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4 rounds | 8 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
Hello all, My name is Nayan, I would like to share my journey. So was looking for change the jobs, I've applied from linkedin, career pages and other many site. But i was not selected, later I found my previous company's friend working there, so I applied by his referral and later I got Interview call from them. there were 3 round of technical interview and 1 round of HR Interview
Application story
I was applying from linkedin and career page from company to company, later i found my previous company's friend working in samsung, so i applied by his referral
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I went through 3 technical round and 1 HR round, some of the technical codes were very tough but in the last I passed my all round and I got offer letter
Preparation
Duration: 3 month
Topics: DSA, system design, operating system, Database, AWS
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : solve real time codes
Tip 2 : write big queries
Tip 3 : clear your basic fundamentals in operating system and system design parts

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

Tip 1 : don't put false things
Tip 2 : keep resume short

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Test
Duration30 minutes
Interview date23 Dec 2022
Coding problem2

In this mcq based round there were almost 30 questions including System design, data structures and algorithms, DBMS.

1. Technical Questions

Data structures questions are all about pointers, string, oops and recursion

Problem approach

Tip 1 : clear your basics
Tip 2 : practice more codes

2. DBMS Questions

DBMS all about SQL and plsql. Ddl, dml and tcl based SQL MCQ.

Problem approach

Tip 1 : practice more queries

02
Round
Medium
Online Coding Test
Duration40 minutes
Interview date24 Jan 2023
Coding problem3

So coming to 2nd round of technical interview where I need to solve 3 codes within 40 minutes, this 3 codes bit easy for me

1. Sort Array

Moderate
15m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
HSBCHCL TechnologiesOYO

You are given an array consisting of 'N' positive integers where each integer is either 0 or 1 or 2. Your task is to sort the given array in non-decreasing order.

Note :
1. The array consists of only 3 distinct integers 0, 1, 2.
2. The array is non-empty.
Try solving now

2. Nearly Sorted

Moderate
10m average time
90% success
0/80
Asked in companies
IBMDream11Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs

You’re given an array/list 'ARR' of N elements, where each element is at most K away from its target position(Position if the array was sorted). Now, your task is to devise an algorithm that sorts the given array in O(N log K) time.

For example:

Let us consider 'K' is 3, an element at index 4 in the sorted array, can be at indexes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 in the given array, because the absolute difference of all these indices with 4 is at most 3.
Try solving now

3. Reverse Linked List

Moderate
15m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
WalmartHCL TechnologiesInfo Edge India (Naukri.com)

Given a singly linked list of integers. Your task is to return the head of the reversed linked list.

For example:
The given linked list is 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4-> NULL. Then the reverse linked list is 4 -> 3 -> 2 -> 1 -> NULL and the head of the reversed linked list will be 4.
Follow Up :
Can you solve this problem in O(N) time and O(1) space complexity?
Try solving now
03
Round
Medium
Online Coding Test
Duration30 minutes
Interview date24 Dec 2022
Coding problem2

In 3rd round of technical interview, I was given 2 code of hashing algorithm and stacks

1. Count Distinct Elements In Every Window

Moderate
15m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
HSBCZSCIS - Cyber Infrastructure

Given an array of integers ‘arr’ of size ‘n’ and an integer ‘k’. You need to find the count of distinct elements in every sub-array of size ‘k’ in the given array. Return an integer array ‘count’ that consists of n - k + 1 integers where ‘count[i]’ is equal to the number of distinct elements in a sub-array of size ‘k’ starting from index ‘i’.

Note:
1. The sub-array of an array is a continuous part of the array.
2. Consider ‘0’ based indexing.
3. ‘k’ will always be less than or equal to ‘n’.
3. Don’t print anything, just return the integer array ‘count’.
Try solving now

2. Towers

Moderate
15m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
HCL TechnologiesOracleD.E.Shaw

You are given ‘N’ cubes in an array ‘ARR’ in a certain order, and your task is to build towers using them. Whenever two cubes are on top of the other, the upper cube must be smaller than the lower cube.

You must process the cubes in the given order. You can always either place the cube on top of an existing tower or begin a new tower. What is the minimum possible number of towers?

For example:

Given ‘N’ = 3, ‘ARR’[] = 3, 2, 1.
The answer will be one because you can stack one over two over 3. Therefore only these can be inserted in the same tower.
Try solving now
04
Round
Medium
HR Round
Duration20.minutes
Interview date26 Dec 2022
Coding problem1

So the last round was HR round

1. Basic HR Questions

y salary discussion happened apart from that interviewer asked me about my previous company and project, and general questions they asked and she gave me also chance to ask questions about samsung company, it's work culture and work life balance these questions i asked

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

Skill covered: Programming

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