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4 rounds | 9 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
My name is Shubham, My journey to securing an interview with EY has been a culmination of hard work, perseverance, and dedication. Starting with the basics, i developed a strong foundation and continuously worked towards enhancing for skills and knowledge. Throughout from my previous company to coming in EY was not easy journey at all. It took me around 6 month for applying in many companies, preparing for my interview all this was long journey.
Application story
I applied in EY company from my common mutual of Linkedin who was working in EY previously. Later after some days I recieved interview call and email from EY.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
It was overall 4 round and I cleared all those round and I got offer letter, I was selected for Ey because I'm having all those skills what Ey was expecting in mine
Preparation
Duration: 6 months
Topics: The SDE 2 role requires a strong understanding of programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, or similar. Candidates should have experience in designing and implementing complex software systems, algorithms, and data structures. Additionally, knowledge of software development, problem solving skills, cloud computing
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : whatever you are preparing implement by solving problems
Tip 2 : do some projects

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: No
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1: don't mention false things
Tip 2: keep ur resume short

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Test
Duration30 minutes
Interview date16 Mar 2023
Coding problem3

This round timing was 3 Pm and this round I was asked my previous projects and coding questions

1. HR Questions

About my previous companies work experience, my previous projects, what was my roll, what chalanges i faced while working and all.

2. Sort Array

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

You are given an array consisting of 'N' positive integers where each integer is either 0 or 1 or 2. Your task is to sort the given array in non-decreasing order.

Note :
1. The array consists of only 3 distinct integers 0, 1, 2.
2. The array is non-empty.
Problem approach

1. Define a function that takes a list of integers as an input parameter.
2. Use nested loops to compare adjacent elements in the list and swap them if the previous element is smaller than the current element.
3. Repeat this process until the list is sorted in descending order. Return the sorted list.

Try solving now

3. First and Last Position of an element in Sorted Array

Easy
20m average time
80% success
0/40
Asked in companies
AmazonErnst & Young (EY)Google inc

You are given a non-decreasing array 'arr' consisting of 'n' integers and an integer 'x'. You need to find the first and last position of 'x' in the array.


Note:
1. The array follows 0-based indexing, so you need to return 0-based indices.
2. If 'x' is not present in the array, return {-1 -1}.
3. If 'x' is only present once in the array, the first and last position of its occurrence will be the same.


Example:
Input:  arr = [1, 2, 4, 4, 5],  x = 4

Output: 2 3

Explanation: The given array’s 0-based indexing is as follows:
 1      2     4     4     5
 ↓      ↓     ↓     ↓     ↓
 0      1     2     3     4

So, the first occurrence of 4 is at index 2, and the last occurrence of 4 is at index 3.
Problem approach

Tip 1:Define a function that takes a list of integers and a search key as input parameters.
Tip 2:Initialize two pointers, one at the beginning and one at the end of the list.
Tip 3:Use a while loop to iterate through the list, checking if the current element matches the search key. If a match is found, return the index of the current element. If no match is found, return -1.

Try solving now
02
Round
Medium
Online Coding Test
Duration40 minutes
Interview date17 Mar 2023
Coding problem2

This was My 2nd round, and in this round I was asked questions from DSA and dbms

1. Balanced parentheses

Moderate
10m average time
90% success
0/80
Asked in companies
SalesforceAmazonMicrosoft

Given an integer ‘N’ representing the number of pairs of parentheses, Find all the possible combinations of balanced parentheses with the given number of pairs of parentheses.

Note :

Conditions for valid parentheses:
1. All open brackets must be closed by the closing brackets.

2. Open brackets must be closed in the correct order.

For Example :

()()()() is a valid parentheses.
)()()( is not a valid parentheses.
Problem approach

Tip 1:Define a function that takes a string as an input parameter.
Tip 2:Initialize an empty stack and iterate through each character in the string.
Tip 3:If the current character is an opening bracket, push it onto the stack. If it is a closing bracket, check if it matches the top element of the stack. If there is a match, pop the top element from the stack. If there is no match or the stack is empty, the string is not balanced. After iterating through all characters, if the stack is empty, the string is balanced.

Try solving now

2. DBMS Question

They're have Given 3 tables, I need to perform all types of joins, rownum and many more etc.

03
Round
Easy
Online Coding Test
Duration30 minutes
Interview date17 Mar 2023
Coding problem3

This is 3rd technical round and this round was about cloud computing.

1. Technical Questions

What is the difference between horizontal scaling and vertical scaling in cloud computing? 

What is serverless computing, and how does it differ from traditional cloud computing?

Problem approach

Tip 1: I've Define about horizontal scaling
Tip 2: give examples on them
Tip 3: same type I've given answer on different types of cloud computing

2. Technical question

How can I secure my AWS infrastructure against external threats?

Problem approach

Tip 1:Use IAM
Tip 2: Enable encryption
Tip 3:aws security services

3. Technical Question

How can I optimize the cost of my AWS infrastructure?

Problem approach

Tip 1: Use AWS cost explorer
Tip 2: use AWS cost anamoly detection

04
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration20 minutes
Interview date20 Mar 2023
Coding problem1

This was HR round

1. Basic HR Questions

About my past experience, previous projects and all

Here's your problem of the day

Solving this problem will increase your chance to get selected in this company

Skill covered: Programming

How do you remove whitespace from the start of a string?

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