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3 rounds | 3 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
My interview was quite good. I was very nervous because I never experience this type of interview before however I did my post graduation at the time of Covid that's why I didn't get a chance to gave the practice interview before actual at my college campus. As I said I was very nervous when the interviewer asked me to introduce my self, I replied quite confident but after that I don't know what happened to me and my confident level goes to zero and then my interviewer told me to first relax yourself drink some water and just treat me as your elder brother. After that I were little confident then my interview went well.
Application story
I applied this job from Superset. My college created ID on Superset platform where we can apply for different job posts.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I were selected for this role because I were a fresher and ambitious about my learning I tell him that I will upskill my self and because of Covid what I did to improve my self.
Preparation
Duration: 1 month
Topics: OOPS, Data Structures, Cloud, Networking, OS, Python
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Focus on the OOPS concept. Interviewer will definitely ask question based on OOPS
Tip 2 : Emphasize on what you your role in Semester projects and explain your project as much as possible so it takes time and interviewer will ask least questions ahead.

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: Minimum 70% in all your acadmics
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1: Make your resume clean and to the point.
Tip 2: Don't write any other things which you don't know, because interviewer will ask about that.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration90 mins
Interview date26 Aug 2022
Coding problem1

1. DBMS MCQ Question

Which command related to DDL?

02
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration85 mins
Interview date24 Sep 2022
Coding problem1

1. DBMS Question

You have given an employee table then you have to select only those employees whose age is greater than 30 and employees gender will be female.

03
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration20 mins
Interview date28 Sep 2022
Coding problem1

1. Sudoku Solver

Hard
25m average time
75% success
0/120
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You have been given a 9x9 2d integer matrix 'MAT' representing a Sudoku puzzle. The empty cells of the Sudoku are filled with zeros, and the rest of the cells are filled with integers from 1 to 9. Your task is to fill all the empty cells such that the final matrix represents a Sudoku solution.

Note:
A Sudoku solution must satisfy all the following conditions-
1. Each of the digits 1-9 must occur exactly once in each row.
2. Each of the digits 1-9 must occur exactly once in each column.
3. Each of the digits 1-9 must occur exactly once in each of the 9, 3x3 sub-grids of the grid.

You can also assume that there will be only one sudoku solution for the given matrix.
Problem approach

First he explain me that did you played Sukodu ever , then he asked me this question
First I explain him I will apply bubble sort to each of the Row and Column I know I was wrong then he help me alot to solve this question then I tell him that I will apply backtracking.

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