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3 rounds | 5 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
I started my coding journey from the second year of graduation. I asked and consulted seniors on how to start in my career. I started doing DSA. In starting it was not regular but from the seventh semester, I started practicing DSA on regular basis. Meanwhile I also learned Web Development in the last phase of third year. Than, I was ready to apply in different companies.
Application story
My friend texted me about this company visiting our campus and told me some of the important questions and topics for its selection process. I applied and participated in its selection process and luckily most of the questions were from the list of important questions shared by my friend. So, I was lucky here.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I was confident during the full interview process. Actually, I worked a lot on my communications skills and I think they were the main reasons for me getting par the selection process.
Preparation
Duration: 6 months
Topics: Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.
Tip 3 : Do at-least 2 good projects and you must know every bit of them.

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: 7 CGPA
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Test
Duration60 minutes
Interview date11 Mar 2020
Coding problem2

1. Single Number

Easy
10m average time
90% success
0/40
Asked in companies
CultfitPaytm (One97 Communications Limited)Atlassian

You are given an array A of length N, where N is always an odd integer. There are (N-1)/2 elements in the array that occur twice and one element which occurs once.

Your task is to find the only element that occurs once in the array.

Note: There are (N-1)/2+1 elements that are unique in the array.

Example:
Consider the array be 1,6,4,6,2,4,2
The integers 2, 4, 6 occur twice and only the integer 1 occurs once. 
Try solving now

2. Flipping Coins

Moderate
32m average time
68% success
0/80
Asked in companies
FlipkartAmerican ExpressWalmart

Gary has N coins placed in a straight line. Some coins have head side up, and others have the tail side up.

Convention:
1 denotes the HEAD side is up. 
0 denotes the TAIL side is up. 

Now, Gary wants to obtain a maximum number of head-side up coins. He can perform at most one(possibly 0) flip in which he can flip the coins of a continuous interval (continuous subarray).

For example: In the given array (0 based indexing), { 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1 }, we can obtain maximum head side up coins by flipping the coins in range 1 to 5. The array will thus become {1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1 }.

Return the maximum number of heads side up Gary can obtain.

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02
Round
Medium
Online Coding Test
Duration60 minutes
Interview date20 Mar 2020
Coding problem2

1. Maximum XOR

Hard
10m average time
90% success
0/120
Asked in companies
Red HatInfosysErnst & Young (EY)

You are given two arrays of non-negative integers say ‘arr1’ and ‘arr2’. Your task is to find the maximum value of ( ‘A’ xor ‘B’ ) where ‘A’ and ‘B’ are any elements from ‘arr1’ and ‘arr2’ respectively and ‘xor’ represents the bitwise xor operation.

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2. Reverse Linked List

Moderate
15m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
QuikrMicrosoftSAP Labs

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?
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03
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration20 minutes
Interview date30 Mar 2020
Coding problem1

1. Basic HR Questions

How will you react if you are asked to work overtime at the same pay?
How will you handle conflict in your colleagues?
Are you willing to relocate?
What do you know about the work culture here in our organisation?

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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