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3 rounds | 6 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 8 months
Topics: Data Structures and Algorithms, OOPS, System Design, DBMS, Operating System, Pointers, Hashing
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Practice all DSA questions from interview bit
Tip 2 : Do Atleast 3 project one should be major, if it's in web dev it would be beneficial.
Tip 3 : Should be good in communication skills

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: Computer science and it's related branch
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Not more than 1 page
Tip 2 : Have atleast 3 projects with some achievement in coding contest and your coding handle should be mentioned like codechef, codeforces etc
Tip 3 : Try to keep only those things in resume in which you find yourself comfortable with

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration100 minutes
Interview date4 Oct 2020
Coding problem2

Test started at 04:00 PM sharp and complete the same by 06:00 PM. 
The test duration is 1 hour 40 minutes.
Environment (Amcat) is user friendly.
Web cam and mic is enabled

1. Capacity To Ship Packages Within D Days

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

You are the owner of a Shipment company. You use conveyor belts to ship packages from one port to another. The packages must be shipped within 'd' days.


The weights of the packages are given in an array 'weights'. The packages are loaded on the conveyor belts every day in the same order as they appear in the array. The loaded weights must not exceed the maximum weight capacity of the ship.


Find out the least-weight capacity so that you can ship all the packages within 'd' days.

Try solving now

2. Count Distinct Element in Every K Size Window

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

You are given an array ‘ARR’ of size ‘N’ and an integer ‘K’. Your task is to find the total number of distinct elements present in every ‘K’ sized window of the array. A ‘K’ sized window can also be viewed as a series of continuous ‘K’ elements present in the sequence.

Note:
1. The size of ‘ARR’ will always be greater than or equal to the ‘K’.
2. Here window refers to a subarray of ‘ARR’. Hence ‘K’ sized window means a subarray of size ‘K’.
3. You are not required to print the output explicitly. It has already been taken care of. Just implement the function and return an array of the count of all distinct elements in the ‘K’ size window.

Example

Consider ARR = [ 1, 2, 1, 3, 4, 2, 3 ] and K = 3.

subsequence

As per the given input, we have a sequence of numbers of length 7, and we need to find the number of distinct elements present in all the windows of size 3.

Window-1 has three elements { 1, 2, 1 } and only two elements { 1, 2 } are distinct because 1 is repeating two times.
Window-2 has three elements { 2, 1, 3 } and all three elements are distinct { 2, 1, 3 }.
Window-3 has three elements { 1, 3, 4 } and all three elements are distinct { 1, 3, 4 }.
Window-4 has three elements { 3, 4, 2 } and all three elements are distinct { 3, 4, 2 }.
Window-5 has three elements { 4, 2, 3 } and all three elements are distinct { 4, 2, 3 }.

Hence, the count of distinct elements in all K sized windows is { 2, 3, 3, 3, 3 }.
Problem approach

Tip 1 : Simple sliding window problem
 

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02
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration90 minutes
Interview date12 Oct 2020
Coding problem2

Interview stared at 11:00 am and went for 90 min.
Interview was held in zoom
Environment was very much user friendly

1. Two Sum in a BST

Moderate
30m average time
65% success
0/80
Asked in companies
SprinklrAmazonMorgan Stanley

You have been given a Binary Search Tree and a target value. You need to find out whether there exists a pair of node values in the BST, such that their sum is equal to the target value.

A binary search tree (BST), also called an ordered or sorted binary tree, is a rooted binary tree whose internal nodes each store a value greater than all the values keys in the node's left subtree and less than those in its right subtree.

Follow Up:
Can you solve this in O(N) time, and O(H) space complexity?
Problem approach

Tip 1 : Practise questions on tree and graph
 

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2. Find Path

Hard
10m average time
90% success
0/120
Asked in companies
SamsungMorgan StanleyGameskraft

You are given a tree with 'N' nodes with 'N' - 1 distinct edge. You are also given two nodes 'N1' and 'N2'. You have to find and print the shortest path between 'N1' and 'N2'.

A tree data structure is a nonlinear hierarchical data structure that consists of nodes connected by edges.

Note

1. There is no cycle present in a tree.
2. All values in the tree are unique.
3. Both nodes will always exist in the tree.
Problem approach

Tip 1 : I used graph traversal with an array
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03
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration60 minutes
Interview date15 Oct 2020
Coding problem2

Hr round started at 5:00 pm and went for 60 minutes
It was held on zoom
Interviewer was very much friendly he started with a normal talk to make things light and easy ongoing.

1. General Questions

Tell me about yourself

Problem approach

Tip 1 : You should tell about your education background
Tip 2 : What are your interests

2. General Questions

Why Morgan Stanley?

Problem approach

Read about the company

Here's your problem of the day

Solving this problem will increase your chance to get selected in this company

Skill covered: Programming

Which array operation has O(n) worst-case time complexity?

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