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Associate Software Engineer

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2 rounds | 3 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
I was an active participant in our college in various coding competitions and practiced a lot of Questions on various competitive programming sites. Although I got placed very early during college time so was not allowed in other companies so kept working hard for various off-campus opportunities available.
Application story
Playsimple games visited our campus and was one of the highest paying companies. I applied for it after the test interviews happened.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
Company had fixed the amount of students it will take from campus so i think they had specific requirements which they found and rejected other candidates.
Preparation
Duration: 8 months
Topics: Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Computer Networking, Object Oriented Programming, ML
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Never leave any topic from any chapter / Subject
Tip 2 : Learn to explain your thoughts well
Tip 3 : Learn from previous experiences / interviews / problems asked.
Tip 4 : Atleast 4 projects in Resume

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: Above 8 CGPA
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : At least 4 projects on the resume
Tip 2 : Do not write false things. You always get caught. Be genuine.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date9 Aug 2021
Coding problem2

The interviewer asked questions on projects, tech stack i have worked on, 2 coding questions.

1. First Missing Positive

Moderate
18m average time
84% success
0/80
Asked in companies
DunzoHikeSamsung

You are given an array 'ARR' of integers of length N. Your task is to find the first missing positive integer in linear time and constant space. In other words, find the lowest positive integer that does not exist in the array. The array can have negative numbers as well.

For example, the input [3, 4, -1, 1] should give output 2 because it is the smallest positive number that is missing in the input array.

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2. Tree Traversals

Easy
15m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
Wells FargoBig BasketMicrosoft

You have been given a Binary Tree of 'N'

nodes, where the nodes have integer values.


Your task is to return the ln-Order, Pre-Order, and Post-Order traversals of the given binary tree.


For example :
For the given binary tree:

Binary - Tree1

The Inorder traversal will be [5, 3, 2, 1, 7, 4, 6].
The Preorder traversal will be [1, 3, 5, 2, 4, 7, 6].
The Postorder traversal will be [5, 2, 3, 7, 6, 4, 1].
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02
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date13 Aug 2021
Coding problem1

This round was an Hiring Manager round. He was very interested on my work in the previous company. He asked the whole architecture of the project i have worked on. After that He finished the round by asking 1 DSA question.

1. Sliding Maximum

Moderate
25m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
AmazonAmerican ExpressSquadstack

You are given an array 'ARR' of integers of length 'N' and a positive integer 'K'. You need to find the maximum elements for each and every contiguous subarray of size K of the array.

For example
'ARR' =  [3, 4, -1, 1, 5] and 'K' = 3
Output =  [4, 4, 5]

Since the maximum element of the first subarray of length three ([3, 4, -1]) is 4, the maximum element of the second subarray of length three ([4, -1, 1]) is also 4 and the maximum element of the last subarray of length three ([-1, 1, 5]) is 5, so you need to return [4, 4, 5]. 
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