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SDE - Intern

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2 rounds | 3 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 4 months
Topics: Data Structures, Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Time Complexity, Programming Language Implementation
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : For an intern position in any big company, the most important thing is practicing data structures. Solve as many questions as you can on platforms like Coding Ninjas. First start picking up questions topic-wise and once you gain a decent confidence in every topic, start hitting harder questions randomly on various platforms. (Practice a minimum of 300 questions).
Tip 2 : If you are stuck at solving any question, instead of looking up for a code solution try to read discussions and see various approaches people are applying. This will surely make you prepared for the way in which the interviews are designed. Always keep a clock ticking while solving a problem as spending too much time while practicing surely makes you slow in the Online Tests and Interviews.
Tip 3 : Again specifically for internship preparation, focus mainly on the subjects that have been taught to you till now. As in many colleges Database Management, Operating Systems and Computer Networks are not taught till the 4th semester so you could easily focus on subjects in your curriculum. OOPS concepts are very important!

Application process
Where: Referral
Eligibility: 7 CGPA for CS, 8 CGPA for ECE and EE
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : In On-Campus internship drives it is generally not required to have a very charming resume with a load of projects as the companies understand the candidate as a 4th semester student. 
Tip 2 : But still if there is even a single decent project genuinely build by the student then it is more than sufficient.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Telephonic
Duration60 minutes
Interview date12 Aug 2021
Coding problem2

1. Ways to Arrange Balls

Hard
40m average time
50% success
0/120
Asked in companies
GeeksforGeeksDavis SoftwareFord Motor Company

Given ‘a’ balls of type ‘A’, ‘b’ balls of type ‘B’ and ‘c’ balls of type ‘C’. You need to find the total number of ways to arrange the balls in a straight line such that adjacent balls are of different types.

In other words, find the total ways to arrange the given balls in such a way that no two balls of the same type are adjacent.

For Example :
Suppose we have 2 balls of type ‘A’, 1 ball of type ‘B’ and 1 ball of type ‘C’, following are the ways to arrange them in the required fashion. 
ABCA
ABAC 
ACBA 
ACAB 
BACA 
CABA 
Hence, there is a total of six ways.
Problem approach

I used the recursion to solve it but it can be solve by DP also

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2. Longest Common Subsequence

Moderate
0/80
Asked in companies
ShareChatOptumSamsung

You have been given two Strings “STR1” and “STR2” of characters. Your task is to find the length of the longest common subsequence.

A String ‘a’ is a subsequence of a String ‘b’ if ‘a’ can be obtained from ‘b’ by deletion of several (possibly, zero or all) characters. A common subsequence of two Strings is a subsequence that is common to both Strings.

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02
Round
Easy
Telephonic
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date13 Aug 2021
Coding problem1

1. Pythagorean Triplets

Moderate
35m average time
70% success
0/80
Asked in companies
AmazonOYOErnst & Young (EY)

You are given an array of n integers (a1, a2,....,an), you need to find if the array contains a pythagorean triplet or not.

An array is said to have a pythagorean triplet if there exists three integers x,y and z in the array such that x^2 + y^2 = z^2.

Note
1. The integers x,y and z might not be distinct , but they should be present at different locations in the array i.e if a[i] = x, a[j] = y and a[k] = z, then i,j and k should be pairwise distinct.
2. The integers a,b and c can be present in any order in the given array.
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