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Campus Associate

Colgate Global Business Services
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4 rounds | 7 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
Colgate Global Business Service Ltd: It was a campus placement as a Campus Associate at VIT Pune. The journey was filled with all ups and downs, but I finally managed to crack it in one shot.
Application story
It was an on-campus placement opportunity. I came to know about the company through my college's placement portal and applied for the role. Firstly, there was a pre-placement talk, followed by a group discussion. During the group discussion, there were 10 candidates, and only 2 were selected from each panel. During the interview, each candidate faced two interviewers.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I think I was selected because of my communication skills as well as my strong knowledge about the technology I studied throughout my engineering journey.
Preparation
Duration: 4 months
Topics: Data Structures , Algorithms , OOPS , System Design , DBMS , OS, CN , etc
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Code Daily one problem on any coding platform.
Tip 2 : Make a good Project for interview
Tip 3 : Focus on Communication Skills

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: 7 CGPA (UG) and 60%(HSC) ,60%(SSC)
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Make a detailed one-page resume.
Tip 2 : Mention all details of the Project

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Group Discussion
Duration60 minutes
Interview date9 Aug 2022
Coding problem0

Timing : Morning 10 AM
Group Discussion having 10 panelist each ( 2 were selected from each panel)

Topic: Will AI Replace Humans or Assist Us?

02
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date11 Aug 2022
Coding problem3

Timing : 2 PM
Mode : Virtual

1. Project Based Question

What are hooks? (Learn)

Problem approach

Hooks are used to give functional components an access to use the states and are used to manage side-effects in React. They were introduced React 16.8. They let developers use state and other React features without writing a class For example- State of a component It is important to note that hooks are not used inside the classes

2. React Question

What are props in React? (Learn)

Problem approach

This is one of the coolest features of React. We can make components to interact among themselves. We will consider two components Parent and Children to explain this. We will pass some information as props from our Parent component to the Child component. We can pass as many props as we want to a component.

3. DBMS Question

What is database normalization? (Learn)

Problem approach

It is a process of analyzing the given relation schemas based on their functional dependencies and primary keys to achieve the following desirable properties: 
1. Minimizing Redundancy 
2. Minimizing the Insertion, Deletion, And Update Anomalies Relation schemas that do not meet the properties are decomposed into smaller relation schemas that could meet desirable properties.

03
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration30 minutes
Interview date10 Sep 2022
Coding problem1

This was the last round of the placement journey, and 20 were selected out of 200 for HR round. It was two days after the Technical Interview.

1. Basic HR Questions

Tell me about yourself.

Why do you want to work for our company?

Why should we hire you?

 

Problem approach

Tip 1: Prepare well before giving it.
Tip 2: Focus on your resume.
Tip 3: Speak confidently.

04
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date12 Aug 2022
Coding problem3

DSA Questions

1. Sort 0 1 2

Easy
22m average time
0/40
Asked in companies
AmazonOracleWalmart

You have been given an integer array/list(ARR) of size 'N'. It only contains 0s, 1s and 2s. Write a solution to sort this array/list.

Note :
Try to solve the problem in 'Single Scan'. ' Single Scan' refers to iterating over the array/list just once or to put it in other words, you will be visiting each element in the array/list just once.
Problem approach

In this approach we will be using two pointers(l and r) along with an iterator(i). The entire array will be divided into three ranges:
Index 0 to l-1 (range containing 0)
Index l to r (range containing unknown elements)
Index r+1 to n (range containing 2)
Initialise l=0 and r=n-1.
Inside a for loop, make sure i<=r and do the following steps:
If the i-th element is 0, swap it with arr[l] and increment l and i.
If the i-th element is 2, swap it with arr[r] and decrement r (not i). The loop will automatically check for the next updated value of arr[i].
If the i-th element is arr[i], simply increment i and continue.

Try solving now

2. Reverse Linked List

Moderate
15m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
IBMQuikrMicrosoft

Given a singly linked list of integers. Your task is to return the head of the reversed linked list.

For example:
The given linked list is 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4-> NULL. Then the reverse linked list is 4 -> 3 -> 2 -> 1 -> NULL and the head of the reversed linked list will be 4.
Follow Up :
Can you solve this problem in O(N) time and O(1) space complexity?
Problem approach

Initialize three pointers prev as NULL, curr as head, and next as NULL.
Iterate through the linked list. In a loop, do the following:
Before changing the next of curr, store the next node 
next = curr -> next
Now update the next pointer of curr to the prev 
curr -> next = prev 
Update prev as curr and curr as next 
prev = curr 
curr = next

Try solving now

3. Conceptual Questions

Describe file systems. (Learn)

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?

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