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Senior Software Engineer

Google inc
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4 rounds | 4 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 8 months
Topics: System Design, OOPS, Data Structures, String Algorithms, Full Stack Development.
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Tip 1 : Have faith in yourself
Tip 2 : Whatever you write in your resume, know it in and out.
Tip 3 : Do not feel afraid to ask your recruiter about the feedback and type of interview rounds scheduled.

Application process
Where: Referral
Eligibility: NA
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Make sure your project stands out amongst the crowd
Tip 2 : Mention your achievements and along with work in previous job experience.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Test
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date2 Nov 2019
Coding problem1

1. Convert To Lower Case

Easy
0/40
Asked in companies
Livekeeping (An IndiaMART Company)AmazonGoogle inc

You are given a string ‘str’, your task is to convert all the characters of the string into lowercase letters.

For example:
You are given, ‘str’ = ‘AbcdEfgh’, in this string if you convert all the characters into lowercase, the string will be ‘abcdefgg’. Hence it is the answer.
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02
Round
Easy
Face to Face
Duration90 minutes
Interview date5 Dec 2020
Coding problem1

1. Minimum Steps

Moderate
20m average time
80% success
0/80
Asked in companies
DirectiOracleWells Fargo

You are given an array ‘ARR’ consisting of ‘N’ integers. Your task is to make all the numbers equal. You decrease one of the largest numbers present in the array into a number that is just lower than the maximum number in one step.

For example:
You are given ‘ARR’ = [5, 2, 3]
In the first step, you can change 5 to 3, so the new array is [3, 2,3].

In the second step, you can change the 3 to 2, then the array is [2, 2,3].

In the third step, you can change the 3 to 2, then the array is [2, 2, 2] 

Hence the answer is 3.
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03
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration90 Minutes
Interview date12 Dec 2020
Coding problem1

1. System Design Question

Design a system such that google developer gets access to user's data for fixing the bug in the app.

04
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration90 Minutes
Interview date19 Dec 2020
Coding problem1

1. Ninja And The Game Of Words

Moderate
20m average time
80% success
0/80
Asked in companies
MicrosoftHCL TechnologiesGoldman Sachs

Ninja and his friend playing a game in which his friend gave him a string ‘STR’ that can contain spaces and a List/Array ‘WORDS’ which is of type string containing ‘N’ strings of words. Ninja’s task is to count the occurrences of all the words in ‘STR’.

For Example:

‘STR’ = “i am a Ninja”, ‘N’ = 3 and ‘WORDS[]’ = [“Ninja”,”a”,”am”]. Then the output should be [1,1,1]. Because the occurrence of “Ninja” in ‘STR’ is 1 and the occurrence of “a” in ‘STR’ is 1.Similarly occurrence of “am” is 1.

Note:

The output should be in the same order as given in ‘WORDS’.

Can you help Ninja to generate all valid strings from ‘STR’ by minimum removals?

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