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Software Engineer

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4 rounds | 4 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 4 Months
Topics: Arrays, Searching and Sorting, Trees, Graphs, Queues and Stacks, Dynamic Programming
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Consistency is the key. No matter how much you do in a day, it should be everyday.
Tip 2 : Never lose your hope. Positivity is important for consistency. 
Tip 3 : Don't skip anything. You never know what the interviewer might ask.

Application process
Where: Referral
Eligibility: No criteria
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Keep it short, yet descriptive
Tip 2 : If you aren't from a good college, flaunt your projects and coding skills

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date31 Aug 2021
Coding problem1

I got the link in the evening and I was not sure if should I give the test or not. I thought I wasn't ready. Nut then decided to give just for the sake of practice.
There were 3 coding questions. 
2 medium and 1 hard.
I was able to solve both the medium ones and partially the hard one.

1. N Queens

Hard
55m average time
35% success
0/120
Asked in companies
AmazonAdobeIntuit

You are given an integer 'N'. For a given 'N' x 'N' chessboard, find a way to place 'N' queens such that no queen can attack any other queen on the chessboard.

A queen can be killed when it lies in the same row, or same column, or the same diagonal of any of the other queens. You have to print all such configurations.

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02
Round
Easy
Face to Face
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date7 Sep 2021
Coding problem1

It was divided into two parts. For first 30 minutes it was all DSA and in the later part it was computer fundamentals

1. Count Inversions

Moderate
40m average time
55% success
0/80
Asked in companies
Hewlett Packard EnterpriseBNY MellonGrab

For a given integer array/list 'ARR' of size 'N' containing all distinct values, find the total number of 'Inversions' that may exist.

An inversion is defined for a pair of integers in the array/list when the following two conditions are met.

A pair ('ARR[i]', 'ARR[j]') is said to be an inversion when:

1. 'ARR[i] > 'ARR[j]' 
2. 'i' < 'j'

Where 'i' and 'j' denote the indices ranging from [0, 'N').
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03
Round
Easy
Face to Face
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date9 Sep 2021
Coding problem1

Same as the previous round but this time the level of questions was a bit hard. For the DSA round, they asked me questions around graphs and trees. The later part was sql queries

1. Colour The Graph

Moderate
20m average time
80% success
0/80
Asked in companies
MeeshoChegg Inc.Microsoft

You are given a graph with 'N' vertices numbered from '1' to 'N' and 'M' edges. You have to colour this graph in two different colours, say blue and red such that no two vertices connected by an edge are of the same colour.

Note :
The given graph may have connected components.
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04
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration15 Minutes
Interview date18 Sep 2021
Coding problem1

Just family background and simple HR questions

1. Basic HR Questions

How many members are there there in your family?

What are your plans of higher study?

Here's your problem of the day

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

Skill covered: Programming

How do you remove whitespace from the start of a string?

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