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2 rounds | 4 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
My personal journey is very challenging coming from a middle-class family I need not have the access to a computer for a long time. I came to know about computer when i joined my college but from there i never look back again.
Application story
This is an on-campus placement opportunity for me the company visited my campus for the placement .
Why selected/rejected for the role?
This was a great experience for me i was able to perform well, and i am satisfied with the effort i have put forward.
Preparation
Duration: 4 months
Topics: Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Prepare your resume well. 
Tip 2 : Deploy your projects so that the interviewer can view it. Also provide a hyperlink on your resume.
Tip 3 : Be thorough with Data Structures and Algorithms. Also prepare well topics such as OS,DBMS.

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: Above 6 CGPA
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Deploy your projects so that the interviewer can view it. Also, provide a hyperlink on your resume
Tip 2 : It's not important to have fancy projects. Only mention those on which you're confident.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 mins
Interview date13 Jan 2023
Coding problem2

1. Minimum Cost Path

Moderate
25m average time
70% success
0/80
Asked in companies
HSBCHCL TechnologiesHCL Technologies

You have been given a matrix of ‘N’ rows and ‘M’ columns filled up with integers. Find the minimum sum that can be obtained from a path which from cell (x,y) and ends at the top left corner (1,1).

From any cell in a row, we can move to the right, down or the down right diagonal cell. So from a particular cell (row, col), we can move to the following three cells:

Down: (row+1,col)
Right: (row, col+1)
Down right diagonal: (row+1, col+1)
Problem approach

I had practiced enough of DP questions, so this one looked fairly easy. Since it was a standard DP question, the same approach worked here too.

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2. Maximum Subarray Sum

Moderate
35m average time
81% success
0/80
Asked in companies
HCL TechnologiesInformaticaSamsung

You are given an array 'arr' of length 'n', consisting of integers.


A subarray is a contiguous segment of an array. In other words, a subarray can be formed by removing 0 or more integers from the beginning and 0 or more integers from the end of an array.


Find the sum of the subarray (including empty subarray) having maximum sum among all subarrays.


The sum of an empty subarray is 0.


Example :
Input: 'arr' = [1, 2, 7, -4, 3, 2, -10, 9, 1]

Output: 11

Explanation: The subarray yielding the maximum sum is [1, 2, 7, -4, 3, 2].
Problem approach

I used Kadane algorithm here to find subarray with maximum sum. It is a standard question for interview.

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02
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 mins
Interview date13 Jan 2023
Coding problem2

1. DFS Traversal

Moderate
35m average time
65% success
0/80
Asked in companies
SamsungIntuitGoldman Sachs

Given an undirected and disconnected graph G(V, E), containing 'V' vertices and 'E' edges, the information about edges is given using 'GRAPH' matrix, where i-th edge is between GRAPH[i][0] and GRAPH[i][1]. print its DFS traversal.

V is the number of vertices present in graph G and vertices are numbered from 0 to V-1. 

E is the number of edges present in graph G.
Note :
The Graph may not be connected i.e there may exist multiple components in a graph.
Problem approach

As I have to find a number of connected components in an undirected graph so I simply use Depth-first search to solve this question by visiting each element and mapped it to the number of component in which it belongs. At last, I print the vertices of each component.

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2. Edit Distance

Moderate
30m average time
70% success
0/80
Asked in companies
WalmartOYOGoldman Sachs

You are given two strings 'S' and 'T' of lengths 'N' and 'M' respectively. Find the "Edit Distance" between the strings.

Edit Distance of two strings is the minimum number of steps required to make one string equal to the other. In order to do so, you can perform the following three operations:

1. Delete a character
2. Replace a character with another one
3. Insert a character
Note:
Strings don't contain spaces in between.
Problem approach

Firstly I gave the interviewer, a recursive solution then he asked me to reduce complexity as it was exponential of recursive solution so I gave him a top-down DP solution.

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