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2 rounds | 4 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
I started coding from 11th class in my school. I did Codechef and Leetcode questions on daily basis, and participated in every possible hackathon to develop my skills.
Application story
Company visited to your campus for the placement where they first took the OA then they call us for the interview.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I think I was rejected because I was not able to answer all the question correctly under the given time of the interview
Preparation
Duration: 3 months
Topics: Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Practice Atleast 250 Questions
Tip 2 : Do atleast 2 projects

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

Tip 1 : Keep your resume short and clear. Mention your projects and internships with a brief description and year of completion. Mention coding languages are known to you, or other technical skills that you are good at. Do not mention anything that you are not good at. Highlight the topics that you are really good at. 
Tip 2 : Be very honest and figure out only those things in your resume that you really know. Anything extra or unknown may have a negative impact upon your interview if asked by the interviewer.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration45 minutes
Interview date26 Nov 2022
Coding problem2

1. Left View Of Binary Tree

Moderate
30m average time
60% success
0/80
Asked in companies
MicrosoftGeeksforGeeksBNY Mellon

You have been given a Binary Tree of 'n' nodes, where the nodes have integer values



Example :
If the input tree is as depicted in the picture: 

alt text

The Left View of the tree will be:  2 35 2 
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2. Symmetric Tree

Easy
20m average time
82% success
0/40
Asked in companies
OLX GroupIBMAdobe

You are given a binary tree, where the data present in each node is an integer. You have to find whether the given tree is symmetric or not.

Symmetric tree is a binary tree, whose mirror image is exactly the same as the original tree.

For Example:

sym_tree

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02
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration45 minutes
Interview date26 Nov 2022
Coding problem2

1. Rat In A Maze

Easy
15m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
OlaZSMicrosoft

You are given a starting position for a rat which is stuck in a maze at an initial point (0, 0) (the maze can be thought of as a 2-dimensional plane). The maze would be given in the form of a square matrix of order 'N' * 'N' where the cells with value 0 represent the maze’s blocked locations while value 1 is the open/available path that the rat can take to reach its destination. The rat's destination is at ('N' - 1, 'N' - 1). Your task is to find all the possible paths that the rat can take to reach from source to destination in the maze. The possible directions that it can take to move in the maze are 'U'(up) i.e. (x, y - 1) , 'D'(down) i.e. (x, y + 1) , 'L' (left) i.e. (x - 1, y), 'R' (right) i.e. (x + 1, y).

Note:
Here, sorted paths mean that the expected output should be in alphabetical order.
For Example:
Given a square matrix of size 4*4 (i.e. here 'N' = 4):
1 0 0 0
1 1 0 0
1 1 0 0
0 1 1 1 
Expected Output:
DDRDRR DRDDRR 
i.e. Path-1: DDRDRR and Path-2: DRDDRR

The rat can reach the destination at (3, 3) from (0, 0) by two paths, i.e. DRDDRR and DDRDRR when printed in sorted order, we get DDRDRR DRDDRR.
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2. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree III

Moderate
25m average time
75% success
0/80
Asked in companies
AmazonSalesforceSwiggy

The node structure of a binary tree is modified such that each node has the reference to its parent node.

You are given two nodes: ‘N1’ and ‘N2’, of the above binary tree. Your task is to return the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of the given nodes.

Note:

Let ‘TREE’ be a binary tree. The lowest common ancestor of two nodes, ‘N1’ and ‘N2’, is defined as the lowest node in ‘TREE’ with ‘N1’ and ‘N2’ as descendants (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself).
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