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3 rounds | 5 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 3 Months
Topics: Arrays, Trees, Heaps, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Graphs, OS, DBMS
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Practice quality questions rather than large quantity of similar questions.
Tip 2 : Try to observe patterns among questions. After sometime, you'll be able to think of a solution to even an unknown problem (seen for first time)
Tip 3 : Practice all 100-150 standard questions, multiple times, till its solution comes very obvious to you. That is the bare minimum with which you should go, for any interview.
Tip 4 : Do projects which has relevance and application in real world too. All details of project like technology stack(also reason of why you chose this specific tech stack), metrics, alternative approaches to solve a problem, etc should be on your fingertips.

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: No Criteria
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Resume should be strictly single page
Tip 2 : Mention relevant things only on your resume. Having cream content on your resume is many times better than having bulk of projects / jargons which you vaguely know about.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration60 minutes
Interview date20 Oct 2019
Coding problem2

Round was scheduled in evening around 6PM - 7PM, in Computer Centre.
Examination environment was pretty decent. There was anxiety, but friends and peers turn out to be an great stress busters in such cases. I mean, whatever you'd expect from an on-campus test :)

1. Majority Element lll

Moderate
10m average time
90% success
0/80
Asked in companies
AdobeSamsungHCL Technologies

You are given an array ‘ARR’ and another integer number ‘K’. Your task is to find the all elements of ‘ARR’ which occur more than or equals to ‘N/K’ times in ‘ARR’ and ‘N’ is the length of array ‘ARR’.

For example:

Given array ‘ARR = { 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 1, 2 ,0}’ and ‘K = 4’

Answer is {3, 4} because ‘3’ occurs ‘4’ times and ‘4’ occurs ‘3’ times which is more than or equals to ‘12/ 4 =3’.

Try solving now

2. Rotting Oranges

Moderate
20m average time
78% success
0/80
Asked in companies
IBMSliceSamsung R&D Institute

You have been given a grid containing some oranges. Each cell of this grid has one of the three integers values:

  • Value 0 - representing an empty cell.
  • Value 1 - representing a fresh orange.
  • Value 2 - representing a rotten orange.
  • Every second, any fresh orange that is adjacent(4-directionally) to a rotten orange becomes rotten.

    Your task is to find out the minimum time after which no cell has a fresh orange. If it's impossible to rot all the fresh oranges then print -1.

    Note:
    1. The grid has 0-based indexing.
    2. A rotten orange can affect the adjacent oranges 4 directionally i.e. Up, Down, Left, Right.
    
    Try solving now
    02
    Round
    Medium
    Face to Face
    Duration60 minutes
    Interview date1 Dec 2019
    Coding problem2

    1. Timing was around 1PM - 2PM in afternoon.
    2. Environment was very cumbersome. Since the hostel lobby was very congested, due to lot of people and small place. Rest all was fine.

    1. Technical Question

    Explain the project on which you worked on while during your internship. What was your contribution in that.

    Problem approach

    Tip 1 : Go through all your projects very throughly.
    Tip 2 : Relevant metrics and reason behind design decisions should be on your fingertips. 
    Tip 3 : Also be prepared to be asked some behavioural questions.

    2. Ways To Make Coin Change

    Moderate
    20m average time
    80% success
    0/80
    Asked in companies
    AmazonCIS - Cyber InfrastructureLinkedIn

    You are given an infinite supply of coins of each of denominations D = {D0, D1, D2, D3, ...... Dn-1}. You need to figure out the total number of ways W, in which you can make a change for value V using coins of denominations from D. Print 0, if a change isn't possible.

    Try solving now
    03
    Round
    Medium
    Video Call
    Duration45 minutes
    Interview date1 Dec 2019
    Coding problem1

    1. This round help after lunch, i.e. around 4PM to 5PM.
    2. Same clumsy and congested lobby due to lot of people.

    1. Basic HR Questions

    What does NoBroker do?

    What keeps you motivated?

    Problem approach

    Tip 1 : Go through some information about the website / product, which the company is building.
    Tip 2 : Do ask clarifying questions.

    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?

    Choose another skill to practice
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