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3 rounds | 5 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 3 months
Topics: Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Practice DS algo questions
Tip 2 : Practice aptitude and quantitative questions
Tip 3 : Do at least 2 projects

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: 6.5
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Have some projects on resume
Tip 2 : Do not put false things on resume

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration120-150 minutes
Interview date7 Aug 2021
Coding problem2

3 sections were there
1. English Section
2. Aptitude section
3. Coding section

1. Most Frequent Word

Easy
0/40
Asked in companies
JP MorganSalesforceIBM

You are given a paragraph that may have letters both in lowercase and uppercase, spaces, and punctuation. You have also given a list of banned words. Now your task is to find the most frequent word which is not in the list of banned words. There will always be a solution, and the solution will be unique.

While comparing words, you can ignore whether the letter is lowercase or uppercase. For example, ‘AsK’ and ‘aSK’ are the same. The words will always contain only alphabets or we can say words will be separated by spaces or punctuation. The answer will be in uppercase letters.

The words in the banned list will always be in upper letters and free from punctuation and spaces.

For example :

Paragraph = ‘It's a square SqUare. It's a FLAT flat.’ 
Banned =[FLAT, IT, S]. 
So we can see these words [IT, S, SQUARE, FLAT ]  are most frequent.
Now we will look at to banned list and we can see 3 of the words are banned.
So we have a unique answer SQUARE which has a frequency of 2 and not on the banned list.
Try solving now

2. Reverse Linked List

Moderate
15m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
CIS - Cyber InfrastructureInfo Edge India (Naukri.com)Cisco

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?
Problem approach

Initialize three pointers prev as NULL, curr as head and next as NULL.
Iterate through the linked list. In loop, do following. 
// Before changing next of current, 
// store next node 
next = curr->next
// Now change next of current 
// This is where actual reversing happens 
curr->next = prev 
// Move prev and curr one step forward 
prev = curr 
curr = next

Try solving now
02
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration30 minutes
Interview date9 Sep 2021
Coding problem2

DS algo theory questions, basic data structures questions

Moderate
25m average time
70% success
0/80
Asked in companies
Citi BankTata Consultancy Services (TCS)CIS - Cyber Infrastructure

Ninja is given a pattern. Now he is asked to print the same pattern for any given ‘N’ number of rows.

Note:

There is only one space between the values of each column in a row.

For example, Pattern for ‘N’ = 5 will be.
1 2 3 4 5 
11 12 13 14 15 
21 22 23 24 25 
16 17 18 19 20 
6 7 8 9 10 
Problem approach

Use for loops to print two equiateral triangles facing away from each other but with same base.

Try solving now

2. Nth Fibonacci Number

Easy
0/40
Asked in companies
IBMSAP LabsAccenture

The n-th term of Fibonacci series F(n), where F(n) is a function, is calculated using the following formula -

    F(n) = F(n - 1) + F(n - 2), 
    Where, F(1) = 1, F(2) = 1


Provided 'n' you have to find out the n-th Fibonacci Number. Handle edges cases like when 'n' = 1 or 'n' = 2 by using conditionals like if else and return what's expected.

"Indexing is start from 1"


Example :
Input: 6

Output: 8

Explanation: The number is ‘6’ so we have to find the “6th” Fibonacci number.
So by using the given formula of the Fibonacci series, we get the series:    
[ 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21]
So the “6th” element is “8” hence we get the output.
Problem approach

Use recurssion to solve the problem.
In Fibonacci Series, first number starts with 0 and second is with 1 and then its grow like,

0

1

0 + 1 = 1

1 + 1 = 2

1 + 2 = 3

2 + 3 = 5 and 

so on…

Try solving now
03
Round
Medium
HR Round
Duration10 minutes
Interview date10 Sep 2021
Coding problem1

Basic HR questions like What are your Hobbies And what are your Future plans.
Managerial round

1. Basic HR questions

1. Tell us about yourself and your projects

2. Are you wishing to relocate and tell us about The TCS company?

3. Where do you see yourself in next 5 years?

4. What is your favorite subject?

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