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4 rounds | 9 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 5 months
Topics: OOPS, DSA, Computer Networks, OS, DBMS, Competetive coding
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Always prepare with real time examples and know things from basic.
Tip 2 : Practice coding questions covering different types of problems instead of quantity of same type.
Tip 3 : Be thorough with the internship details.

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: Cgpa of 7.5
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Have a related project to the job profile you are applying for.
Tip 2 : Have a good grasp of what you have written on your cv.

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date7 Sep 2019
Coding problem2

This round was conducted on amcat platform. It was in the morning. It consisted of aptitude, reasoning, programming related mcq and 2coding questions.

1. First non repeating character

Easy
15m average time
80% success
0/40
Asked in companies
HCL TechnologiesWells FargoAmazon

Ninja is now bored with numbers and is now playing with characters but hates when he gets repeated characters. Ninja is provided a string, and he wants to return the first unique character in the string.The string will contain characters only from the English alphabet set, i.e., ('A' - 'Z') and ('a' - 'z'). If there is no non-repeating character, print the first character of the string. If there is no non-repeating character, return the first character of the string.

Problem approach

This can easily be solved using a hashmap

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2. Longest Common Substring

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

You are given two strings, 'str1' and 'str2'. You have to find the length of the longest common substring.


A substring is a continuous segment of a string. For example, "bcd" is a substring of "abcd", while "acd" or "cda" are not.


Example:
Input: ‘str1’ = “abcjklp” , ‘str2’ = “acjkp”.

Output: 3

Explanation:  The longest common substring between ‘str1’ and ‘str2’ is “cjk”, of length 3.
Problem approach

I have solved in the similar fashion which is provided in the above link

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02
Round
Medium
Coding Test - Pen and paper
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date23 Sep 2019
Coding problem2

This round had riddles based on analytical thinking, logical reasoning questions, pictorial representation questions. Some technical questions related to OS, Java, DSA were there. 2 problems were given for which the codes have to be written.

1. Merge Sort

Easy
15m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
Media.netHewlett Packard EnterpriseIBM

Given a sequence of numbers ‘ARR’. Your task is to return a sorted sequence of ‘ARR’ in non-descending order with help of the merge sort algorithm.

Example :

Merge Sort Algorithm -

Merge sort is a Divide and Conquer based Algorithm. It divides the input array into two-parts, until the size of the input array is not ‘1’. In the return part, it will merge two sorted arrays a return a whole merged sorted array.

subsequence

The above illustrates shows how merge sort works.
Note :
It is compulsory to use the ‘Merge Sort’ algorithm.
Problem approach

Pretty straight forward answer related to sorting

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2. Minimum Steps

Moderate
20m average time
80% success
0/80
Asked in companies
MicrosoftWells FargoOracle

You are given an array ‘ARR’ consisting of ‘N’ integers. Your task is to make all the numbers equal. You decrease one of the largest numbers present in the array into a number that is just lower than the maximum number in one step.

For example:
You are given ‘ARR’ = [5, 2, 3]
In the first step, you can change 5 to 3, so the new array is [3, 2,3].

In the second step, you can change the 3 to 2, then the array is [2, 2,3].

In the third step, you can change the 3 to 2, then the array is [2, 2, 2] 

Hence the answer is 3.
Problem approach

I have solved this problem using brute force method but the time complex solution can be found in the above link

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03
Round
Easy
Face to Face
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date23 Sep 2019
Coding problem4

Questions related to project, internship and coding were asked.

1. Java based technical Question

What is interface

Problem approach

Tip 1: It's just a theory question based on java but I was not comfortable in java at that time as I was from c++ background.
 

2. Rotate array

Easy
25m average time
80% success
0/40
Asked in companies
Deutsche BankIBMSalesforce

Given an array 'arr' with 'n' elements, the task is to rotate the array to the left by 'k' steps, where 'k' is non-negative.


Example:
'arr '= [1,2,3,4,5]
'k' = 1  rotated array = [2,3,4,5,1]
'k' = 2  rotated array = [3,4,5,1,2]
'k' = 3  rotated array = [4,5,1,2,3] and so on.
Problem approach

This can be solved by dividing the array into different parts. Calculate the gcd between the length and distance to be moved. The elements are shifted within parts.

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3. Puzzle

How do you find the least 10 scores of students in a class. There are two tables you need to join and get the result

Problem approach

Tip 1: I have used top keyword and sorted in ascending order.
Tip 2: joined the tables using left join

4. Puzzle

Questions related to second round written problems were asked. My brute force method was exposed and he asked me to try again but i couldn't give the efficienct solution.

04
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration30 Minutes
Interview date26 Aug 2019
Coding problem1

I was not selected for this round.

1. Basic HR questions

Questions related to psychological thinking were asked and simple hr questions were asked as told by my friends who got selected.

Here's your problem of the day

Solving this problem will increase your chance to get selected in this company

Skill covered: Programming

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