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3 rounds | 5 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
I started my preparation in my 2nd year. As an ECE student, I began with C++ and DSA through Coding Ninja's courses and practiced extensively on coding platforms. During my 6th semester, I completed an internship at British Telecom. When I returned in my 4th year, the situation was different—fewer companies were coming for placements, which worried me. I continued practicing DSA and focused on learning web development and building a project to enhance my resume. Eight months into the placement cycle, Samsung visited my college in March 2024, and I finally secured a position there.
Application story
The company visited my campus in March. I applied through the portal, and the interview process began 10 days later.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
Apart from clearing the online assessment, my technical interview was crucial for ensuring my selection. I was well-versed with the projects mentioned on my resume and the skills I had listed.
Preparation
Duration: 8 months
Topics: Data Structures, OOPs, Dynamic Programming, Graphs, Trees
Tip
Tip

Tip 1: Focus on Dynamic Programming (DP) and Graphs for the coding round, as companies often ask questions about these two topics.

Tip 2: Be thorough with your resume for the interview rounds.

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: Circuital Branches (CSE,ECE,Electrical)
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1: Include a strong project on your resume.

Tip 2: Be thorough with what you have mentioned and be confident about it.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Hard
Online Coding Test
Duration180 minutes
Interview date16 Mar 2024
Coding problem1

This round consisted of just 1 coding question which was to be solved in 3 hours.

1. Shortest Path in a Binary Matrix

Moderate
37m average time
65% success
0/80
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A research team wants to establish a research centre in a region where they have found some rare elements. They aim to locate the research centre as close as possible to all the rare elements to minimize the overall research costs. It is given that all the rare elements' locations are connected by roads, and the research centre can only be built on a road. The team has decided to assign this task to a coder if you feel you have the potential.

Task: Find the shortest of the longest distances from the research centre to the given locations of the rare elements.

Locations are represented in a matrix where 1 denotes a road and 0 denotes no road. The number of rare elements and their locations are given (number ≤ 5), and the order of the square matrix is less than or equal to 20.

Problem approach

I focused on first going ahead with the brute force approach and then trying to optimize my solution. I thought of using DFS and then once I had pretty much discovered what was needed I finally went ahead with BFS.

The approach was simple, at every grid that could be a possible location for the research plant, find the distance from all the rare elements using BFS, store the answer and finally save the best possible location.

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02
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration40 minutes
Interview date16 Mar 2024
Coding problem3

This was a technical interview. The interview started about 20 minutes after the test. The interviewer was somewhat friendly and began with a brief description of the company and its role. He then asked a bit about me before starting with the questions.

1. Operating System

He asked me about users, kernels and threads.

2. Operating System

  1. Asked me about scheduling algorithms. (Learn)
  2. Preemptive vs non-preamptive, (Learn)
  3. FCFS, The shortest job first, (Learn)

3. OOPs Concepts

He then asked me a few questions on OOPs, particularly on inheritance and polymorphism
He wrote a small code related to a class inheriting some properties from a parent class and then asked me to completely describe the flow of the constructor, destructor, how an object would be created etc. 
Then he asked even more follow-up questions on it.

03
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration25 minutes
Interview date16 Mar 2024
Coding problem1

This was a HR round. The HR was nice to talk to and she made a very easy environment in the interview.

1. HR question

A brief about myself. She asked me about my involvement in extracurricular activities at the college since I had mentioned a Position of Responsibility in my resume. Then she asked me how I manage all those stuff and the interview pretty much revolved around my college life only.

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