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3 rounds | 3 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 2 months
Topics: Linked List, Trees, LLD, HLD, Dynamic Programming
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Focus on Linked List and Trees for the first round of interview, the problems generally revolve around Medium to High difficulty
Tip 2 : For Round 2, you need to prepare LLD and HLD. You should know your current project thoroughly

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

Tip 1 : Keep your resume crisp and clear. Do not mention basic things like developed APIs for this or that. Mention facts about the kind of processing that you've done
Tip 2 : Do mention any open-source/off-work projects if you've done any.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date10 Aug 2021
Coding problem2

Timing : Morning
Environment : The interviewer was very friendly and kept the environment constructive.
Problems : Mostly basic Problem solving and Trees

1. Clone Linked List with Random Pointer

Easy
10m average time
90% success
0/40
Asked in companies
Urban Company (UrbanClap)AmazonMeesho

Given a linked list having two pointers in each node. The first one points to the next node of the list, however, the other pointer is random and can point to any node of the list or null. The task is to create a deep copy of the given linked list and return its head. We will validate whether the linked list is a copy of the original linked list or not.

A deep copy of a Linked List means we do not copy the references of the nodes of the original Linked List rather for each node in the original Linked List, a new node is created.

For example,

example

Random pointers are shown in red and next pointers in black.

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2. Time To Burn Tree

Hard
50m average time
50% success
0/120
Asked in companies
MicrosoftThalesOLX Group

You have a binary tree of 'N' unique nodes and a Start node from where the tree will start to burn. Given that the Start node will always exist in the tree, your task is to print the time (in minutes) that it will take to burn the whole tree.


It is given that it takes 1 minute for the fire to travel from the burning node to its adjacent node and burn down the adjacent node.


For Example :
For the given binary tree: [1, 2, 3, -1, -1, 4, 5, -1, -1, -1, -1]
Start Node: 3

    1
   / \
  2   3
     / \
    4   5

Output: 2

Explanation :
In the zeroth minute, Node 3 will start to burn.

After one minute, Nodes (1, 4, 5) that are adjacent to 3 will burn completely.

After two minutes, the only remaining Node 2 will be burnt and there will be no nodes remaining in the binary tree. 

So, the whole tree will burn in 2 minutes.
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02
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date13 Aug 2021
Coding problem1

Timing : Afternoon
Interviewer was nice

1. System Design Question

Design a Rewards System.

requirement:
1. User should be able to see available rewards.
2. User should be able to claim rewards.
3. Rewards may have a eligibility criteria like referrals, min transactions
4. The system should be highly scalable and robust.
5. There should be no Single Point of Failure

Problem approach

Tip 1 : Try to identify the various entities and their interactions.
Tip 2 : Get an idea of traffic from the interviewer to analyse memory and bandwidth requirements
Tip 3 : Do not over-complicate the problem, keep you design simple, modular.

03
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration40 Minutes
Interview date16 Aug 2021
Coding problem0

Behavioral and Salary discussion

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