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SDE - 1

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4 rounds | 3 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 3 months
Topics: DBMS, Data Structures, Algorithms, Puzzles, Operating Systems, OOPS
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Projects do not matter much for this company.
Tip 2 : I did almost all the puzzles from Interviewbit.
Tip 3 : DBMS is really important. Practice queries in SQL thoroughly. You should know the use of limit and top also. It may be asked to write the same query in more than 1 form.
Tip 4 : Practice all the data structures. Questions were simple and you should know the basics of every data structure.

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: Above 8 CGPA, Computer oriented branches
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Don't write anything just for the sake of it.
Tip 2 : If you are writing some project then be thorough with all the details. If you are not much confident, then simply remove it and focus on other subjects.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration75 minutes
Interview date25 Aug 2020
Coding problem1

It was in the evening.
It consisted of 26 questions of easy to hard level.
It consisted of 25 MCQs and only 1 coding problem.

1. Author And Books

Easy
20m average time
80% success
0/40
Asked in companies
AdobeOptum

You are given a certain format of books and their authors.

For example -

NameOfAuthor1 Book1 Book2

NameOfAuthor2 Book1

Your task is to print the given information in the following manner:

1. NameOfAuthor1

    A. Book1

    B. Book2

2. NameOfAuthor2

    A. Book1

You are given a 2D array of strings ‘S’ where each vector is the information about the i-th author, the first index of this vector is the ‘NameOfAuthor’ and the other indexes are the ‘Books’ written by the author. You are supposed to print the Authors and their books in the above mentioned format.

Problem approach

Just take 2 counter variables for authors and their books.
Go through the string and print the author name and their books are followed by a hyphen(-). If a hyphen is not encountered after a name, it means its the name of the other author.

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02
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration15 minutes
Interview date27 Aug 2020
Coding problem1

It was more of CV based round. A brief discussion on projects was there followed by some questions like why optum.

1. Delete a Node from Linked List

Moderate
40m average time
67% success
0/80
Asked in companies
QualcommFreshworksSamsung

You have been given a linked list of integers. Your task is to write a function that deletes a node from a given position, 'POS'.

Note :
Assume that the Indexing for the linked list always starts from 0.

If the position is greater than or equal to the length of the linked list, you should return the same linked list without any change.
Illustration :
The following images depict how the deletion has been performed.

Image-I :

Alt txt

Image-II :

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03
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration15 minutes
Interview date1 Sep 2020
Coding problem1

A short round where some basic dbms questions like procedure, cursor were asked. Then some questions on whether I would prefer working alone or in a team. Where I see myself in 5 years.

1. Colour the Graph

Moderate
20m average time
80% success
0/80
Asked in companies
MeeshoChegg Inc.Microsoft

You are given a graph with 'N' vertices numbered from '1' to 'N' and 'M' edges. You have to colour this graph in two different colours, say blue and red such that no two vertices connected by an edge are of the same colour.

Note :
The given graph may have connected components.
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04
Round
Easy
Telephonic
Duration5 months
Interview date3 Sep 2020
Coding problem0

It was a call from HR in the evening, where I was asked to confirm my marks from school and college. I was told about the CTC and location preference.

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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