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3 rounds | 4 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 6 months
Topics: Data structures, OOPS, Operating System, DBMS, Algorithms
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Revise oops and os concepts thorughly.
Tip 2 : Optum focuses on projects specially.
Tip 3 : Practice aptitude,logical reasoning and verbal ability questions as well.

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

Tip 1 : Have some genuine project on your resume as they ask questions related to the project
Tip 2 : Do not put false things on resume

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration90 minutes
Interview date16 Sep 2020
Coding problem1

The duration of the test was 1.5 hours and conducted on the mettl platform.This is an online round which consists of 4 sections based on aptitude, logical reasoning, verbal ability and technical MCQ and programming

1. Most Frequent Word

Easy
0/40
Asked in companies
SalesforceIBMGoldman Sachs

You are given a paragraph that may have letters both in lowercase and uppercase, spaces, and punctuation. You have also given a list of banned words. Now your task is to find the most frequent word which is not in the list of banned words. There will always be a solution, and the solution will be unique.

While comparing words, you can ignore whether the letter is lowercase or uppercase. For example, ‘AsK’ and ‘aSK’ are the same. The words will always contain only alphabets or we can say words will be separated by spaces or punctuation. The answer will be in uppercase letters.

The words in the banned list will always be in upper letters and free from punctuation and spaces.

For example :

Paragraph = ‘It's a square SqUare. It's a FLAT flat.’ 
Banned =[FLAT, IT, S]. 
So we can see these words [IT, S, SQUARE, FLAT ]  are most frequent.
Now we will look at to banned list and we can see 3 of the words are banned.
So we have a unique answer SQUARE which has a frequency of 2 and not on the banned list.
Problem approach

For this question, I used Hashmap.

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02
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration45 minutes
Interview date17 Sep 2020
Coding problem2

It was in the morning around 11. The interviewer asked 2 coding questions and CS fundamentals, OOPS and Operating System questions.

1. String pattern matching

Moderate
15m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
BNY MellonHSBCSAP Labs

You are given a pattern in the form of a string and a collection of words. Your task is to determine if the pattern string and the collection of words have the same order.

Note :
The strings are non-empty.

The strings only contain lowercase English letters.
Problem approach

For this question, I used KMP Algorithm.

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2. Pair sum

Easy
15m average time
90% success
0/40
Asked in companies
Media.netExpedia GroupQuikr

You are given an integer array 'ARR' of size 'N' and an integer 'S'. Your task is to return the list of all pairs of elements such that each sum of elements of each pair equals 'S'.

Note:

Each pair should be sorted i.e the first value should be less than or equals to the second value. 

Return the list of pairs sorted in non-decreasing order of their first value. In case if two pairs have the same first value, the pair with a smaller second value should come first.
Problem approach

For this question, I used Hashmap.

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03
Round
Medium
HR Round
Duration30 minutes
Interview date17 Feb 2022
Coding problem1

This is a cultural fitment testing round. HR was very frank and asked standard questions. Then we discussed about my role.

1. Basic HR Question

Why should we hire you?

Problem approach

Tip 1 : The cross-questioning can go intense sometimes, think before you speak.


Tip 2 : Be open-minded and answer whatever you are thinking, in these rounds I feel it is important to have opinion.


Tip 3 : Context of questions can be switched, pay attention to the details. It is okay to ask questions in these round, like what are the projects currently the company is investing, which team you are mentoring. How all is the work environment etc.


Tip 4 : Since everybody in the interview panel is from tech background, here too you can expect some technical questions. No coding in most of the cases but some discussions over the design can surely happen.

Here's your problem of the day

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

Skill covered: Programming

How do you remove whitespace from the start of a string?

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