Cisco Softwaretest Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

There were 2 coding questions and 20 aptitude questions. Coding questiins were based in trees and graphs

Q1. Mainly dsa, oops questions were asked
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Q2. Find cycle in linked list
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Use Floyd's Tortoise and Hare algorithm to detect cycle in a linked list.
• Initialize two pointers, slow and fast, at the head of the linked list.

• Move slow pointer by one step and fast pointer by two steps.

• If they meet at any point, there is a cycle in the linked list.

• If fast pointer reaches the end of the list, there is no cycle.
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Coding test realted to c or cpp will be taken.

Q1. Technical question realted to 4G and 5G NR will be asked.
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Q1. Technical 2 round questions realted to programming language you need to write and explain.
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Q1. About youself and then salary discussion
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Timing: Morning
How was the environment? It happened in the Computer Lab of my institution
All students were assigned a computer and we had to solve questions on hackerrank

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Order of People Heights Problem Statement
Consider 'N' individuals numbered from 0 to N-1 standing in a queue. You are provided with two arrays: Height and Infront, each consisting of 'N' non-negative int...read more
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The task is to find the actual order of people in a queue based on their heights and the number of taller people in front of them.
• Iterate through the given arrays and create a list of tuples containing the height and number of taller people for each person.

• Sort the list of tuples in descending order of height and ascending order of the number of taller people.

• Create an empty result list and insert each tuple into the r...read more
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Round was a mix of concepts from OOPS, OS and Problem Solving

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Binary Search Tree Value Finder
Given a Binary Search Tree (BST) and a key value 'X', determine if there exists a node within the BST containing the value 'X'.
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Input:
Consider the tree represe...read more
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The task is to find if a given value is present in a Binary Search Tree (BST).
• Start from the root node and compare the value with the target value.

• If the value matches, return true.

• If the target value is less than the current node value, move to the left child.

• If the target value is greater than the current node value, move to the right child.

• Repeat the process until a match is found or a leaf node is reached.

• If a leaf...read more
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