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Backend Developer

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1 rounds | 1 Coding problems

Himadri Nayak

Experienced | Apr 2025

Selected

Interview preparation journey

Journey

Over the past few months, I focused on strengthening my JavaScript fundamentals and preparing for front-end interviews. I revised key JavaScript interview questions around concepts like closures, event loop, promises, async/await, React hooks, and component lifecycle. Alongside, I dedicated consistent time to solving DSA problems from LeetCode—starting with easy problems and gradually moving to medium-level ones. Working on arrays, strings, linked lists, recursion, and dynamic programming helped me build confidence in problem-solving and logical thinking.

Preparation

Topics: Javascript, DSA

Application process

Where: Coding Ninjas Placement Cell

Eligibility: B.Tech (CS/IT)

Interview rounds

Round

Medium

Online Coding Interview

Duration

Interview date7 Apr 2025

Coding problem1

1. LeetCode binary search problem: Koko Eating Bananas

Koko loves to eat bananas. There are n piles of bananas, where the ith pile has piles[i] bananas. The guards have gone and will return in h hours. Koko can decide her bananas-per-hour eating speed k. Each hour, she chooses a pile and eats k bananas from it. If the pile has fewer than k bananas, she eats all of them and doesn’t eat more that hour. Koko wants to finish eating all the bananas before the guards return. Return the minimum integer k such that she can eat all the bananas within h hours.