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Associate Software Engineer

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4 rounds | 8 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
Basically I am from CSE background I applied for this company in an oncampus drive and started my preparation according to the rounds during the interview process. Overall it was a great experience
Application story
I have applied for this company in an on campus drive through my college training and placement cell
Why selected/rejected for the role?
The reason that I have selected is because I have satisfied their requirements of strong basics, buying honest, being confident.
Preparation
Duration: 3 months
Topics: Aptitude, Communication,Basic Programming,SQL,Data Structure and Algorithms
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Be strong with basics
Tip 2 : Be confident
Tip 3 : Be honest

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: Minimum of 6.5 CGPA
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1: Include only what you know
Tip 2: Keep it brief

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration60 mins
Interview date11 May 2022
Coding problem3

It was during afternoon It's an online test

1. DBMS Question

Given employees table query the nth highest or lowest salary from the employee table where salary is a field in the table

Problem approach

Tip 1: Should know the concept
Tip 2:Should practice queries 
Tip 3:Should be strong with basics

2. OOPs Question

Question were about all OOPS concepts

Problem approach

Tip 1: Be Strong with the basics

3. What is the output?

Pseudo codes that includes loops if else conditions were asked

 

#include int main(){

    float x = 0.0;    

long int y = 10; 

   printf("%d", sizeof(y) == sizeof(x+y));    

return 0;}

Problem approach

Ans:- output is 0

02
Round
Medium
Group Discussion
Duration60 mins
Interview date18 May 2022
Coding problem1

It was communication round, In this round we discussed about impact of COVID on IT industry

1. GD Question

Given a topic should speak on the topic for short duration

Problem approach

Tip 1: Be clear and loud

03
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration30 mins
Interview date21 May 2022
Coding problem3

It was a technical interview

1. Sort Array of 0s and 1s.

Easy
10m average time
90% success
0/40
Asked in companies
WalmartIon TradingHashedIn

You are given an array ‘A’ of size ‘N’ containing only 0s and 1s. You have to sort the array by traversing the array only once.

For Example:
For the following array:
[0 1 1 1 0 0 1]

The output should be [0 0 0 1 1 1 1].
Note:
You have to sort the array in place.
Problem approach

Tip 1: Be good with basics

Try solving now

2. Merge Sort

Easy
15m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
Media.netHewlett Packard EnterpriseIBM

Given a sequence of numbers ‘ARR’. Your task is to return a sorted sequence of ‘ARR’ in non-descending order with help of the merge sort algorithm.

Example :

Merge Sort Algorithm -

Merge sort is a Divide and Conquer based Algorithm. It divides the input array into two-parts, until the size of the input array is not ‘1’. In the return part, it will merge two sorted arrays a return a whole merged sorted array.

subsequence

The above illustrates shows how merge sort works.
Note :
It is compulsory to use the ‘Merge Sort’ algorithm.
Problem approach

step 1: start

step 2: declare array and left, right, mid variable

step 3: perform merge function.
if left > right
return
mid= (left+right)/2
mergesort(array, left, mid)
mergesort(array, mid+1, right)
merge(array, left, mid, right)

step 4: Stop

Try solving now

3. OOPs Question

What are the pillars of OOPS explain with real world examples

Problem approach

Tip 1: Be clear with OOPS

04
Round
Medium
HR Round
Duration30 mins
Interview date25 May 2022
Coding problem1

It was a typical HR round

1. Basic HR Questions

Introduce yourself

Tell me about strength and weakness

Problem approach

Tip 1: Be genuine

Here's your problem of the day

Solving this problem will increase your chance to get selected in this company

Skill covered: Programming

What is recursion?

Choose another skill to practice
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