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Associate Cloud Engineer

EGIL - Ericsson Global India Limited
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4 rounds | 4 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
I received the offer in my final year campus placement drive of my university. Ericsson is a regular company which recruits freshers each year from our university. Thus, I kept it as a target and did prepare a bit of the basics for the cloud role beforehand. The interview process was a total of 4 rounds. Although the overall procedure was a bit long but they did stay punctual in each case and never delayed in declaring the results after each round. Overall the procedure was smooth. I received my offer letter after the final HR round of interview and the experience was a great one altogether.
Application story
As mentioned, the offer came in due time to our placement cell as it comes every year as its a regular company. Our placement cell took an internal test on cloud and allowed the students who scored above 50% to apply for the role. All students who applied got to sit for the first round of written test from which onwards they filtered for the next 3 rounds and gave the offer letter to those who passed all the 4 rounds.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I suppose I was able to convey my ability successfully to the interviewers. The first round was pure examination which we needed to pass solely on our knowledge. The next two round is grind based on your knowledge and resume. They never start asking anything that is not mentioned by us. They question only on topics mentioned in our resume or mentioned by us in the interview. But they do ask detailed questions on those topics. So its important to know fully about any topic that you have mentioned in the resume or you are talking about.
Preparation
Duration: 4 months
Topics: DSA, OOPS, Networking, Basics of AWS, GCP and Azure, Any 1 programming language (C++, Java, Python)
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Divide your syllabus equally keeping the last 1-2 weeks for revision.
Tip 2 : Keep track of the schedule and keep on revising older topics occasionally while moving ahead
Tip 3 : Be confident on what you learn. If you know then know it completely or else leave the topic entirely.
Tip 4 : Do atleast 2 hands-on projects of Cloud to get a realtime understanding of how the platform works.

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: 7 CGPA, No backlogs, Knows atleast 1 programming lan
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Keep the resume compact consisting only of important points
Tip 2 : No need of describing a point. Rather include projects and internships that you have worked on with key points of topics that you have learned there.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration90 minutes
Interview date12 Jul 2021
Coding problem2

Timing was free to be selected as the timer starts only after the link is opened.
We were given a deadline of 5 days to appear for the test.
However, our university scheduled it on one evening for everyone. 
The exam was conducted in out university computer labs with our professors as guards on round.
There was no significant event as such. Everyone gave their own exam successfully. 
The exam happened without causing any issue of any kind.

1. Kth smallest element in an unsorted array

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

Given an unsorted array ‘arr’ of distinct integers and an integer ‘k’, your task is to find the ‘k-th’ smallest element in the array.

Example:
n = 5, k = 2 and arr[] = {6, 5, 4, 8, 7}
The array elements in sorted order are [4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. The ‘2-nd’ smallest element in the array is 5, so the answer is 5.
Note:
1. Don’t print anything. Return the value of ‘k-th’ smallest element.
2. ‘k’ is a positive integer and not greater than the size of the array.
3. The array ‘arr’ is unsorted, and all the elements of the array are distinct.
Problem approach

Divide array in groups
Sort groups and find median of each
Store all the medians in a auxiliary array
Find median of median
Thats the answer

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2. Covid Spread

Hard
45m average time
55% success
0/120
Asked in companies
MicrosoftAmazonFlipkart limited

You are given a city which contains 'N' x 'M' houses, where each house can have one of the following three conditions :

1. The value ‘0’ represents an empty house,
2. The value ‘1’ represents a non-infected person,
3. The value ‘2’ represents an infected person.

It takes one day to propagate the infection from an infected house to its adjacent (Front, Back, Left, Right) non-empty and non-infected house. An empty house can only break the line of propagation of infection.

You need to return the minimum number of days Covid will take to infect each and every house in the city. And for the God’s sake if this is impossible, return -1 instead.

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02
Round
Easy
Group Discussion
Duration30 minutes
Interview date9 Aug 2021
Coding problem0

It was again held on evening
5 students at a time were called in and each were given 2 mintues to think about and 3 mintues to talk on the topic and then the last 5 mintues were given for cross questioning. 

The interviewer was unbaised and clear with the rules. He did not take part in the debate but did control the situation as and when any student raised voice.

 

Number of participants in group discussion - 5

03
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration30 minutes
Interview date23 Aug 2021
Coding problem1

It was held in the afternoon.
It was held personally on our personal laptop.
Each and every question were based on resume or topics agreed by me that I know
Coding needed to be done by sharing screen.
The interviewer was friendly and made me comfortable.

1. K-th element of 2 sorted array

Hard
20m average time
80% success
0/120
Asked in companies
MicrosoftCodenationSigmoid

You're given two sorted arrays 'arr1' and 'arr2' of size 'n' and 'm' respectively and an element 'k'.


Find the element that would be at the 'kth' position of the combined sorted array.


Position 'k' is given according to 1 - based indexing, but arrays 'arr1' and 'arr2' are using 0 - based indexing.


For example :
Input: 'arr1' = [2, 3, 45], 'arr2' = [4, 6, 7, 8] and 'k' = 4
Output: 6
Explanation: The merged array will be [2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 45]. The element at position '4' of this array is 6. Hence we return 6.


Problem approach

Binary search algorithm 
It was a basic application of one algorithm 
The interviewer just wanted to check how quick am I in basic coding.

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04
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration15 minutes
Interview date6 Sep 2021
Coding problem1

It was a very quick and easy round
It was a formality basically checking my documents and confirming where do I stay, can I attain the office offline and is it sure for me to accept the offer.

1. Basic HR Questions

Where do you stay?
Will you be able to attain office offline if selected?
Will you relocate if selected?
Are sure to accept the offer letter if offered?

Problem approach

Tip 1 : Be relaxed
Tip 2 : Be confident
Tip 3 : Be polite

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