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3 rounds | 7 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
In the lockdown period, I started my journey to where I am today. When the first lockdown prevailed I started to learn DSA, and I think that was the best time to learn DSA because no pressure from college was there for its useless assignments and all. In the lockdown of around 6 months, I learnt the basic algorithms and at the end I started practising on leetcode and codechef like platforms, they helped me a lot during my journey.
Application story
I got to know about the openings and that the hiring drive of the company going to visit our college for hiring candidates as SDE-1. I prepared myself for the same and after the selection process, I got the offer letter.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I think my skills and knowledge were up to the mark that they found me as a valuable candidate. Moreover, my communication skills added up to my numbers.
Preparation
Duration: 5 months
Topics: Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming, DBMS, OS
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : 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 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration60 minutes
Interview date14 Jun 2021
Coding problem3

1. Clone Graph

Moderate
25m average time
75% success
0/80
Asked in companies
MicrosoftGrabUber

You are given a reference/address of a node in a connected undirected graph containing N nodes and M edges. You are supposed to return a clone of the given graph which is nothing but a deep copy. Each node in the graph contains an integer “data” and an array/list of its neighbours.

The structure of the graphNode class is as follows:

class graphNode 
{  
    public:
        int data;
        vector<graphNode*> neighbours;
}
Note :
1. Nodes are numbered from 1 to N.

2. Your solution will run on multiple test cases. If you are using global variables make sure to clear them.
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2. K Largest Element

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

You are given an unsorted array containing ‘N’ integers. You need to find ‘K’ largest elements from the given array. Also, you need to return the elements in non-decreasing order.

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3. N Queens

Hard
55m average time
35% success
0/120
Asked in companies
Thought WorksTwitterAdobe

You are given an integer 'N'. For a given 'N' x 'N' chessboard, find a way to place 'N' queens such that no queen can attack any other queen on the chessboard.

A queen can be killed when it lies in the same row, or same column, or the same diagonal of any of the other queens. You have to print all such configurations.

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02
Round
Easy
Face to Face
Duration60 minutes
Interview date18 Jun 2021
Coding problem3

1. Minimum Number of Taps To Water Garden

Hard
15m average time
85% success
0/120
Asked in companies
AppleBNY MellonOla

The gardener wants to water the garden by opening the minimum number of taps. The garden is one-dimensional along the x-axis of length N i.e. the garden starts from point 0 and ends at point N. There are N + 1 tap located at points [0, 1, 2, …, N] in the garden.

You are given an integer N, and an array named “ranges” of size N + 1(0-indexed). The ith tap, if opened, can water the gardener from point (i - ranges[i]) to (i + ranges[i]) including both. The task is to find the minimum number of taps that should be open to water the whole garden, return -1 if the garden can not be watered.

Example :

Watering The Garden

Follow Up:
Can you solve the problem in O(N) time?
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2. Longest Happy String

Moderate
25m average time
75% success
0/80
Asked in companies
SalesforceWalmartVFISLK Global Services

Ninja likes to play with strings, and he calls a string ‘S’ Happy if it only contains letters ‘a’, ‘b’, and ‘c’, and no three consecutive letters in the string are the same. For example, ‘aa’, ‘aab’, ‘aabbcc’ are the happy strings, but ‘aaa’, ‘aaza’, ‘aaabbb’ are not happy strings.

You are given three non-negative integers ‘X’, ‘Y’, ‘Z’. You need to find the longest happy string such that it contains ‘a’ at most ‘X’ times, ‘b’ at most ‘Y’ times, and ‘c’ almost ‘Z’ times.

Note:

There can be more than one possible string with maximum size. In that case, you can return any of them.
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3. OS Questions

What is a socket?
What is kernel?
What is monolithic kernel?
What is the concept of reentrancy?
What is the use of paging in operating system?
What is the concept of demand paging?
What is the advantage of a multiprocessor system?
What are the four necessary and sufficient conditions behind the deadlock?

03
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration20 minutes
Interview date24 Jun 2021
Coding problem1

1. Basic HR Questions

Introduce yourself
Why do you want to join us?
What are your hobbies?
What do you think makes you a better choice than the other candidates?
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?

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Skill covered: Programming

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