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Consulting Engineer

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3 rounds | 3 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 4 months
Topics: Basic Networking Questions , Data Structures , Aptitude , Operating System , DBMS
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Practice coding questions on Leetcode
Tip 2 : Do atleast 1 project in team as team work is important
Tip 3 : For networking questions , try to learn real life examples

Application process
Where: Other
Eligibility: Student must be from Cisco networking academy , Above 7 CGPA , No current backlogs
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Be honest with your resume
Tip 2 : Have atleast 2 project in resume and out of them atleast one should be in team

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration50 minutes
Interview date16 Nov 2021
Coding problem1

1. Sort Odd Even

Easy
15m average time
80% success
0/40
Asked in companies
CiscoZoho Corporation

You are given a 0-indexed array ‘NUMS’ consisting of ‘N’ integers. Sort the array ‘NUMS’ in such a way that the first half of the array contains only odd numbers sorted in non-increasing order and the second half contains only even numbers sorted in non-decreasing order.

Example:
Input: ‘N’ = 4,  ‘NUMS’ = [2, 5, 3, 6] 

Output: [5, 3, 2, 6]

Sorting the odd numbers of the array ‘NUMS’ in non-increasing order, the result is 5, 3
Then, Sorting the even numbers in non-decreasing order, the result is 2, 6.
Since the final array should contain the odd numbers in non-increasing order in the first half and even numbers in non-decreasing order in the other half.
So, the final array is [5, 3, 2, 6].
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02
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration40 minutes
Interview date17 Nov 2021
Coding problem1

1. Bubble sort

Easy
10m average time
90% success
0/40
Asked in companies
OptumAccentureWells Fargo

Bubble Sort is one of the sorting algorithms that works by repeatedly swapping the adjacent elements of the array if they are not in sorted order.

You are given an unsorted array consisting of N non-negative integers. Your task is to sort the array in non-decreasing order using the Bubble Sort algorithm.

For Example:
Bubble Sort implementation for the given array:  {6,2,8,4,10} is shown below :-

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Problem approach

Just apply the concept of bubble sort

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03
Round
Medium
HR Round
Duration15 minutes
Interview date17 Nov 2021
Coding problem1

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