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Software Engineer
Rakuten India
3 rounds | 3 Coding
problems
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Preparation
Duration: 3 Months
Topics: TREES, DP, STACKS & QUEUES, JAVASCRIPT, HTML & CSS
Tip 1 : Please have atleast one project built on top of you skillset outside your work
Tip 2 : Practice atleast 2Algorithms per day on Leetcode
Application process
Where: Other
Eligibility: Min 1 year of Experience
Tip 1 : Have a stunning side project
Tip 2 : Make a single page resume
Interview rounds
01
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date20 Jul 2021
Coding problem1
The interview went for 1hr. Initiall the interviewer asked me few questions from my Resume and later has started with DSA
1. Longest Common Subsequence
Moderate
0/80
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You have been given two Strings “STR1” and “STR2” of characters. Your task is to find the length of the longest common subsequence.
A String ‘a’ is a subsequence of a String ‘b’ if ‘a’ can be obtained from ‘b’ by deletion of several (possibly, zero or all) characters. A common subsequence of two Strings is a subsequence that is common to both Strings.
Problem approach
Brute force : Initially I created subsets for the two strings. And then searched for a string which is common in both the subsets and there by picked the one with longest length
The interviewer asked me to optimise the solution considering the brute force had a worst time complexity
Optimised: Then I came up with a solution based on DP ( solution available on GFG)
02
Round
Easy
Face to Face
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date24 Jun 2021
Coding problem1
The interviewer asked me about my previous experience and problems that I have solved in my previous company.
1. System Design Questions
Handling Authentication/Authorization on frontend
CDN vs browser storage vs service workers
Security standards to be followed on the frontend
Ways to Interact with the server
Small UI design based on CSS
Problem approach
Be confident with your approach
Revise through the experiences you had in your past company handling specific features like Auth/payment/caching/SEO/Accessibility
03
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration30 Minutes
Interview date28 Jul 2021
Coding problem1
This was mostly a behavioural round.
Most questions are from the points I have mentioned on my Resume.
Dont lie too much on you resume
1. Basic HR Questions
Why should we hire you?
What technologies you are familiar with?
Here's your problem of the day 
Solving this problem will increase your chance to get selected in this company
Skill covered: Programming
What is recursion?
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