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SDE - 1

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3 rounds | 3 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 2 months
Topics: Data Structure, Algorithms, System Design, Spring, Dynamic Programming
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : prepare data structure like heap 
Tip 2 : prepare DP

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

Tip 1 : Highlight the skills that you well aware of.
Tip 2 : Include ratings of skills that you have in resume.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration60 mins
Interview date1 Oct 2018
Coding problem1

1. Minimum Number of Platform Needed

Easy
23m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
Thought WorksGoldman SachsIntuit

You are given the arrival and departure times of N trains at a railway station in a day. You need to find the minimum of platforms required for the railway station such that no train waits i.e No train should wait for the platform to be clear or free.

Problem approach

1 Initially I tried with Run two nested loops from start to end and for every iteration of the outer loop, i tried to find the count of intervals that intersect with the current interval except itself.
2 Update the answer with the maximum count of overlap in each iteration of the outer loop and print ans.

But this is not best solution so i tried to improve my solution by using heap data structure.so time time complexity reduced a lot.

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02
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration60 mins
Interview date1 Oct 2018
Coding problem1

1. Closest Leaf To Given Node In Binary Tree

Moderate
15m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
Cerner CorporationJosh Technology GroupGoDigitley

Ninja is stuck in a maze which is in a form of a binary tree. He needs your help in order to get out.

Ninja is presently at the node ‘X’. The only exit points of the maze are the leaf nodes of the tree. You need to tell him the distance to the nearest exit point from his current location. This will help him decide which path he should take in order to escape from the maze.

Example:

sample tree 1

Suppose, Ninja is stuck at node 62. The possible exit points in the maze are: 40, 10, and 20. From all the possible exit points the closest ones are 10 and 20 which are at a distance of 1 unit.
Problem approach

1 first i tried to store Inorder traversal of given binary search tree in an auxiliary array and then by taking absolute difference of each element i tried to find the node having minimum absolute difference with given target value K in linear time.
2 But its not efficient solution because i have not used the charectoristics of BST so i tried with optimised approach like 
a If my target value K is present in given BST, then it’s the node having minimum absolute difference.
b If target value K is less than the value of current node then move to the left child.
c If target value K is greater than the value of current node then move to the right child.

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03
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration60 mins
Interview date4 Oct 2018
Coding problem1

1. Technical questions

1 Horizontal scaling vs vertical scaling
2 There is a machine having some position in terms of coordinates so this can move in four directions and there is one string of movements specified in terms of directions so after completion of all operation we need to ans finally the machine will face in which direction. so we need to design structure of different classes we need with full functionality and exception handling

Problem approach

Tip 1: when to use which scaling we need to have deep knowledge.
Tip 2: we need to have proper answer of why we are making variables/methods are private/public/protected. 
Tip 3: proper use of Solid Principles and design principles.

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