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3 rounds | 4 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 8 months-1 year
Topics: Data structure and algorithms, OOPS, System Design, Dynamic Programming, DBMS, Networking
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Practice as many questions as you can, it will help you to crack the Online test rounds and also will help you in interviews. As my experience there must be at least one round there they will ask you to solve some DSA problems so there the problem solving will help you.
Tip 2 : Do at least 2 projects , it doesn’t matter that it must be some bigger ones but if you are doing any project than make sure that you know everything about your is working and how is it working.
Tip 3 : Be confident in interviews and try to avoid say no most of the time. Try to give some relevant answer but don’t take it like you say anything. 
If you have half knowledge of something you have asked than tell the interviewer that much than you can say that much i know

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: No criteria
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : At least mention two projects in resume with proper headline that what your project is actually doing.
Tip 2 : When you are writing something in your resume make sure have knowledge about that otherwise try to avoid it to write. Most of the times the interviewer ask questions based on your resume

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration40 minutes
Interview date1 Sep 2021
Coding problem1

That round is conducted in the morning around 10.30.
The interview started and firstly the interviewer ask about my self and give his introduction.
Than he share one DSA question and ask me to tell the approch and than ask me to optimise the complexity of the approch the code than i give the approch and he ask me to code that one.

1. Sweets and Ants

Easy
15m average time
80% success
0/40
Asked in companies
RazorpayDirecti

You like sweets so much that you decided to make sweets at your home, little do you know that ants living in your house love sweets too. There will be ‘T’ times when you decide to make sweets. Each time you will make ‘N’ types of sweets numbered from ‘1’ to ‘N’. Once you cook ‘ith’ sweet it has a freshness value ‘N’ and all the previous sweet’s freshness values decreases by 1. After cooking each sweet, you will store it in the fridge to cool down and leave. The moment you leave the fridge, ants will steal some of the sweets(might be 0 as well). Since they love fresh sweets, they will steal all the sweets with a freshness value greater than ‘N - S[i]’.

After you cooked all the ‘N’ sweets, you went to the fridge and found that some(might be 0 as well) of the sweets were missing. You have to print an array of length ‘N’ containing 1 and 0, where the ‘ith’ value will be 1 if ants stole that sweet else, it will be 0.

Note: In each test case, the first sweet has id ‘1’, the second sweet has id ‘2’ and so on.

Note: Ants will come to steal every time you cook a sweet.

Problem approach

Step 1: i first apply the brute force approch, but it’s not good enough.
Step 2: interviewer asked me the time completely and i told him about that, than he ask me to optimise it.
Step 3: then tell him an approch using some extra space than he is fine with that approch.

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02
Round
Hard
Online Coding Interview
Duration50 minutes
Interview date1 Sep 2021
Coding problem1

It started around 12.30 in noon and firstly the interviewer give intro about himself and asked me for the same.

1. Number of Islands

Easy
0/40
Asked in companies
IBMDunzoMicrosoft

You have been given a non-empty grid consisting of only 0s and 1s. You have to find the number of islands in the given grid.

An island is a group of 1s (representing land) connected horizontally, vertically or diagonally. You can assume that all four edges of the grid are surrounded by 0s (representing water).

Problem approach

Step 1 : interviewer asked me the approch and i give him one approch than he asked me the recursive approch an told the approch than he asked me to write down the code.
Step 2: I’m able to run the code in 3 time than he asked me to take the input as manually and make that change.

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03
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration40 minutes
Interview date1 Sep 2021
Coding problem2

The interviewer told me about that round that it’s not the HR round and give intro of him and asked for mine and than start the question.

1. OS Questions

He asked me about the type of os and the difference between each type than asked me about the dead lock situation and the ways we can solve or avoid the deadlock situation.

Problem approach

Tip 1 : i give him brief intro about each type of os with examples 
Tip 2 : when he asked me about the dead lock i shared my screen and explained it using some examples 

2. OOPs questions

Give me case and asked me to fetch the data based on given condition than he came to OOPS question where he asked about polymorphism , inheritance and other stuff.

Problem approach

Tip 1: make sure before writing any sql query try it on some data on paper 
Tip 2: be clear with concept of OOPS( i got confused in run time polymorphism and compile time polymorphism)

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