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SDE - Intern

Media.net
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3 rounds | 2 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 4 Months
Topics: Data Strutures, OOPS, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Algorithms, Projects Summary
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Practice a lot of DSA questions (atleast 150 Medium) and the questions should be a good balance of easy medium and hard questions.
Tip 2 : If you have time of Competitive Programming please do it , Competitive Programming always helps people to clear OA and if you have a good hand on experience in competitive programming then doing DSA will be lot more easier for you.
Tip 3 : Spend a good amount of time creating good connections on Linkedin because at the end you are going to get Job Links and referrals from Linkedin.

Application process
Where: Linkedin
Eligibility: No criteria
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Keep it short and simple 
Tip 2 : Don't bloat your resume with too much designs or fancy fonts.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration90 minutes
Interview date11 May 2021
Coding problem1

There were three problems and 2 of them were medium and 1 was hard.
I was able to solve 1 medium comletely and got partial points of rest of two.
There problems are pretty good and never repeating.

I don't remember all the problems.

1. Interesting Alphabets

Easy
0/40
Asked in companies
Red HatMedia.net
Pattern for N = 5
E
DE
CDE
BCDE
ABCDE
Try solving now
02
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date14 May 2021
Coding problem1

The Interview was scheduled in afternoon and inteviewer came and he elaborated what work he is doing in media.net and how long has been since he is working in media.net then i introduced my self.
After introductions interviewer said that he will give me one question and i have to explain him my best possible solution 
and after that i have to write code on google docs sheet.
Then interviewer explained the problem to me and also he explained few test cases.

1. Pair Sum

Easy
15m average time
90% success
0/40
Asked in companies
OpenTextPhone PeGoogle

You are given an integer array 'ARR' of size 'N' and an integer 'S'. Your task is to return the list of all pairs of elements such that each sum of elements of each pair equals 'S'.

Note:

Each pair should be sorted i.e the first value should be less than or equals to the second value. 

Return the list of pairs sorted in non-decreasing order of their first value. In case if two pairs have the same first value, the pair with a smaller second value should come first.
Try solving now
04
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date18 May 2021
Coding problem0

This round was an open ended problem discussion round and this was by far by worst interview.
The round was so bad that at a point in interview i was thinking of leaving the interview.
So Interview started with the Introduction of interviewer.
The interviewer was having 7 years of work experience in media.net.
After his introduction i introduced myself to him and he asked few follow up questions based on my resume projects and tech stack.
Then he asked me an open ended question :
I was given a lattitue and longitude of a place and i had to design algorithm for trending feed generation for twitter for that Area and there will be a weight associated with each twitter post which will represent trending score of that post , higher treding score means better post.
I had never faced system design or open ended problem before this interview so my brain just freezed and i was not able to give his even brute force solution and after some time he started talking about scale and all and i was just sitting blank for starting 15-20 minutes.
So i got few learnings from this round that everyone should have basic idea of system design and scale estimations before appearing for interviews of good companies , that will for sure will be a good weapon to drive your interview in a positive direction.

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 default value of int data type?

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