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3 rounds | 5 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
When I joined college, I was unaware of this Data Structure and Algorithm, which made my journey to getting an internship way more complicated. From that point, I started doing questions on leetcode and code studio.
Application story
This company visited to my campus for the placement where i applied for it .
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I was rejected because i was not able to provide a good approach to the DSA question which are being asked
Preparation
Duration: 4 months
Topics: Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Practice from Leetcode, solve Leetcode medium level problems.
Tip 2 : Brush up computer fundamentals from subjects like OS, DBMS and CN.
Tip 3 : Have a good project or good internship experience and have in-depth knowledge regarding what you have done.

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

Tip 1 : Have some projects on resume.
Tip 2 : Do not put false things on resume.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date10 Mar 2022
Coding problem2

1. Right View

Moderate
35m average time
65% success
0/80
Asked in companies
AdobeSAP LabsRazorpay

You have been given a Binary Tree of integers.

Your task is to print the Right view of it.

The right view of a Binary Tree is a set of nodes visible when the tree is viewed from the Right side and the nodes are printed from top to bottom order.

Problem approach

Step 1: I traverse the Tree in the root, right, and left manner using recursion.
Step 2: I take a variable for level and keep updating when the level increased.
Step 3: Store all right view elements in the vector.

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2. Find number of Islands

Moderate
34m average time
60% success
0/80
Asked in companies
MicrosoftAmazonUber

You are given a 2-dimensional array/list having N rows and M columns, which is filled with ones(1) and zeroes(0). 1 signifies land, and 0 signifies water.

A cell is said to be connected to another cell, if one cell lies immediately next to the other cell, in any of the eight directions (two vertical, two horizontal, and four diagonals).

A group of connected cells having value 1 is called an island. Your task is to find the number of such islands present in the matrix.

Problem approach

I used the DFS approach.

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02
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date10 Mar 2022
Coding problem2

1. Merge Two Sorted Linked Lists

Moderate
15m average time
80% success
0/80
Asked in companies
CIS - Cyber InfrastructureAmazonApple

You are given two sorted linked lists. You have to merge them to produce a combined sorted linked list. You need to return the head of the final linked list.

Note:

The given linked lists may or may not be null.

For example:

If the first list is: 1 -> 4 -> 5 -> NULL and the second list is: 2 -> 3 -> 5 -> NULL

The final list would be: 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 5 -> NULL
Problem approach

I solved this problem using two pointer approach.

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2. K Most Frequent Words

Moderate
10m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
WalmartOracleFacebook

You are given an Integer array ‘ARR’ and an Integer ‘K’.


Your task is to find the ‘K’ most frequent elements in ‘ARR’. Return the elements in any order.


For Example:

You are given ‘ARR’ = {1, 2, 2, 3, 3} and ‘K’ = 2. 

The answer will {2, 3} as 2 and 3 are the elements occurring most times.
Problem approach

I solved this problem using a map and priority queue data structure.

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03
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date10 Mar 2022
Coding problem1

1. LCA of Two Nodes in a BST

Moderate
15m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
Morgan StanleyGoldman SachsAcko

You are given a binary search tree of integers with N nodes. You are also given references to two nodes 'P' and 'Q' from this BST.


Your task is to find the lowest common ancestor(LCA) of these two given nodes.


The lowest common ancestor for two nodes P and Q is defined as the lowest node that has both P and Q as descendants (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself)


A binary search tree (BST) is a binary tree data structure which has the following properties.

• The left subtree of a node contains only nodes with data less than the node’s data.
• The right subtree of a node contains only nodes with data greater than the node’s data.
• Both the left and right subtrees must also be binary search trees.


For example:
'P' = 1, 'Q' = 3
tree = 2 1 4 -1 -1 3 -1 -1 -1,

The BST corresponding will be- 

Here, we can clearly see that LCA of node 1 and node 3 is 2.
Problem approach

First I tell the brute force approach after that Interviewer asked optimized approach. I was able to answer the optimized solution and then write pseudo code in google doc.

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