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Full Stack Engineer

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3 rounds | 7 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
I pursued B. Tech CSE from NIT Jalandhar. I used to practice Geeks for Geeks and Leetcode problems, but could not develop pattern recognition techniques. Then I purchased Competitive Coding course by Coding Ninjas in 2021 mid (taught by Ankush Singla and Parikh Jain), I became much better at coding and gained enough confidence to crack interviews. I joined Paytm as my first company and then switched to Optum United Health Group.
Application story
I created profile on various recruitment platforms and made sure that I updated the profiles regularly. I practiced regularly during that time, and gave a bunch of interviews. I was rejected by some companies, but eventually cracked Optum.
Preparation
Duration: 8 months
Topics: DSA, Full stack web development (MERN stack), Java Springboot, basics of DevOps
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Build projects rather than just following tutorials on youtube
Tip 2 : Do not intend to solve thousands of problems, instead learn patterns and then solve the top questions from any platform.
Tip 3 : Do not try to learn a lot of technologies at once. Master a few of them. It is better to be a master of some instead of a jack of all technologies. 
Tip 4 : Track your progress, make notes and revise consistently. Consistency is the key, especially for learning DSA.

Application process
Where: Naukri
Eligibility: 6+ CGPA
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1: Keep it concise and clean, don’t add too man things that you can’t defend in interview
Tip 2: Mention top skills and projects.
Tip 3: Don’t forget to add linkedin and github profile URLs

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration90
Interview date27 Oct 2021
Coding problem2

1. Diameter Of Binary Tree

Easy
10m average time
90% success
0/40
Asked in companies
PhonePeAmazonPayU

You are given a Binary Tree.


Return the length of the diameter of the tree.


Note :
The diameter of a binary tree is the length of the longest path between any two end nodes in a tree.

The number of edges between two nodes represents the length of the path between them.
Example :
Input: Consider the given binary tree:

Example

Output: 6

Explanation:
Nodes in the diameter are highlighted. The length of the diameter, i.e., the path length, is 6.


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2. Core Subject

30 MCQs related to CS fundamentals including DBMS, OOP, Computer networking, SQL, etc.

02
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration60
Interview date1 Nov 2021
Coding problem4

1. Symmetric Tree

Easy
20m average time
82% success
0/40
Asked in companies
ArcesiumOLX GroupIBM

You are given a binary tree, where the data present in each node is an integer. You have to find whether the given tree is symmetric or not.

Symmetric tree is a binary tree, whose mirror image is exactly the same as the original tree.

For Example:

sym_tree

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2. Largest Number

Easy
15m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
MicrosoftGoldman SachsHCL Technologies

You are given an array arr consisting of ‘N’ integers. Your task is to find the largest number, ‘K’, such that both the values ‘K’ and -‘K’ are present in the given array 'arr'. If no such number exists, then return '-1'.

For example:
Consider ‘arr’ = [1,2,-2,-1], the largest value of ‘K’ is 2, since a negative of 2 is also present in the array. Hence, the answer is 2.
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3. SQL Query

SQL query requiring simple join operations

4. Operating System

Fundamentals of OS for e.g. 
What is a virtual machine? 
What is the kernel?

03
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration30 minutes
Interview date1 Nov 2021
Coding problem1

1. HR Round

1. Situational questions
2. Personality test questions
3. Why do you want to join this company?, etc

Here's your problem of the day

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

Skill covered: Programming

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