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3 rounds | 3 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 4 months
Topics: Java, MySQL, DSA, Operating System, DBMS, Networking
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Practice interview questions from internet atleast 250 from all topics like Dp, Array, Stack, Graph, Tree
Tip 2 : Go through the CS fundamentals like DBMS, Operating System, Software Engineering 
Tip 3 : Go through mock interviews

Application process
Where: Linkedin
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Mention good projects and have a grasp of it.
Tip 2 : Mention the coding profiles. It really helps you.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration90 minutes
Interview date15 Jun 2021
Coding problem1

1. Longest Increasing Subsequence

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

For a given array with N elements, you need to find the length of the longest subsequence from the array such that all the elements of the subsequence are sorted in strictly increasing order.

Strictly Increasing Sequence is when each term in the sequence is larger than the preceding term.

For example:
[1, 2, 3, 4] is a strictly increasing array, while [2, 1, 4, 3] is not.
Problem approach

It is a dp question in which i have to find the length of longest increasing subsequence. What I have done is created an array of length n and started to travesrse from starting point and if at particular point any value is grater than this value increase its value by one from that position and store max of both current value and now value to the current location. 
Time complexity O(N^2)
Space Complexity O(N)

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02
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration60 minutes
Interview date15 Jun 2021
Coding problem1

1. Longest Common Subsequence

Moderate
39m average time
0/80
Asked in companies
PayPalSliceShareChat

Given two strings, 'S' and 'T' with lengths 'M' and 'N', find the length of the 'Longest Common Subsequence'.

For a string 'str'(per se) of length K, the subsequences are the strings containing characters in the same relative order as they are present in 'str,' but not necessarily contiguous. Subsequences contain all the strings of length varying from 0 to K.

Example :
Subsequences of string "abc" are:  ""(empty string), a, b, c, ab, bc, ac, abc.
Problem approach

What I have done is created an array of size n and started traverse from starting point and for each current value looks its value if its value is greater than the started value than change the current value int created array by max of two that current value,started value plus one. Ine the last find max value from the array.
Time complexity O(N^2)
Space complexity O(N)

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03
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration60 minutes
Interview date15 Jul 2021
Coding problem1

1. House Robber

Moderate
26m average time
0/80
Asked in companies
PayPalExpedia GroupGoldman Sachs

A thief wants to loot houses. He knows the amount of money in each house. He cannot loot two consecutive houses. Find the maximum amount of money he can loot.

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