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5 rounds | 7 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 2.5 months
Topics: Data Structures, C++, Sorting, Java, Searching, LinkedList, Algorithms
Tip
Tip

Tip 1: Stay clear on concepts like time complexities and space complexities of searching and sorting algorithms,
Tip 2: Stay strong in Computer Science fundamentals like DBMS, Computer Networks, OOPS & SQL Queries, 
Tip 3: Stay clear on what you answer and be prepared for common behavioral questions,
Tip 4: Stay clear on projects you have made, technologies you have used, and why?

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: Top 20 available candidates from CS and IT branch
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1: Clear mention of technologies and skills you are confident in.
Tip 2: Always be prepared with the counter questions from the resume.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Test
Duration90 mins
Interview date9 Nov 2020
Coding problem0

It was a normal aptitude test with all basic Aptitude questions like time & speed, work proportions, etc, along with our Computer Science fundamental questions in OS, Networking & DBMS.

02
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 mins
Interview date3 Feb 2021
Coding problem2

Tell me about yourself (It almost framed my interview)

1. Project based questions

What were your projects and your role in it
As I have a web dev project in Node JS- so they dive deep into the implementation of the database(No SQL as implemented)
How did you implement authentication in your project?

2. Technical questions

What is Binary Search
What is the difference between Array and a linked list

03
Round
Medium
Assignment
Duration150 mins
Interview date17 Feb 2021
Coding problem2

After a week I got a mail from my placement office is that our batch of CSE eligible candidates had been transferred from L & T Constructions to L&T-NxT (which was surely good news), and also we have a coding test in mid-Feb.

So the format of the Coding Test was(3 hrs time):

Three levels- each containing 6 questions (Levels- easy, medium, hard)
Solve any four out of six from each level
* I’m adding questions that I have done, can’t remember all of them

1. Web development based question

Create a web to implement a simple calculator which also shows the history of calculations(History-Didn’t implemented)

Problem approach

Tip 1: Practice basic Data Structure and Algorithmic questions from leetcode
Tip 2: Practice basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript

2. Program to validate IP address

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

You are given the text ‘IPAddress’. Your task is to check if the given text ‘IPAddress’ is a valid ‘IPv4’ or not.

Conditions for a valid ‘IPv4’ are:

1. Text form of ‘IPAddress’ must be ‘a.b.c.d’
2. The values of a,b,c and d can vary from ‘0’ to ‘255’ and both ‘0’ and ‘255’ are inclusive.
Try solving now
04
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 mins
Interview date22 Mar 2021
Coding problem1

Questions (Interviewer was a Platform Developer):
Tell me about yourself
Overall this interview round almost took 60+ minutes. These types of interviews are often enjoyable as they discuss all the CS fundamentals open-ended.

1. Technical questions

What are linear and non-linear data structures?
Which data structure would you implement to store the data of a company? and why? (Union and structure dynamic implementation)
Which concept are you using to define the schema of these data structures? (OOP)
What are the basic concepts of Object-Oriented programming?
Which concept would you choose to extract data from two tables? (Foreign Key & Joins- Discuss Both)
What were your projects and your role in them? (Web Development and Data Schema Implementation role)
He also asked about the concept I have used for text summarization in my NLP project.

05
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration30 mins
Interview date24 Mar 2021
Coding problem2

(Interviewer was a Tech Lead )

1. Basic HR Questions

What are your hobbies? (Cricket and singing), then asked about which player do you like the most? (Virat Kohli)
(Most important question according to me)- I think Virat Kohli plays for himself in the team, so would you also think about playing for yourself rather than playing for the team?

2. Technical questions

What is the difference between C, C++ & Python?
What is the difference between array and vector?
What is a map and how it is implemented in C++?
 

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