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SDE - 2

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5 rounds | 5 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 2.5 months
Topics: Data Structures(trees and linkedList is must) , Algorithms, Dynamic Programming, Low Level System Design, Databases, OOPs
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Practice DSA question as much as you can (mostly focus on easy to medium) once you fell confident in these you might go for higher levels. 
Tip 2 : Be confident during the interview about your solution and try to start discussing the questions and your solution with a naive approach at first barring that there are any time restrictions and you feel lagging. For practice, you can prefer Coding Ninjas and Geeks For Geeks/Leetcode

Application process
Where: Other
Eligibility: Role specific, nothing generic as such but a good resume is enough
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Keep it short and simple. Mention the academic and professional projects you've done only if you have good grip on them and not to forget to revise them if it is mentioned in resume.
Tip 2 : Go through job description thoroughly and try to present you skills in resume that it suits the demand of role. like if you already have some work-ex you can mention Performance improvements you did for eg- reducing latency etc

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration90 minutes
Interview date28 Jun 2022
Coding problem1

3 coding question were asked i completed all three but people who do even 2 usually get through. I remember only one.

1. Guess Price

Easy
10m average time
63% success
0/40
Asked in companies
Expedia GroupZSWipro infotech

Your friends gifted you a lot of things on your birthday, and now it's your turn to give some return gifts to them. You went to a gift store and decided to buy some Binary Search Trees (BST).

There is no salesperson in the store. So you are supposed to guess the price of a given BST, which is the minimum value in its nodes.

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02
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date4 Jul 2022
Coding problem1

 One of the questions was deleting nth node from end of the linked list.

1. Delete Kth node From End

Moderate
15m average time
95% success
0/80
Asked in companies
Expedia GroupSquadstackAmazon

You have been given a singly Linked List of 'N' nodes with integer data and an integer 'K'.


Your task is to remove the 'K'th node from the end of the given Linked List and return the head of the modified linked list.


Example:
Input : 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 'NULL'  and  'K' = 2
Output: 1 -> 2 -> 4 -> 'NULL'
Explanation:
After removing the second node from the end, the linked list become 1 -> 2 -> 4 -> 'NULL'.

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03
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date6 Oct 2022
Coding problem1

Two coding questions were asked I remember 1.

1. Trapping Rain Water

Moderate
15m average time
80% success
0/80
Asked in companies
HCL TechnologiesCiti BankAtlassian

You have been given a long type array/list 'arr’ of size 'n’.


It represents an elevation map wherein 'arr[i]’ denotes the elevation of the 'ith' bar.



Note :
The width of each bar is the same and is equal to 1.
Example:
Input: ‘n’ = 6, ‘arr’ = [3, 0, 0, 2, 0, 4].

Output: 10

Explanation: Refer to the image for better comprehension:

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Note :
You don't need to print anything. It has already been taken care of. Just implement the given function.
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04
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date10 Oct 2022
Coding problem1

1. System Design Question

This was low level design round where I was asked to design bookMyShow search feature and some other discussion around "cancel order" feature in any ordering system. Mostly focus is on your classes/interfaces and apis and a bit on database design as well.

05
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration60 minute
Interview date12 Oct 2022
Coding problem1

This was the last round and was managerial with some behavioural as well as bit of technical on previous projects/works resume based questions along with few technical discussions on tools/technology you have used in your past project. 

1. Basic HR Questions

Why should we hire you?

What keeps you motivated?

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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