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SDE - 1

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3 rounds | 5 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
I was unaware of this coding stuff till my school life. I got to know about the field of computer science in my class 11th. I found it intresting and decided that I will pursue my career in the field of computer science. I took admission in B.Tech CSE and learned the various concepts like DSA and all.
Application story
I got a message in my telegram group about the company visiting our campus for the hiring of SDE-1. As, I was in the fourth year, it was sure that I am going to apply for it. I started preparing accordingly and got selected at last.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I think I was on point with my coding solutions to the questions asked in the interviews. I provided the optimal solutions and I was giving correct explanations to some theory questions asked.
Preparation
Duration: 7 months
Topics: Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Aptitude, OOPS
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.
Tip 3 : Do at-least 2 good projects and you must know every bit of them.

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: 7 CGPA
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration60 minutes
Interview date12 Oct 2022
Coding problem2

1. K Largest Element

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

You are given an unsorted array containing ‘N’ integers. You need to find ‘K’ largest elements from the given array. Also, you need to return the elements in non-decreasing order.

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2. Valid Sudoku

Moderate
40m average time
60% success
0/80
Asked in companies
QualcommUberDirecti

You have been given a 9 X 9 2D matrix 'MATRIX' with some cells filled with digits(1 - 9), and some empty cells (denoted by 0).

You need to find whether there exists a way to fill all the empty cells with some digit(1 - 9) such that the final matrix is a valid Sudoku solution.

A Sudoku solution must satisfy all the following conditions-

1. Each of the digits 1 - 9 must occur exactly once in each row.
2. Each of the digits 1 - 9 must occur exactly once in each column.
3. Each of the digits 1 - 9 must occur exactly once in each of the 9, 3 x 3 sub-matrices of the matrix.
Note
1. There will always be a cell in the matrix which is empty.
2. The given initial matrix will always be consistent according to the rules mentioned in the problem statement.
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02
Round
Easy
Face to Face
Duration50 minutes
Interview date18 Oct 2022
Coding problem2

1. Check Bipartite Graph

Moderate
50m average time
50% success
0/80
Asked in companies
UberWalmarteBay

Given a graph, check whether the graph is bipartite or not. Your function should return true if the given graph's vertices can be divided into two independent sets, ‘U’ and ‘V’ such that every edge (‘u’, ‘v’) either connects a vertex from ‘U’ to ‘V’ or a vertex from ‘V’ to ‘U’.

You are given a 2D array ‘edges’ which contains 0 and 1, where ‘edges[i][j]’ = 1 denotes a bi-directional edge from ‘i’ to ‘j’.

Note:
If edges[i][j] = 1, that implies there is a bi-directional edge between ‘i’ and ‘j’, that means there exists both edges from ‘i’ to ‘j’ and to ‘j’ to ‘i’.

For example

Given:
‘N’ = 3
‘edges’ = [[0, 1, 1], [0, 0, 1], [0,0,0]]. 

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2. House Robber

Moderate
26m average time
0/80
Asked in companies
SamsungAmazonQuikr

A thief wants to loot houses. He knows the amount of money in each house. He cannot loot two consecutive houses. Find the maximum amount of money he can loot.

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03
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration20 minutes
Interview date27 Oct 2022
Coding problem1

1. Basic HR Questions

Introduce yourself
Why do you want to join us?
What are your hobbies?
What do you think makes you a better choice than the other candidates?

Here's your problem of the day

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

Skill covered: Programming

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