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Software Engineer

Societe Generale
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2 rounds | 4 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
In college, I decided to learn DSA and get into IT. However, I started a little late and started doing DSA at the end of the second year. I also focused on aptitude and logic puzzles.
Application story
This was an on-campus opportunity. I applied through the college placement cell. The first resume shortlisting was performed. After the online test, 15 candidates were selected for interviews.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I was selected due to the quick response that I gave to the aptitude questions to the interviewer. I was asked about the cloud concepts, and I answered those correctly.
Preparation
Duration: 6 Months
Topics: Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming
Tip
Tip

Tip 1: Practice previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2: Review all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode. As a bonus, you should practice the interview experiences of the company that you are targeting.
Tip 3: Do at least two good projects; you must know every bit of them.

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: Above 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.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Test
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date15 Feb 2020
Coding problem2

1. Spiral Matrix

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

You are given a 2-D array 'MATRIX' of dimensions N x M, of integers. You need to return the spiral path of the matrix.

Example Of Spiral Path:

Spiral path of a matrix

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2. Balanced parentheses

Moderate
10m average time
90% success
0/80
Asked in companies
WalmartMakeMyTripGoldman Sachs

Given an integer ‘N’ representing the number of pairs of parentheses, Find all the possible combinations of balanced parentheses with the given number of pairs of parentheses.

Note :

Conditions for valid parentheses:
1. All open brackets must be closed by the closing brackets.

2. Open brackets must be closed in the correct order.

For Example :

()()()() is a valid parentheses.
)()()( is not a valid parentheses.
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02
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date21 Feb 2020
Coding problem2

1. Check If One String Is A Rotation Of Another String

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

You are given two Strings 'P' and 'Q' of equal length.


Your task is to return 1 if String 'P' can be converted into String 'Q' by cyclically rotating it to the right any number of times ( Possibly Zero ), else return 0.


A cyclic rotation to the right on String 'A' consists of taking String 'A' and moving the rightmost character to the leftmost position. For example, if 'A' = "pqrst", then it will be "tpqrs" after one cyclic rotation on 'A'.


For example:
Consider the two strings 'P' = "abfyg" and 'Q' = "gabfy" 

If we cyclically rotate String 'P' to the right once. The resulting string P becomes "gabfy" which is equal to String 'Q'. 

Therefore it is possible to convert String 'P' to String 'Q'.
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2. Missing Number

Moderate
30m average time
70% success
0/80
Asked in companies
HSBCSterlite Technologies LimitedSamsung

You are given an array/list ‘BINARYNUMS’ that consists of ‘N’ distinct strings which represent all integers from 0 to N in binary representation except one integer. This integer between 0 to ‘N’ whose binary representation is not present in list ‘BINARYNUMS’ is called ‘Missing Integer’.

Your task is to find the binary representation of that ‘Missing Integer’. You should return a string that represents this ‘Missing Integer’ in binary without leading zeros.

Note

1. There will be no leading zeros in any string in the list ‘BINARYNUMS’.

Example:

Consider N = 5 and the list ‘binaryNums’=  [“0”, “01”, “010”, “100”, “101”].  This list consists of the binary representation of numbers [0, 1, 2, 4, 5]. Clearly, the missing number is 3 and its binary representation will be “11”. So you should return string “11”.
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