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SDE - Intern

Elucidata
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4 rounds | 6 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
I started my coding journey in the second year of college where my main focus was on learning DSA and improving my problem-solving skills. I set a target of doing 10 questions daily on leetcode or any other coding platform, I knowingly set a tough target so that I can do at least 4-5 questions daily. If I set the target to 5 then I would be doing 2-3 problems. There were many ups and downs in my journey where I left coding for months and then got back into it. Sailing through all those waves my real preparation started in the 3rd year when companies started coming for internships but I didn't have any projects to put on my resume. So then I started building some projects on web development and along with that I tried to do at least 2 coding problems daily however I was not very consistent in it but just enough to keep me in touch with DSA. Doing DSA, projects, and reading CS Subjects all at once was one hectic of a Job but it was all worth it after landing a Job.
Application story
Elucidata was on campus company and it finished the whole recruitment process including tests and interviews in a single day.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I was selected for the SDE Intern role and was also offered for full time role. I positively anwered all the questions asked in the interview. If I was not very confident in any topic then I just conveyed this to the interviewer and they were kind enough to help me out through that.
Preparation
Duration: 8 months
Topics: Data Structures and Algorithms, OOPS, DBMS, Operating System, HTML, CSS, Javascript, ReactJS
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : If you are following some course or video for any project then try to code along with the instructor. You will encounter many errors but you will learn a lot that way and it will be very helpful in interviews.
Tip 2 : Doing 2 problems daily is better than doing 10 problems one day and not doing anything the whole week. Try to be consistent on whatever you are doing.
Tip 3 : Peer programming does wonders!

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: 6 CGPA
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Be thorough with the projects that you have mentioned because there can be multiple cross questions from your project.
Tip 2 : There should be some actual life application of the project that you build, and its always a good thing to deploy the project and mention the link on resume.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration60 minutes
Interview date14 Nov 2022
Coding problem2

The test was in the morning and consisted of 3 coding questions. We had to give the test online on hackerrank and there was proctoring through google meet.

1. Minimum Number of Platform Needed

Easy
23m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
Thought WorksGoldman SachsIntuit

You are given the arrival and departure times of N trains at a railway station in a day. You need to find the minimum of platforms required for the railway station such that no train waits i.e No train should wait for the platform to be clear or free.

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2. Count Palindrome Words In A String

Easy
15m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
MakeMyTripNagarro SoftwareNavi Technologies

You are given a string S of words. Your task is to find the number of palindrome words in the given string S. A word is called palindrome, if it reads the same backwards as forwards.

Note:
Words are separated by one or more whitespace characters.
For Example:
For the given string “Madam oyo cat”, “Madam”, and “oyo” are the palindrome words 
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02
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date14 Nov 2022
Coding problem1

1. Web Development

A card was given and we had to design the card using HTML and CSS. It included applications of flex, grid etc.

What is a flex and when do you use it?
What is a grid and when do you use it?
Link the CSS file with HTML.

Why use React.js? (Since I used React.js in my resume project)
What is a virtual DOM?
What is JSX?
Questions around tech stack mentioned on resume.

 

03
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date14 Nov 2022
Coding problem2

1. Complete Sum

Easy
15m average time
80% success
0/40
Asked in company
Microsoft

Ninja has an array ‘A’ of size ‘N’. He recently created a topic ‘Complete Sum’ and defined the term ‘completeSum[i]’ = Sum ( A[0] … A[i] ).

Output the complete sum array of array ‘A’.

Example :
N = 3
A = [ 1, 2, 3 ] 

Explanation : 

Complete sum for index 0 is ‘A[0]=1’.

Complete sum for index 1 is ‘A[0] + A[1]’ = 3.

Complete sum for index 2 is ‘A[0] + A[1] + A[2]’ = 6.

So, we output [ 1, 3, 6 ].
Problem approach

Solved this using recursion and wrote the code in javascript.

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2. Theory Questions

Describe all the different ways of writing functions in JavaScript.

Why do we use map, reduce, and filter method in reactjs.

Explain the OOPS concept.
 

04
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration30 minutes
Interview date14 Nov 2022
Coding problem1

1. Basic HR Questions

Why did you use React.js in your project?

What are the real life use cases of your project?

Questions based on past internship experience.

Tell me about a time when you showed initiative and it had a positive effect.

Tell me about a time when you received feedback and how you handled it.

 

 

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