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Associate Consultant

Atos Syntel

3 rounds | 6 Coding problems

Anonymous

Fresher | Jan 2020

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Interview preparation journey

Preparation

Duration: 8 months

Topics: OOPS, Data Structures, Operating Systems.

Tip

Tip 1 : Don't panic for attending interviews, be calm and gradually develop your coding skills.
Tip 2 : Practice logical problems daily.
Tip 3 : Do few real time projects if you are choosing specific domain.

Application process

Where: Campus

Eligibility: 7.5

Resume tip

Tip 1 : Have a one page resume
Tip 2 : Do not showcase your unknown skills

Interview rounds

Round

Medium

Online Coding Interview

Duration90 mins

Interview date3 Jan 2020

Coding problem4

The first round was online MCQ followed by a separate coding MCQ and coding question. In the first round, mcq's were related only to aptitude and communication. Upon clearing the same, few were shortlisted and called for the first sub round which is related to programming. Basics of Java and SQL were the major questions. Few questions related to Operating Systems.

1. Largest Number

Easy

15m average time

85% success

0/40

Asked in companies

You are given an array arr consisting of ‘N’ integers. Your task is to find the largest number, ‘K’, such that both the values ‘K’ and -‘K’ are present in the given array 'arr'. If no such number exists, then return '-1'.

For example:

Consider ‘arr’ = [1,2,-2,-1], the largest value of ‘K’ is 2, since a negative of 2 is also present in the array. Hence, the answer is 2.

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2. Remove Duplicates From String

Moderate

25m average time

0/80

Asked in companies

You are given a string (STR) of length N, consisting of only the lower case English alphabet.

Your task is to remove all the duplicate occurrences of characters in the string.

For Example:

If the given string is:
abcadeecfb

Then after deleting all duplicate occurrences, the string looks like this:
abcdef

Problem approach

Step 1: use the string as per your decided logic.
Step 2: use the slicing and dicing concept to remove the adjacent letters.
Step 3: String with desires result is obtained.

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3. DBMS Question

Write an SQL query to fetch records that are present in one table but not in another table.

Problem approach

Tip 1: If SQL you can use MINUS operator.
Tip 2: If MYSQL you can use left join.
Tip 3: Either one with correct implementation will fetch the required result.

4. DBMS Question

Write an SQL query to fetch the employee’s full names and replace the space with ‘-’.

Problem approach

Tip 1: Use the replace query.
Tip 2: Fetch/select the correct column.

Round

Easy

Group Discussion

Duration60 mins

Interview date4 Jan 2020

Coding problem1

It's more kind of a group discussion activity. But, it's entirely related to technical side. We were separated as 5 members for each team and given with a scenario to come up with a solution.

1. Scenario based question

First, I made up my mind to get involved as a team. I initiated the team members to first understand the problem and then we all can discuss on it. Likewise, everyone came up with different ideas. We all discussed about our opinions and finally fixed to a solution and presented it.

Round

Easy

HR Round

Duration15 mins

Interview date4 Jan 2020

Coding problem1

This round was a personal HR round where my attitude and communication skills were tested. First, a self introduction. Secondly, few scenario based questions (what will you do if you encounter such kind of situation).