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3 rounds | 6 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
Every software Engineer aspires to work at big tech companies. In my recent interview experiences , I attended interviews of different countries and recieved offers from Samsung R&D , Synopsys , ST microelectronics
Application story
Samsung visited On-campus. Application form is shared by TPO and 10 days time is given for filling the form. After that students are selected for online test round on the basis of cgpa.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
Mainly all the interview rounds are based on Data structures and algorithm problems. I am good at that and able to answer all those problems.
Preparation
Duration: 6 months
Topics: Data structures and algorithms, OOPs , DBMS, Computer network, nodejs , OS
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Atleast 500 DS algo questions
Tip 2 : Try to create one good project
Tip 3 : Try to do competitive programming

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: 7.5 cgpa
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1: Write about internships you have done
Tip 2: Don't write about dancing, singing and all those kind of stuff

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Test
Duration90 minutes
Interview date10 Nov 2021
Coding problem2

This round is conducted on online platform cocubes.
In total 3 problems are there that has to be solved in 90 minutes. Those who are able to solve all three were selected for next round.

1. Segregate Even And Odd Nodes In a Linked List

Easy
15m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
OlaDunzoExpedia Group

You are given the head node of a singly linked list 'head'. Your task is to modify the linked list in such a way that all the even valued nodes appear before the all odd valued node and order of nodes remain the same.


Example :-
The given singly linked list is  6 -> 5 -> 3 -> 4 -> 7 -> 1 -> 2 

subsequence

The modified linked list should have all even values in starting and odd values in the end.
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2. BFS in Graph

Easy
10m average time
90% success
0/40
Asked in companies
Morgan StanleySamsung R&D InstituteRubrik, Inc.

Given an adjacency list representation of a directed graph with ‘n’ vertices and ‘m’ edges. Your task is to return a list consisting of Breadth-First Traversal (BFS) starting from vertex 0.


In this traversal, one can move from vertex 'u' to vertex 'v' only if there is an edge from 'u' to 'v'. The BFS traversal should include all nodes directly or indirectly connected to vertex 0.


Note:
The traversal should proceed from left to right according to the input adjacency list.


Example:
Adjacency list: { {1,2,3},{4}, {5}, {},{},{}}

The interpretation of this adjacency list is as follows:
Vertex 0 has directed edges towards vertices 1, 2, and 3.
Vertex 1 has a directed edge towards vertex 4.
Vertex 2 has a directed edge towards vertex 5.
Vertices 3, 4, and 5 have no outgoing edges.

We can also see this in the diagram below.

BFS traversal: 0 1 2 3 4 5

example

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02
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration90 minutes
Interview date11 Nov 2021
Coding problem3

Timings for the round is about 1 hour but mine went for 90 minutes. Firstly interviewer introduces himself and then asked me about my introduction. Then after that he went for asking DS algo problems.

1. Ways To Make Coin Change

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

You are given an infinite supply of coins of each of denominations D = {D0, D1, D2, D3, ...... Dn-1}. You need to figure out the total number of ways W, in which you can make a change for value V using coins of denominations from D. Print 0, if a change isn't possible.

Problem approach

Tip 1: You have to start from brute force approach than go on till most optimised.

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2. M - Coloring Problem

Easy
15m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
SquadstackUberSamsung

You are given an undirected graph with N nodes in the form of an adjacency matrix. You are also given an integer M.

Your task is to find if you can color the vertices of the graph using at most M colors such that no two adjacent vertices are of the same color.

For example:

If the given adjacency matrix is:
[0 1 0]
[1 0 1]
[0 1 0] and M = 3.

The given adjacency matrix tells us that node 1 is connected to node 2 and node 2 is connected to node 3. 

So if we color vertex 1 with ‘red’, vertex 2 with ‘blue’, and vertex 3 with ‘red’, it is possible to color the given graph with two colors which is less than or equal to M.
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3. Maximum Subarray Sum

Moderate
25m average time
75% success
0/80
Asked in companies
CultfitPayPalWalmart

Given an array of numbers, find the maximum sum of any contiguous subarray of the array.


For example, given the array [34, -50, 42, 14, -5, 86], the maximum sum would be 137, since we would take elements 42, 14, -5, and 86.


Given the array [-5, -1, -8, -9], the maximum sum would be -1.


Follow up: Do this in O(N) time.

Problem approach

Tip 1: Explain all the corner cases i.e array including negative numbers.

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03
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration10 mins.
Interview date14 Nov 2021
Coding problem1

This is on-call round.
After that round final result is declared and around 25 students selected and I am one of them.

1. basic Hr Questions

 HR told to introduce myself and then asked about my internship experience and projects.

Here's your problem of the day

Solving this problem will increase your chance to get selected in this company

Skill covered: Programming

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