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3 rounds | 5 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 5.5 months
Topics: DSA, LLD, Design Patterns, a little bit of HLD, basic java interview questions, DBMS
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : First of all always apply for job interviews when you are fully prepared 
Tip 2 : Whenever you are solving any DSA question always try to communicate the approach with your interviewer and do not directly jump to the solution even if you know the solution
Tip 3 : Always prepare whatever there in your resume do not think that you can fool the interviewer

Application process
Where: Other
Eligibility: no
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Always add only those things in your resume that you actually know and always add your coding profile clickable link
Tip 2 : Always add the tech you used in your project that actually creates a good impact in the hiring manager round

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Test
Duration60 mins
Interview date23 Jun 2022
Coding problem2

Timing: around 9am to 10am exact time I forgot
Type :DSA round

1. Maximum Coins

Hard
16m average time
78% success
0/120
Asked in companies
ZSPayPalSamsung

You are given a two-dimensional matrix of integers of dimensions N*M, where each cell represents the number of coins in that cell. Alice and Bob have to collect the maximum number of coins. The followings are the conditions to collect coins:

Alice starts from top left corner, i.e., (0, 0) and should reach left bottom corner, i.e., (N-1, 0). Bob starts from top right corner, i.e., (0, M-1) and should reach bottom right corner, i.e., (N-1, M-1).

From a point (i, j), Alice and Bob can move to (i+1, j+1) or (i+1, j-1) or (i+1, j)

They have to collect all the coins that are present at a cell. If Alice has already collected coins of a cell, then Bob gets no coins if goes through that cell again.

For example :
If the matrix is 
0 2 4 1
4 8 3 7
2 3 6 2
9 7 8 3
1 5 9 4

Then answer is 47. As, Alice will collect coins 0+8+3+9+1 = 21 coins. Bob will collect coins 1+7+6+8+4 = 26 coins. Total coins is 21+26 = 47 coins.
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2. K Most Frequent Words

Moderate
36m average time
65% success
0/80
Asked in companies
SalesforceDunzoOla

You have been given an array/list 'WORDS' of 'N' non-empty words, and an integer 'K'. Your task is to return the 'K' most frequent words sorted by their frequency from highest to lowest.

Note:

If two words have the same frequency then the lexicographically smallest word should come first in your answer.

Follow up:

Can you solve it in O(N * logK) time and O(N) extra space? 
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02
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration60 mins
Interview date24 Jun 2022
Coding problem2

Timing : moring 9am to 10:am
Type: DSA

1. Maximum Sum No Larger Than K

Hard
25m average time
60% success
0/120
Asked in companies
DunzoAmazonCIS - Cyber Infrastructure

You are given an ‘N’ x ‘M’ matrix ‘MAT’ and an integer ‘K’. Your task is to find the maximum sum of a rectangle in the matrix which is less than or equal to ‘K’.

For Example:

You are given ‘MAT’= [[1, 2],[3, 4]] and ‘K’ = 8. 

Then the answer will be 7 (the sum of the red rectangle).
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2. Binary Matrix

Hard
25m average time
75% success
0/120
Asked in companies
AppleDunzoOYO

You are given a matrix ‘MAT’ consisting of ‘N’ rows and ‘M’ columns. Let (i, j) represent the cell at the intersection of the ith row and the jth column. Each cell of the matrix ‘MAT’ has either integer 0 or 1. For each cell in ‘MAT’, you have to find the Manhattan distance of the nearest cell from this cell that has the integer 0. The nearest cell will be the cell having the minimum Manhattan distance from it.

Manhattan distance between two cells, (p1, q1) and (p2, q2) is |p1 - p2| + |q1 - q2|.

You should return a matrix consisting of ‘N’ rows and ‘M’ columns, where the cell (i, j) represents the Manhattan distance of the nearest cell from the cell (i, j) in ‘MAT’ that has integer 0.

Note
1. There is at least one cell having the integer 0 in the given matrix.
Example:
Consider the following 2*3 matrix ‘MAT’:
                 [0, 1, 1]
                 [0, 1, 1]

Here, the nearest cell having the integer 0 from the cell (0, 0) is the cell (0, 0) itself. The Manhattan distance between them is |0 - 0| + |0 - 0| = 0.

The nearest cell having the integer 0 from the cell (0, 1) is cell (0, 0). The Manhattan distance between them is |0 - 0| + |1 - 0| = 1.

The nearest cell having the integer 0 from the cell (0, 2) is cell (0, 0). The Manhattan distance between them is |0 - 0| + |2 - 0| = 2.

The nearest cell having the integer 0 from the cell (1, 0) is cell (1, 0) itself. The Manhattan distance between them is |1 - 1| + |0 - 0| = 0.

The nearest cell having the integer 0 from the cell (1, 1) is cell (1, 0). The Manhattan distance between them is |1 - 1| + |1 - 0| = 1.

The nearest cell having the integer 0 from the cell (1, 2) is cell (1, 0). The Manhattan distance between them is |1 - 1| + |2 - 0| = 2.
Thus we should return matrix:

                [0, 1, 2]
                [0, 1, 2]
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03
Round
Easy
Face to Face
Duration60 mins
Interview date25 Jun 2022
Coding problem1

Timing: evening 4pm 
Type: Hiring manager

1. Basic HR Questions

1. Starts with introduction ,then goes directly to resume and asked the question related to the tech stack that I used in the project
2.After the technical discussion he asked the question like what are the two things that you like about your current organization , what is your contribution in the architecture of your project , etc

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