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SDE - Intern

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3 rounds | 9 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
Hello everyone, I am Jansirani studying final year of B.Tech IT. I have applied offcampus drive at IBM. Fortunately, I got the online assessment link. Online assessment was contains 3 coding questions in Hackerrank platform. I solved all 3 questions. Afterthat, I got selected for next round. Next round was onsite interview. The interview conducted in bangalore Reva University. There again another coding test conducted in Reva University lab with proper supervision. The test contains 4 coding questions and 1 SQL questions. I solved 3 questions of coding. Afterthat, I got selected for the technical & HR interview (both in single round of interview). In that round, interviewer asked about the resume based questions and coding questions explanation which I solved in the last round.. Finally I got the mail from IBM that I got selected for both intern and full time Offer from IBM.
Application story
I got the link from LinkedIn and I applied it. It directed to ibm job portal. There I applied with all the basic details.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I am good at coding. I solved 3 questions in onsite coding round. And I answered almost all questions which asked in technical interview. I prepared all basics of IT fundamental courses.
Preparation
Duration: 2 Months
Topics: Python, OOPS, DBMS, DSA, NETWORKING, Java
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Be good at one programming language and practice Coding well.
Be good at basics of IT fundamental courses such as DSA, DBMS, OOPS, NETWORKING..
Tip 2 : Prepare resume based on the role you apply.
Tip 3 : Do atleast 2 good projects related to the role you apply

Application process
Where: Other
Eligibility: Final year B.E/B.TECH students are eligible, above 6 CGPA
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Do atleast 2 good Projects 
Tip 2 : mentioned skills in resume should be prepare more.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration150 Minutes
Interview date10 Aug 2022
Coding problem3

1. Longest Common Prefix

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

You are given an array ‘ARR’ consisting of ‘N’ strings. Your task is to find the longest common prefix among all these strings. If there is no common prefix, you have to return an empty string.

A prefix of a string can be defined as a substring obtained after removing some or all characters from the end of the string.

For Example:
Consider ARR = [“coding”, ”codezen”, ”codingninja”, ”coders”]
The longest common prefix among all the given strings is “cod” as it is present as a prefix in all strings. Hence, the answer is “cod”.
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2. Two Sum

Easy
10m average time
90% success
0/40
Asked in companies
MeeshoAdobeInfo Edge India (Naukri.com)

You are given an array of integers 'ARR' of length 'N' and an integer Target. Your task is to return all pairs of elements such that they add up to Target.

Note:

We cannot use the element at a given index twice.

Follow Up:

Try to do this problem in O(N) time complexity. 
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3. Fahrenheit to Celsius

Easy
15m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in company
SYSVINE

Ninja has been assigned to convert temperature from Fahrenheit to Celsius. He has been given a starting Fahrenheit Value (S), ending Fahrenheit value (E), and step size (W). Unfortunately, he does not know how to convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius. Please help him to find the result.

Try solving now
02
Round
Medium
Online Coding Test
Duration120 Minutes
Interview date12 Sep 2022
Coding problem5

*The timing was morning 10 to 12
* The coding round conducted in University's lab with proper supervision.. It was good and silent environment.
* They asked us to keep our phone out from test hall.
* They provided paper for rough work.

1. Star Pattern

Easy
10m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
PayPalInfo Edge India (Naukri.com)LTIMindtree
Pattern for N = 4

picture

The dots represent spaces.
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2. Valid Parentheses

Easy
10m average time
80% success
0/40
Asked in companies
AmazonIntuitOracle

You're given a string 'S' consisting of "{", "}", "(", ")", "[" and "]" .


Return true if the given string 'S' is balanced, else return false.


For example:
'S' = "{}()".

There is always an opening brace before a closing brace i.e. '{' before '}', '(' before ').
So the 'S' is Balanced.
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3. Ninja's Trip

Moderate
0/80
Asked in companies
AmazonAmazon
Ninja is willing to take some time off from his training and planning a year-long tour.
You are given a DAYS array consisting of ‘N’ days when Ninjas will be traveling during the year. Each Day is an integer between 1 to 365 (both inclusive).
Train tickets are sold in three different ways:
A 1-day pass is sold for 'COST'[0] coins,
A 7-day pass is sold for 'COST'[1] coins, and
A 30-day  pass is sold for 'COST'[2] coins.
The passes allow for many days of consecutive travel.
Your task is to help the Ninja to find the minimum number of coins required to complete his tour.
For example,
If Ninja gets a 7-day pass on day 2, then he can travel for 7 days: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
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4. Minimum Cost To Connect Sticks

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

You are given an array/list ‘ARR’ of ‘N’ positive integers where each element describes the length of the stick. You have to connect all sticks into one. At a time, you can join any two sticks by paying a cost of ‘X’ and ‘Y’ where ‘X’ is the length of the first stick and ‘Y’ is the length of the second stick and the new stick we get will have a length equal to (X+Y). You have to find the minimum cost to connect all the sticks into one.

Try solving now

5. SQL Question

Write a query to fetch the EmpFname from the EmployeeInfo table in upper case and use the ALIAS name as EmpName.

Problem approach

Tip 1 : Try to learn and practice SQL queries.
Tip 2 : Practice all famous interview asked query questions.
Tip 3 : Solve more SQL query questions in Hackerrank platform.

03
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration30 minutes
Interview date13 Sep 2022
Coding problem1

* Interview conducted next of Online assessment at morning 10'o clock in Reva University placement building.
*2 panel members were there and communicated very clearly, made me feel us more comfortable.

1. Technical Questions

Questions asked in DBMS,SQL,OOPS, NETWORKING and resume based questions.
 

Problem approach

Tip 1 : Resume based questions asked in technical interview.
Tip 2 : prepare IT fundamentals.
Tip 3 : Do mock interview that will help you to do well in real time interview.

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