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3 rounds | 5 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
I was not a guy fond of coding and programming thing from the starting. In my school, I hated this thing but somehow I got admisison in B.Tech with CSE Stream. So, I knew my life is going to revolve around codes. Than, I started coding and slowly I started liking it after my first internship at a startup, I prepared for job and I got one in Netlink.
Application story
Applied through LinkedIn for this position. HR contacted me after a week. Resume was reviewed by HR and screening was done
Why selected/rejected for the role?
The basic reason for my selection was that I was able to solve coding questions in the interview process with the optimal approach.
Preparation
Duration: 6 months
Topics: Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming, DBMS, OS
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.
Tip 3 : Do at-least 2 good projects and you must know every bit of them.

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: 7 CGPA
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration60 minutes
Interview date22 May 2022
Coding problem2

It was scheduled on hackerrank platform. Two coding questions were there, the interviewer was very polite and he explained to me the extract of the questions.

1. Duplicate In Array

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

You are given an array ‘ARR’ of size ‘N’ containing each number between 1 and ‘N’ - 1 at least once. There is a single integer value that is present in the array twice. Your task is to find the duplicate integer value present in the array.

For example:

Consider ARR = [1, 2, 3, 4, 4], the duplicate integer value present in the array is 4. Hence, the answer is 4 in this case.
Note :
A duplicate number is always present in the given array.
Try solving now

2. Palindromic Substrings

Moderate
20m average time
80% success
0/80
Asked in companies
MicrosoftSalesforceAmazon

You have been given a string STR. Your task is to find the total number of palindromic substrings of STR.

Example :
If the input string is "abbc", then all the possible palindromic substrings would be: ["a", "b", "b", c", "bb"] and hence, the output will be 5 since we have 5 substrings in total which form a palindrome.
Note :
A string is said to be a 'Palindrome' if it is read the same forwards and backwards. 
For example, “abba” is a palindrome, but “abbc” is not.

A 'Substring' is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string. 
For example, "a", "b", "c", "ab", "bc", "abc" are substrings of "abc".
Try solving now
02
Round
Easy
Face to Face
Duration50 minutes
Interview date29 May 2022
Coding problem2

This was technical round number second. A coding question which was really difficult to solve and some questions from DBMS were part of this round.

1. DBMS Questions

What is Join?
What is Concatenation?
Explain delete and drop function.

2. Co-prime Twins

Hard
70m average time
40% success
0/120
Asked in companies
Tekion CorpNetlink

A pair of positive integers (a, b) is said to be a coprime-twin pair, if for all positive integers x, both a and b and are coprime to x or both and are not coprime to x. Formally, 2 distinct positive integers a and b can form a coprime-twin pair if and only if S(a) = S(b), where S(x) denotes the set of all positive integers that are coprime to x.

For example:
2 and 4 are coprime-twin pairs.
1 and 2 are not coprime-twin pairs.


The score of a sequence a1, a2, .. an is the number of indices (i, j) such that i < j and the pair (ai, aj) forms a coprime-twin pair.

You are given an array A of positive integers and Q queries of the form L, R. For each query, determine the score of the subarray [L,  R] inclusive.

Note: A subarray is a contiguous non-empty segment of the array. 
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03
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration15 minutes
Interview date10 Jun 2022
Coding problem1

It was a HR round well passed, it just seemed like a normal discussion with the HR.

1. Basic HR Questions

Tell me about your self
Explain project
Why you want to work with us?
What is your future plan?

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 recursion?

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