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3 rounds | 6 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
Started preparing for Off-Campus Placements in February 2021. Started with coding platforms' must-do questions along with strengthening my concepts like DP and graphs through practicing questions topic-wise.
Application story
Applied after seeing a referral opportunity on LinkedIn. Appeared for test on Glider. Missed one test case out of 4 questions.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
Selected as the manager felt my problem-solving skills were quite good. Being calm in tough situations and continuous hard work paid off.
Preparation
Duration: 6 months
Topics: Data Structures, Operating Systems, Object Oriented Programming, General Tech questions
Tip
Tip

Tip 1: Practice the weak concepts more
Tip 2: Identify patterns and practice questions of all different patterns
Tip 3: Know CS Fundamentals

Application process
Where: Referral
Eligibility: None
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1: Add impact in the form of numbers
Tip 2: Highlight your strong suites

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration90 Minutes
Interview date30 Jun 2021
Coding problem3

Proctored coding test with 3 questions late at night. Movements were monitored.

1. Count Distinct Substrings

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

Given a string 'S', you are supposed to return the number of distinct substrings(including empty substring) of the given string. You should implement the program using a trie.

Note :
A string ‘B’ is a substring of a string ‘A’ if ‘B’ that can be obtained by deletion of, several characters(possibly none) from the start of ‘A’ and several characters(possibly none) from the end of ‘A’. 

Two strings ‘X’ and ‘Y’ are considered different if there is at least one index ‘i’  such that the character of ‘X’ at index ‘i’ is different from the character of ‘Y’ at index ‘i’(X[i]!=Y[i]).
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2. Minimum Number Of Lamps

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

You are given a string 'S' containing dots(.) and asterisks(*) only, where the dot represents free spaces, and the asterisk denotes lamps. A lamp can lighten up its own cell as well as its immediate neighboring cells. You need to determine the minimum number of extra lamps that have to be installed at some free spaces in the string so that the whole string will be illuminated i.e. all the indices of the string can have access to the light of some lamp.

Note :
If a lamp is present at index 'I', then it illuminates index 'I' - 1, 'I' and 'I' + 1.

If a lamp is present at index 0, then it illuminates only 0 and 1.

Given that the length of the string is greater than or equal to 2.

If a lamp is present at the last index, then it illuminates the last and the second last index, given that the length of the string is greater than or equal to 2.

The length of each string is guaranteed to be at least 1.
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3. Roads

Easy
15m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
IntuitFacebook

You live in the country with ‘V’ cities that have ‘E’ roads. You are in city ‘S’ with a car having ‘P’ amount of petrol in it. Roads are bidirectional and consume your petrol. Each road has a description ‘X’, ‘Y’ and ‘Z’, which means city ‘X’ and ‘Y’ have a road between them which consumes ‘Z’ amount of petrol. You want to visit the city ‘D’. Your task is to check if it's possible to visit ‘D’ from ‘S’ using ‘P’ amount of petrol.

For Example:
In the given graph, if we want to reach from node 1 to node 4 with ‘P’ = 10, then our answer is ‘Yes’ because there exists path 1 -> 3 -> 4, which takes 7 amount of petrol, which is less than the given value of ‘P’ so it is possible and hence, the answer is ‘Yes’.

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02
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration45 Minutes
Interview date5 Aug 2021
Coding problem2

Face-to-face screening rounds focused on data structures and algorithms along with computer science fundamentals.

Easy
10m average time
90% success
0/40
Asked in companies
IntuitDisney + HotstarMicrosoft

Given N pairs of parentheses, write a function to generate and print all combinations of well-formed parentheses. That is, you need to generate all possible valid sets of parentheses that can be formed with a given number of pairs.

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2. DBMS Question

Given two tables, one containing the details of students including student ID and another containing details of the results obtained by the students find the names of students who go to greater than 90%. This included a trick question as both the tables didn’t have a common column like student id. (Learn)

03
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration70 Minutes
Interview date6 Aug 2021
Coding problem1

Video call Interview with two interviewers. Along with the hard, DS a problem computer science fundamentals related to scaling were asked.

1. Sliding Maximum

Moderate
25m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
AmazonGeeksforGeeksIntuit

You are given an array 'ARR' of integers of length 'N' and a positive integer 'K'. You need to find the maximum elements for each and every contiguous subarray of size K of the array.

For example
'ARR' =  [3, 4, -1, 1, 5] and 'K' = 3
Output =  [4, 4, 5]

Since the maximum element of the first subarray of length three ([3, 4, -1]) is 4, the maximum element of the second subarray of length three ([4, -1, 1]) is also 4 and the maximum element of the last subarray of length three ([-1, 1, 5]) is 5, so you need to return [4, 4, 5]. 
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