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3 rounds | 5 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
I started my journey by self-learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript during the COVID-19 crisis and made some small projects. I realized my skills were not enough for a long-term career in tech, so I decided to pursue a full-time web development course at Masai School, where I gained over 1200 hours of hands-on experience with the MERN stack and 300 hours of DSA.
Application story
I applied for this role at CashKaro in March via LinkedIn. I received a call in May informing me that my resume had been selected for the first round of interviews. That is when the whole interview process started.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I was selected for the role because I cleared all three interview rounds: the technical quiz, the DSA round, and the live coding round. I was a good fit for the role, and my experience in the MERN Stack added an advantage.
Preparation
Duration: 8 months
Topics: Two Pointers, Sliding Window, Linked List, Recursion, OOPS
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Be Consistent, do not try to remember or mug up things. 
Tip 2 : Practice DSA, solve at least 2 problems on any coding platforms daily.

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

Tip 1: Mention at least two full-stack projects. If you have many projects, put them in your portfolio and hyperlink it on your resume. 

Tip 2: Do not put false information.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration30 minutes
Interview date2 May 2023
Coding problem2

1. React Questions

What is useState in React? (Learn)

2. House Robber

Moderate
26m average time
0/80
Asked in companies
PayPalExpedia GroupGoldman Sachs

A thief wants to loot houses. He knows the amount of money in each house. He cannot loot two consecutive houses. Find the maximum amount of money he can loot.

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02
Round
Medium
Online Coding Test
Duration45 minutes
Interview date4 May 2023
Coding problem2

DSA / Problem Solving.

1. Unique Paths

Moderate
25m average time
80% success
0/80
Asked in companies
SAP LabsAdobeDirecti

You are present at point ‘A’ which is the top-left cell of an M X N matrix, your destination is point ‘B’, which is the bottom-right cell of the same matrix. Your task is to find the total number of unique paths from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’.In other words, you will be given the dimensions of the matrix as integers ‘M’ and ‘N’, your task is to find the total number of unique paths from the cell MATRIX[0][0] to MATRIX['M' - 1]['N' - 1].

To traverse in the matrix, you can either move Right or Down at each step. For example in a given point MATRIX[i] [j], you can move to either MATRIX[i + 1][j] or MATRIX[i][j + 1].

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2. Find all occurrences

Moderate
35m average time
60% success
0/80
Asked in companies
Goldman SachsMicrosoftOracle

You are given a 'M' x 'N' matrix of characters, 'CHARACTER_MATRIX' and a string 'WORD'. Your task is to find and print all occurrences of the string in the given character matrix. You are allowed to search the string in all eight possible directions, i.e. North, South, East, West, North-East, North-West, South-East, South-West.

Note: There should not be any cycle in the output path. The entire string must lie inside the matrix boundary. You should not jump across boundaries, i.e. from row 'N' - 1 to 0 or column 'N' - 1 to 0 or vice versa.

Example:

Consider below matrix of characters,
[ 'D', 'E', 'X', 'X', 'X' ]
[ 'X', 'O', 'E', 'X', 'E' ] 
[ 'D', 'D', 'C', 'O', 'D' ]
[ 'E', 'X', 'E', 'D', 'X' ]
[ 'C', 'X', 'X', 'E', 'X' ]

If the given string is "CODE", below are all its occurrences in the matrix:

'C'(2, 2) 'O'(1, 1) 'D'(0, 0) 'E'(0, 1)
'C'(2, 2) 'O'(1, 1) 'D'(2, 0) 'E'(3, 0)
'C'(2, 2) 'O'(1, 1) 'D'(2, 1) 'E'(1, 2)
'C'(2, 2) 'O'(1, 1) 'D'(2, 1) 'E'(3, 0)
'C'(2, 2) 'O'(1, 1) 'D'(2, 1) 'E'(3, 2)
'C'(2, 2) 'O'(2, 3) 'D'(2, 4) 'E'(1, 4)
'C'(2, 2) 'O'(2, 3) 'D'(3, 3) 'E'(3, 2)
'C'(2, 2) 'O'(2, 3) 'D'(3, 3) 'E'(4, 3)
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03
Round
Easy
Assignment
Duration60 minutes
Interview date8 May 2023
Coding problem1

1. Web Design Questions

Create a full-stack application using Node.js for the backend, MongoDB for the database, and React for the frontend. It should be a student management dashboard with CRUD features.

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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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