Clarivate Associate Software Engineer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Initial coding test on hacker rank, easy to med level, pretty straight forward, not too difficult

Q1. Reverse alternate words in a given string
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Reverse alternate words in a given string
• Split the string into words

• Reverse alternate words using a loop

• Join the words back into a string
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Q2. Implement bubble sort
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Bubble sort is a simple sorting algorithm that repeatedly steps through the list, compares adjacent elements, and swaps them if they are in the wrong order.
• Start at the beginning of the array and compare the first two elements. If the first element is greater than the second, swap them.

• Continue comparing adjacent elements and swapping them if necessary until the end of the array is reached.

• Repeat this process for each ...read more
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Q3. Find frequency of letters in a given string
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Use a hashmap to store the frequency of each letter in the given string.
• Iterate through the string and update the frequency of each letter in the hashmap.

• Return the hashmap containing the frequency of each letter.
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Q4. A few general aptitude related questions
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Q5. Behavioral questions
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Round duration - 75 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Consists of MCQ + 2 coding questions( medium level)

Q1. 
Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock II Problem Statement
Given the stock prices for a certain number of days, represented as an array, determine the maximum profit you can achieve. You may perform as many tra...read more
Ans. Brute Force Approach
Let's say we have stock values of two days, say, [20, 30].
One must have to buy the stock first in order to sell it in the coming days.
So, 
1. if I choose to buy the stock on first day for a value of 20 and sell it on the second day for a value of 30, I can earn a max profit of 10.
2. If I chose to skip day 1, then buying the stock on day 2 will put me in lose since there are no further days on wh...read more
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

The round is based on data structures, oops concepts and implementation, OS and DBMS general questions. And Please do not forget to read about scheduling algorithms and ACID properties of RDBMS.

Q1. Can you explain the implementation of abstract classes and interfaces in inheritance, as well as the concepts of function overloading and overriding?
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It's on hacker rank. Be prepared for two coding questions.

Q1. This round will expect you to code one or two questions infront of the interviewers.
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Q2. Question which was given in hacker rank.
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Medium level coding

Q1. Resume related questions
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