APEEJAY SHIPPING Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Conduct technical interview and aptitude test
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Q1. What was ur previous experience or u r afresher
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Q2. Why would we hire u
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Q3. What are ur business statics
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Our business statistics show consistent growth in sales revenue and customer acquisition over the past year.
• Sales revenue increased by 15% compared to last year

• Acquired 20 new clients in the last quarter

• Average order value rose by 10% due to successful upselling strategies
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Email writing and verbal test 30 mins duration to complete

Q1. Based on the resume given
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Q1. 
0/1 Knapsack Problem Statement
A thief is planning to rob a store and can carry a maximum weight of 'W' in his knapsack. The store contains 'N' items where the ith item has a weight of 'wi' and a value of...read more
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Yes, the 0/1 Knapsack problem can be solved using dynamic programming with a space complexity of not more than O(W).
• Use a 1D array to store the maximum value that can be stolen for each weight capacity from 0 to W.

• Iterate through each item and update the array based on whether including the item would increase the total value.

• The final value in the array at index W will be the maximum value that can be stolen.
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Q2. 
Find the Second Largest Element
Given an array or list of integers 'ARR', identify the second largest element in 'ARR'.
If a second largest element does not exist, return -1.
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ARR = [2,...read more
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Find the second largest element in an array of integers.
• Iterate through the array to find the largest and second largest elements.

• Handle cases where all elements are identical.

• Return -1 if a second largest element does not exist.
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

System Design Round

Q1. Design a system for Twitter, discussing its architecture, key components, and scalability considerations.
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Design a scalable system for Twitter with key components and architecture.
• Use microservices architecture for scalability and fault isolation.

• Key components include user service, tweet service, timeline service, and notification service.

• Use a distributed database like Cassandra for storing tweets and user data.

• Implement a message queue like Kafka for handling real-time updates and notifications.

• Use a caching layer like ...read more
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Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It is just a formality

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

4 Questions which were of Easy, Medium, and Hard level.

Q1. 
Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree III
The structure of a binary tree has been modified so that each node includes a reference to its parent node.
Problem Statement
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This question is about finding the lowest common ancestor of two nodes in a binary tree with parent references.
• Traverse from the given nodes to their respective root nodes and store the paths in two separate lists.

• Compare the two lists and find the last common node.

• Return the last common node as the lowest common ancestor.
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Q2. 
Maximum Subarray Problem Statement
Ninja has been given an array, and he wants to find a subarray such that the sum of all elements in the subarray is maximum.
A subarray 'A' is considered greater than a...read more
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The problem is to find a subarray with the maximum sum in a given array.
• Iterate through the array and keep track of the maximum sum and the current sum.

• If the current sum becomes negative, reset it to 0.

• Update the maximum sum if the current sum is greater.

• Also keep track of the start and end indices of the subarray with the maximum sum.

• Return the subarray using the start and end indices.
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Round duration - 50 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Q1. 
Next Greater Element Problem Statement
Given a list of integers of size N, your task is to determine the Next Greater Element (NGE) for every element. The Next Greater Element for an element X is the firs...read more
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The task is to find the next greater element for each element in an array.
• Iterate through the array from right to left.

• Use a stack to keep track of the elements that have a greater element to their right.

• For each element, pop elements from the stack until a greater element is found or the stack is empty.

• If a greater element is found, it is the next greater element for the current element.

• If the stack becomes empty, the...read more
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Q2. 
Trapping Rain Water Problem Statement
You are given a long type array/list ARR of size N, representing an elevation map. The value ARR[i] denotes the elevation of the ith bar. Your task is to determine th...read more
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The question asks to find the total amount of rainwater that can be trapped in the given elevation map.
• Iterate through the array and find the maximum height on the left and right side of each bar.

• Calculate the amount of water that can be trapped at each bar by taking the minimum of the maximum heights on both sides and subtracting the height of the bar.

• Sum up the amount of water trapped at each bar to get the total amo
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Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It is just a formality round, asked basic questions like relocation and joining date etc