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4 rounds | 6 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 3 Months
Topics: Oops, DBMS, OS, DSA, Managerial questions
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : DSA is the most important part as initial rounds are completely dependent on DSA. 
Tip 2 : Majority of companies focus on DP and trees questions. It is good to practice questions through code studio as questions generally follow similar pattern.
Tip 3 : For managerial rounds it is important to have indepth knowledge of your projects and be confident in answering behavioral questions.

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

Tip 1 : Keep it within one page and try to highlight your previous experiences
Tip 2 : Make sure to add at least 2-4 line summary of the project that you have made. It is always good to add a working website of your project.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration70 minutes
Interview date18 Aug 2020
Coding problem1

2 coding questions of medium level

1. Distance between two nodes of a Tree

Moderate
25m average time
60% success
0/80
Asked in companies
AmazonOracleJP Morgan

Given a binary tree and the value of two nodes, find the distance between the given two nodes of the Binary Tree.

Distance between two nodes is defined as the minimum number of edges in the path from one node to another.

Problem approach

After understanding the statement the problem could be solved by finding the minimum distance between two nodes. 
I first found LCA of the two nodes then got the minimum distance from there.

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02
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration105 minutes
Interview date24 Aug 2020
Coding problem2

The interview started with some questions regarding oops and c++ fundamentals. 
Then there was theoretical doscussion on some graphs topics.
2 dsa questions were asked on code pair.

1. Inorder Traversal

Easy
32m average time
0/40
Asked in companies
AmazonSwiggyVisa

You have been given a Binary Tree of 'n' nodes, where the nodes have integer values. Your task is to return the In-Order traversal of the given binary tree.


For example :
For the given binary tree:

The Inorder traversal will be [5, 3, 2, 1, 7, 4, 6].
Problem approach

I solved the question using two stacks approach.

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2. Spiral Order Traversal of a Binary Tree

Easy
20m average time
75% success
0/40
Asked in companies
MicrosoftCiscoArcesium

You have been given a binary tree of 'N' nodes. Print the Spiral Order traversal of this binary tree.

For example
For the given binary tree [1, 2, 3, -1, -1, 4, 5, -1, -1, -1, -1]
    1
   / \
  2   3
     / \
    4   5

Output: 1 3 2 4 5
Problem approach

I used the two stack approach in this problem.

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03
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration90 Minutes
Interview date24 Aug 2020
Coding problem2

This round had major focus on DBMS concepts and puzzles.

1. DBMS Questions

Questions about DML, DDL, triggers and normalization.

Problem approach

Tip 1 : Thoroughly revise concepts before interview.

2. Operating System Question

Questions about semaphores, paging and threading.

Problem approach

Tip 1 : Practice examples which have real life implementations.

04
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date25 Aug 2020
Coding problem1

This was a managerial round.
Major discussions was on the projects that i had developed.

1. Palindromic Substrings

Moderate
20m average time
80% success
0/80
Asked in companies
MicrosoftSalesforceAmazon

You have been given a string STR. Your task is to find the total number of palindromic substrings of STR.

Example :
If the input string is "abbc", then all the possible palindromic substrings would be: ["a", "b", "b", c", "bb"] and hence, the output will be 5 since we have 5 substrings in total which form a palindrome.
Note :
A string is said to be a 'Palindrome' if it is read the same forwards and backwards. 
For example, “abba” is a palindrome, but “abbc” is not.

A 'Substring' is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string. 
For example, "a", "b", "c", "ab", "bc", "abc" are substrings of "abc".
Problem approach

Find all even sized pallindromic substrings then find all odd sized pallindromic substrings.

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