and I was eagerly waiting for the clock hands to reach 3 o'clock since morning and finally I went in front of him after wearing a white shirt and a black coat over it along with a tie over it.

1. Spiral Order Traversal of a Binary Tree

Easy
20m average time
75% success
0/40
Asked in companies
PayUSamsungInfosys

You have been given a binary tree of 'N' nodes. Print the Spiral Order traversal of this binary tree.

For example
For the given binary tree [1, 2, 3, -1, -1, 4, 5, -1, -1, -1, -1]
    1
   / \
  2   3
     / \
    4   5

Output: 1 3 2 4 5
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2. Operating System Questions

Producer consumer problem and it's possible solution?
What is virtual memory and physical memory?
What is garbage collector?
Difference b/w thread and process.

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

Skill covered: Programming

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