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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

The platform was HackerEarth time duration was 1 hour.
2 Coding questions were asked, 30 minutes for each were allotted.

Q1. 
Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters Problem Statement
Given a string S of length L, determine the length of the longest substring that contains no repeating characters.
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Ans. 
Find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters in a given string.
• Use a sliding window approach to keep track of the longest substring without repeating characters.

• Use a hashmap to store the index of each character in the string.

• Update the start index of the window when a repeating character is encountered.

• Calculate the maximum length of the substring as you iterate through the string.

• Return the m
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Q2. 
Triplets with Given Sum Problem
Given an array or list ARR consisting of N integers, your task is to identify all distinct triplets within the array that sum up to a specified number K.
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Identify all distinct triplets within an array that sum up to a specified number.
• Iterate through the array and use nested loops to find all possible triplets.

• Use a set to store unique triplets and check if the sum equals the target sum.

• Handle edge cases like duplicate elements and no valid triplets.

• Time complexity can be optimized using sorting and two-pointer technique.
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Round duration - 120 Minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

This was a 2 hours round, with the following problem statement. At the end of the allotted time you had give a demo and explain your implementation.

Round duration - 45 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

The platform was Zoom, time duration was 45 mins. Started with Tell me something about yourself. I told them, that I like solving algorithms and real life problems.

Round duration - 20 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Interviewer was very friendly. Asked few questions about myself and then asked questions about what I know about the company.

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

The platform was HackerEarth time duration was 1 hour.
2 Coding questions were asked, 30 minutes for each were allotted.

Q1. 
Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters Problem Statement
Given a string S of length L, determine the length of the longest substring that contains no repeating characters.
Example:
Input:
"abac...read more
Ans. 
The problem asks to find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters in a given string.
• Use a sliding window approach to iterate through the string and keep track of the characters seen so far.

• Maintain a set to check for duplicate characters within the current substring.

• Update the maximum length of the substring whenever a duplicate character is encountered.

• Continue the process until the end of the ...read more
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Q2. 
Find All Triplets with Zero Sum
Given an array Arr consisting of N integers, find all distinct triplets in the array that sum up to zero.
Explanation:
An array is said to have a triplet {Arr[i], Arr[j],...read more
Ans. 
The task is to find all distinct triplets in an array that add up to zero.
• Iterate through the array and fix the first element of the triplet.

• Use two pointers approach to find the other two elements that sum up to the negative of the fixed element.

• Skip duplicate elements to avoid duplicate triplets.

• Return the list of triplets found.
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Round duration - 120 Minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

This was a 2 hours round, with the following problem statement. At the end of the allotted time you had give a demo and explain your implementation.

Round duration - 45 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

The platform was Zoom, time duration was 45 mins. Started with Tell me something about yourself. I told them, that I like solving algorithms and real life problems.

Chrome and Firefox Browser automation

Log file tail last n lines where n is configurable. Followup question on how you can optimize it further incase log file size is in TBs and incase it is cluster of servers

Q1. Detailed Technical background check and discussion on past projects.
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Q2. Messaging queue and best practices
Ans. 
Messaging queues are used to manage asynchronous communication between different components of a system.
• Use a reliable messaging queue system like RabbitMQ or Apache Kafka

• Ensure messages are properly formatted and serialized

• Implement message acknowledgement and retry mechanisms

• Monitor queue health and performance

• Consider message ordering and partitioning for scalability

• Avoid long-running tasks in message handlers
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Q3. Binary Search Tree twisted question
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Q4. Map Reduce concept for solving dictionary keywords
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MapReduce is a programming model for processing large data sets in parallel.
• MapReduce divides the input data into chunks and processes them in parallel.

• It consists of two phases: Map and Reduce.

• Map function takes input data and converts it into key-value pairs.

• Reduce function takes the output of Map as input and combines the values with the same key.

• It is used for solving dictionary keywords by mapping each word to a k
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