Colruyt Group Lead Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Round duration - 40 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Asked about time complexity of algorithm, puzzles, DBMS, cutting edge technologies etc. What are indexes?

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Flip Bits Problem Explanation
Given an array of integers ARR of size N, consisting of 0s and 1s, you need to select a sub-array and flip its bits. Your task is to return the maximum count of 1s that can b...read more
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Given an array of 0s and 1s, find the maximum count of 1s by flipping a sub-array at most once.
• Iterate through the array and keep track of the maximum count of 1s obtained by flipping a sub-array.

• Consider flipping a sub-array from index i to j and calculate the count of 1s in the resulting array.

• Return the maximum count of 1s obtained by flipping a sub-array at most once.
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Round duration - 20 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Asked 1 standard algorithm

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Number of Islands Problem Statement
You are provided with a 2-dimensional matrix having N rows and M columns, containing only 1s (land) and 0s (water). Your goal is to determine the number of islands in t...read more
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Count the number of islands in a 2D matrix of 1s and 0s.
• Iterate through the matrix and perform depth-first search (DFS) to find connected 1s.

• Mark visited cells to avoid redundant traversal.

• Increment island count whenever a new island is encountered.
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Initially, they shortlist the candidates and group them into batches of 15 students. During this process, they conduct a group discussion (GD) in which each student has 3 minutes to think, followed by an opportunity to describe their points in 2 to 3 minutes.

Remote online test based on aptitude and programming snippets

Either group discussion round to check the communication

Q1. Are you ready to relocate?
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Q2. Why you wanna join coditas?
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This is a aptitude and coding round which is comparatively easy

They give you a topic for which you have to talk to for atleast 2 minutes

There are 2 GD rounds , idk why they take 2 GD rounds

Q1. This is the interview round one on one online
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Q2. Oops concepts, Sql - 3rd highest salary question, Dsa - reverse a string, DBMS concepts
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Q1. Java, OOPS, Flutter basics
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Q1. Isolates, Plugins, Event Loops
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There were 19 questions consists of aptitude and technical subject. Then 2 codes were there . Then 1 code of SQL query .

Q1. Technical Interview 45min Introduce yourself Projects included in Resume Discussion on Projects Mentioned in projects Two coding questions -----+all+permutation+of+a+string+geeksforgeeks -----/ 2 Puzzle
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Generate all permutations of a given string using recursion and backtracking.
• Use recursion to generate all possible permutations of the string.

• Use backtracking to backtrack and explore all possible combinations.

• Store each permutation in an array of strings.
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Q1. Technical Interview 45 min Introduce yourself Projects included in Resume Discussion on Projects Mentioned in projects Two coding questions -----+a+string+geeksforgeeks -----/ 3 Puzzle
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Q1. Technical + HR 1 hrs Introduce yourself Projects included in Resume Discussion on Projects Mentioned in projects 3 coding questions ----- ----- ----- 2 Puzzle
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