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SDE - 1
Hike
4 rounds | 3 Coding
problems
Selected Interview preparation journey
Preparation
Duration: 8 months
Topics: DSA(TREE, LINKED LIST , DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING, BINARY SEARCH, BIT MANIPULATION, DBMS, OS, MULTITHREADING, SYNCHRONISATION, COMPUTER NETWORK
Tip 1 : Practice medium level DSA questions.
Tip 2 : Aptitude and Reasoning
Tip 3 : Focus on theory subjects , (OOPS,Multithreading and Synchronisation is must)
Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: Above 6 CGPA
Tip 1 : PROJECTS
Tip 2 : Links for projects
Tip 3 : You must know each and everything you mentioned in your resume.
Interview rounds
01
Round
Hard
Online Coding Interview
Duration90 Minutes
Interview date28 Jan 2022
Coding problem0
6 MEDIUM LEVEL CODING QUESTION based on Linked List , Dynamic Programming , Tree.
If you have practice enough you can easily solve them in the given time span.
02
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date31 Jan 2022
Coding problem2
2 medium level DSA based questions was asked in this round.
1. Running Median
Hard
46m average time
50% success
0/120
Asked in companies
You are given a stream of 'N' integers. For every 'i-th' integer added to the running list of integers, print the resulting median.
Print only the integer part of the median.
Problem approach
Initially I tried to solve it using binary search and linked list.
Interviewer asked me Time complexity and told me to find optimised solution.
Than I explained my approach using Priority Queue.
Interviewer was interested only in approach and then asked me questions regarding priority queue and Max heaps.
2. Word Break-1
Hard
36m average time
55% success
0/120
Asked in companies
You are given a string 's', and a dictionary of words 'dict' containing 'n' words. Your task is to add spaces in 's' to form valid sentences, where each word is a word from the dictionary.
You need to return all possible sentences that can be formed using the given dictionary.
Note :
The same word from a dictionary can be used as many times as possible to make sentences.
Problem approach
I have solved this problem before so I took some time and than explained the solution .
Then Interviewer asked me to write the code on Google sheets.
03
Round
Hard
Face to Face
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date31 Jan 2022
Coding problem0
This round was based on DSA and theory concepts.
Initially Interviewer gave me a medium level DSA questions.
Then he asked me theory questions based on OOPS ,OS, DBMS , MULTITHREADING, SYNCHRONISATION
He was more interested in examples. Explain each topic with the help of examples.
04
Round
Hard
Face to Face
Duration40 Minutes
Interview date31 Jan 2022
Coding problem1
Interviewer asked me to implement a simple multithreading based coding question.
This was the most important round.
1. Java Question
Producer-Consumer solution using threads in Java
Problem approach
Initially I have no idea how to solve the problem.
Interviewer gave me some hints even correct me when ever I go in wrong direction.
Interviewer was more interested in problem solving skills and understanding of concepts as I make some mistakes in syntax part.
Here's your problem of the day 
Solving this problem will increase your chance to get selected in this company
Skill covered: Programming
What is the purpose of the return keyword?
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