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3 rounds | 6 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
My seniors advised me to practice DSA from the start of B.Tech, but I did not take that seriously. I regretted not taking their advice, and in the third year, I started coding and had to increase practice hours because I started late. By the end of the Third year, I was confident in both DSA and development, but even then, I kept on revising the concepts.
Application story
This company visited my campus for the placement. We just had to upload our resume and fill in all the details in the form. First, they took the online assessment. Later, they called us for the interview rounds.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
The basic reason for my rejection was my not that much strong knowledge of core DSA fundamentals and my problem-solving ability is also not that much good.
Preparation
Duration: 6 months
Topics: Data Structures, Algorithms, OOPS, Dynamic Programming
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Practice popular questions from Arrays, Binary Trees, LinkedLists from CodeStudio's Interview Problems
Tip 2 : Make sure you are aware of calculating the time and space complexity for every problem you're coding.
Tip 3 : Prepare through Mock Interviews to practice explaining your approach while solving in an actual interview.

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

Tip 1 : Describe best of your projects in minimum words. Don't forget to add buzz words like REST APIs/ DB Indexing/ Benchmarking etc if you worked on backend.
Tip 2 : Don't add school achievements like Olympiads or Class Topper in your resume.
Tip 3 : If you've some work experience, put it in a way ,you're marketing yourself. Add terms like 'Created/Owned the Project through entire SDLC.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date22 Apr 2023
Coding problem2

1. Two and Four Wheeler Roads

Hard
48m average time
0/120
Asked in companies
Goldman SachsGartnerWells Fargo

There is a country with 'N' cities and 'M' bidirectional roads of 3 types.

Type 1: Two Wheeler Road, It means only vehicles having two wheels can use this road.
Type 2: Four Wheeler Road, It means only vehicles having four wheels can use this road.
Type 3: Both two and four Wheeler Road, It means this road can be used by both type of vehicles.

The problem is to find the maximum number of roads that can be removed such that a path exists for every pair of cities for each two-wheeler and four-wheeler vehicle.

Note:
1. Roads may form a cycle.

2. The cities do not have multiple same roads i.e all the roads are unique.

3. If every city cannot be reached, then return -1.
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2. Best Time to Buy and Sell

Moderate
20m average time
80% success
0/80
Asked in companies
Natwest GroupMakeMyTripGartner

You are given an array(PRICES) of stock prices for N consecutive days. Your task is to find the maximum profit that you can make by completing as many transactions as you like, where a transaction denotes buying one and selling one share of the stock.

Note:

You must sell the stock before you buy it again.
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02
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date22 Apr 2023
Coding problem2

1. Arithmetic Progression Queries

Ninja
44m average time
50% success
0/200
Asked in companies
SprinklrOptumOYO

Given an integer array(ARR) of size N, the following operations need to be performed:

update(l, r, val) : Add (val + i) to arr[l + i] where, 0 <= i <= r - l.

rangeSum(l, r): return the sum of all elements in the array from index l to r, i.e., the sum of array arr[l...r].

Two type of queries denote these operations:

Type 1: for update(l, r, val) operation.
Type 2: for rangeSum(l, r) operation.

Note: (1 based indexing) for the queries.
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2. Word Search

Moderate
30m average time
60% success
0/80
Asked in companies
OlaGoldman SachsIBM

You are given a 2D board('N' rows and 'M' columns) of characters and a string 'word'.


Your task is to return true if the given word exists in the grid, else return false. The word can be constructed from letters of sequentially adjacent cells, where adjacent cells are horizontally or vertically neighboring.


Note:
The same letter cell should not be used more than once.
For Example:
For a given word “design” and the given 2D board 
[[q’, ‘v’, ‘m’, ‘h’],
 [‘d’, ‘e’, ‘s’, ‘i’],
 [‘d’, ‘g’, ‘f’, ‘g’],
 [‘e’, ‘c’, ‘p’, ‘n’]]

The word design can be formed by sequentially adjacent cells as shown by the highlighted color in the 2nd row and last column.

board

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03
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date22 Apr 2023
Coding problem2

1. Subarray With Given Sum

Moderate
15m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
Thought WorksAdobeInfo Edge India (Naukri.com)

Given an array ARR of N integers and an integer S. The task is to find whether there exists a subarray(positive length) of the given array such that the sum of elements of the subarray equals to S or not. If any subarray is found, return the start and end index (0 based index) of the subarray. Otherwise, consider both the START and END indexes as -1.

Note:

If two or more such subarrays exist, return any subarray.

For Example: If the given array is [1,2,3,4] and the value of S is equal to 7. Then there are two possible subarrays having sums equal to S are [1,2,3] and [3,4].

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Easy
30m average time
80% success
0/40
Asked in companies
OYOThought WorksAdobe

You are given an input string 'S'. Your task is to find and return all possible permutations of the input string.

Note:
1. The input string may contain the same characters, so there will also be the same permutations.

2. The order of permutation does not matter.
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