Clarivate Associate Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

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
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The problem involves finding the maximum profit that can be achieved by buying and selling stocks on different days.
• Iterate through the array of stock prices and find the local minima and maxima to calculate profit

• Keep track of the total profit by adding the differences between consecutive maxima and minima

• You can perform multiple transactions, so buy at each local minima and sell at each local maxima

• Example: For price...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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Abstract classes and interfaces in inheritance allow for defining common behavior and function signatures, while function overloading and overriding enable polymorphism.
• Abstract classes are classes that cannot be instantiated and may contain abstract methods that must be implemented by subclasses.

• Interfaces are similar to abstract classes but can only contain method signatures and constants, with no method implementati...read more
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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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