Associate Software Engineer

You have been given 'N' ropes of different lengths, we need to connect these ropes into one rope. The cost to connect two ropes is equal to sum of their lengths. We need to connect the ropes with minimum cost.

The test-data is such that the result will fit into a 32-bit integer.

You are given a 'Nx3' 2-D array 'Jobs' describing 'N' jobs where 'Jobs[i][0]' denotes the id of 'i-th' job, 'Jobs[i][1]' denotes the deadline of 'i-th' job, and 'Jobs[i][2]' denotes the profit associated with 'i-th job'.

You will make a particular profit if you complete the job within the deadline associated with it. Each job takes 1 unit of time to be completed, and you can schedule only one job at a particular time.

Return the number of jobs to be done to get maximum profit.

Note :

If a particular job has a deadline 'x', it means that it needs to be completed at any time before 'x'.

Assume that the start time is 0.

For Example :

'N' = 3, Jobs = [[1, 1, 30], [2, 3, 40], [3, 2, 10]].

All the jobs have different deadlines. So we can complete all the jobs.

At time 0-1, Job 1 will complete.
At time 1-2, Job 3 will complete.
At time 2-3, Job 2 will complete.

So our answer is [3 80].

You are given a Singly Linked List of integers and a reference to the node to be deleted. Every node of the Linked List has a unique value written on it. Your task is to delete that node from the linked list.

A singly linked list is a linear data structure in which we can traverse only in one direction i.e. from Head to Tail. It consists of several nodes where each node contains some data and a reference to the next node.

Note:

• The reference to the head of the linked list is not given.
• The node to be deleted is not a tail node.
• The value of each node in the Linked List is unique.
• It is guaranteed that the node to be deleted is present in the linked list.

A sample Linked List-

Given a sequence of numbers ‘ARR’. Your task is to return a sorted sequence of ‘ARR’ in non-descending order with help of the merge sort algorithm.

Example :

Merge Sort Algorithm -

Merge sort is a Divide and Conquer based Algorithm. It divides the input array into two-parts, until the size of the input array is not ‘1’. In the return part, it will merge two sorted arrays a return a whole merged sorted array.

The above illustrates shows how merge sort works.

Note :

It is compulsory to use the ‘Merge Sort’ algorithm.

You are given an array/list ‘ARR’ of ‘N’ positive integers and an integer ‘K’. Your task is to group all the array elements with ‘K-th’ bit (rightmost bit is ‘1st’ bit) equal to 0 followed by all the elements with ‘K-th’ bit equal to 1.

Note 1: The relative order inside both the groups should remain as it was in the input.

Note 2: You have to return the modified array/list..

For Example :

If ‘ARR’ is {1,2,3,4} and ‘K’ = 1, then after modification, ‘ARR’ should be {2,4,1,3} because ‘K-th’ (‘K’ = 1) of {2,4} is 0 and ‘K-th’ bit of {1,3} is 1.

A birthday cake has to be equally divided into 8 equal pieces in exactly 3 cuts. Determine the way to make this division possible.
 

1. What is deadlock? Explain a real-time scenario where you faced a deadlock while developing your projects. Also, explain how did you solve it.
2. What is scheduling? How processes are scheduled? What are the different algorithms?
3. Explain what is Round-robin scheduling.

1. He asked me what databases have you worked on?
2. What type of database is MySQL? I answered RDBMS.
He asked me to show the database design of a few of my projects. I did. Later he asked what is meant by RDBMS and how do you establish relationships I was explaining the same thing again later I told him through primary and foreign keys and he said this is what I was expecting for. He asked me whether I know what is NoSQL.I gave him the definition which I knew and he was satisfied.
3. He asked me to show the database design of another project and asked me how did you normalize the tables.
4.What are wildcards in dbms?
5. Explain normalization.

What are the three things that are most important for you in a job? 

What was the toughest decision you ever had to make?