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SDE - Intern

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2 rounds | 3 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
It's through randomly scrolling through the job listings on twitter for SDE-Intern positions , I came across this posting of SDE Intern at Bloomberg, London around August 2022. As it's a foreign job listing, I didn't have much hopes of hearing back from them, but still I got this intuition ,that I should apply for it and thus I applied. And to my surprise, towards the end of month of January 2023, I received a mail for my resume being shortlisted and further steps mail.
Application story
So, one day randomly scrolling through job positing I came across SDE Intern positing by Bloomberg, London around August 2022. I don't have much hopes of hearing back from them as it's a foreign posting nevertheless I still applied and to my great surprise heard back from them around the end of January 2023. The mail confirms I was shortlisted and asked me to choose a suitable time slot for conduction of Round 1(Technical Round1/Screening round) I chose a slot of 5-6 pm on 2nd February and after 5 working days I received another mail confirming my advancements to the round 2(Technical Round 2) , and confirming my availability on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday on coming three weeks. I submitted my availability for the coming Tuesday but due to network issues at my end, my interview was postponed and rescheduled to next Friday . The interviewers were nice and supportive ,but unfortunately I couldn't advanced to the next round ,i.e., the systems design round.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I tried my best, even my interview went well but unfortunately I was rejected for this role. I asked for written feedback but didn't receive it yet.
Preparation
Duration: 1 Month
Topics: Data Structues, Dynamic Programming,Graphs(basic), Trees, OOPS, Operating Systems, DBMS
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Revise the concepts of time complexity and space complexity well.
Tip 2 : Practice through the popular company-specific interview questions.
Tip 3 : Have atleast one decent project on your resume

Application process
Where: Other
Eligibility: Above 7 CGPA
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Have atleast one project on resume
Tip 2 : Do not put false things on resume.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration40 minutes
Interview date2 Feb 2023
Coding problem1

I received hacker rank link and zoom link. The interviewer was friendly. It began with a little introduction from the interviewer side and then from my side, then we jump to the question to solved. There are no test cases and so we have to do a run dry run of our solution on the testcases provided by the interviewer.

1. Invalid Transactions

Moderate
30m average time
70% success
0/80
Asked in company
Goldman Sachs

You are the manager of a bank. You have seen the database of the bank and have seen ‘N’ transactions. Each transaction has a customer id, transaction amount, time of the transaction, and the city code of the transaction. Now a transaction is invalid if the transaction amount exceeds Rs 1000 or the transaction occurs within 60 minutes of another transaction with the same customer id but in a different city. Find the number of invalid transactions.

Example:-
N = 3
TRANSACTIONS = [(1,20,100,1),(2,30,24,1),(1,60,90,2)]  [For the first transaction, customer_id is 1, the time of transaction is 20 minutes, the amount of transaction is Rs 100 and the city code where the transaction took place is 1, so the tuples are in the form (customer_id, time_fo_transaction, amount_of_transaction, city_code)].

ANSWER:- The invalid transactions are [(1,20,100,1),(1,60,90,2)] as the transactions are under the same customer id and have occurred in different cities within 60 minutes 
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02
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration40 minutes
Interview date24 Feb 2023
Coding problem2

My interview was in the evening, there were a little bit of connectivity issues and but the interviewer was really supported. The interview started with the introduction of both us and then we discussed a little bit about the project on my resume and my previous internship experience. After this we jumped to the questions , there were two questions , first one is of medium difficulty and another is from trees and of hard difficulty.

1. Ninja And Stack Of Boxes

Hard
45m average time
55% success
0/120
Asked in companies
MicrosoftAdobeNutanix

Ninja has been given ‘N’ rectangular 3-D ‘BOXES’. Each box has dimensions Length ‘L’, Breadth ‘B’ and Height ‘H’. Ninja has to create a stack of boxes as tall as possible. But there is a condition to do so.

You can only place a box on top of another box only if the dimensions of the 2-D base of the lower box are each strictly larger than those of the 2-D base of the higher box. You can rotate any box so that any side of the box is used as a base. You can take multiple instances of any box.

Can you help the Ninja to create a stack of boxes as tall as possible?.

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2. Minimum Maximum Value

Hard
0/120
Asked in company
Microsoft

You are given a mathematical expression ‘exp’ consisting of only two operators ‘+’ and ‘*’. You have to find the maximum and minimum value possible of the expression by placing valid parentheses anywhere in the expression.

For example:
You are given ‘exp’ = 1*2+4*5+3, here the minimum and maximum value of the expression occurs when , (1*2) + (4*5) + 3 = 25, and   1*(2 + 4) *(5 + 3) = 48. Hence the answer is [25, 48].
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