iServeU Software Engineer Analyst Interview Questions and Answers

Round duration - 90 mins
Round difficulty - Hard

There were questions related to DP and DFS.

 

Q1. 
Trapping Rain Water Problem Statement
You are given a long type array/list ARR of size N, representing an elevation map. The value ARR[i] denotes the elevation of the ith bar. Your task is to determine th...read more
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Calculate the total amount of rainwater that can be trapped between given elevations in an array.
• Iterate through the array and calculate the maximum height on the left and right of each bar.

• Calculate the amount of water that can be trapped at each bar by taking the minimum of the maximum heights on the left and right.

• Sum up the trapped water at each bar to get the total trapped water for the entire array.
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Round duration - 60 mins
Round difficulty - Medium

At first, I was asked about the different projects that I have done so far. We had a detailed discussion on the same.
He also checked my OOP concepts

Q1. Can you describe the process of designing an LRU Cache from scratch during your System Design Round?
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Designing an LRU Cache involves implementing a data structure that stores a fixed number of items and removes the least recently used item when full.
• Start by defining the data structure for the cache, typically using a combination of a hashmap and a doubly linked list.

• Implement methods for getting and setting key-value pairs in the cache.

• When a new item is added to the cache, check if it exceeds the maximum capacity. I...read more
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Reverse Linked List Problem Statement
Given a Singly Linked List of integers, your task is to reverse the Linked List by altering the links between the nodes.
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The first line of input is an intege...read more
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Reverse a singly linked list by altering the links between nodes.
• Iterate through the linked list and reverse the links between nodes

• Use three pointers to keep track of the current, previous, and next nodes

• Update the links between nodes to reverse the list

• Return the head of the reversed linked list
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Q3. 
Middle of a Linked List
You are given the head node of a singly linked list. Your task is to return a pointer pointing to the middle of the linked list.
If there is an odd number of elements, return the ...read more
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Return the middle element of a singly linked list, or the one farther from the head if there are even elements.
• Traverse the linked list with two pointers, one moving twice as fast as the other

• When the fast pointer reaches the end, the slow pointer will be at the middle

• If there are even elements, return the one that is farther from the head node

• Handle edge cases like linked list of size 1 or empty list
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Round duration - 60 mins
Round difficulty - Medium

It is HR + Technical round
asked about the Behavioural questions and how you justify yourself in an argument .questions related to current technology.
They gave me feedback on how well I had performed so far and gave me suggestions on what more can I do to further improve myself.

Time ,speed ,distance

Java application using oops concept

Q1. Inheritance , oops
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Q1. Tell me about urself
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Q1. Concurrent modification exception Java multithreading java collection framework oops
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2 questions. 1 was basic level. 2 was of medium level.

Q1. An ambiguous problem statement was given. Asking relevant questions revealed the problem to be largest island in a binary matrix. Was asked to code on an ide. And reduce space complexity to O(1).
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Q2. Maximum sum path from root to leaf in an N-ary tree. Was asked to design an appropriate data structure. Then code the solution in O(n) time and O(1) space.
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Q1. Through discuss of projects. Methods used.
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Q2. First missing positive number in an array of integer in O(n) time O(1) space.
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Find first missing positive number in an array in O(n) time and O(1) space.
• Traverse the array and mark the presence of each positive integer by changing the sign of the corresponding index.

• Traverse the array again and return the index of the first positive integer.

• If all integers are present, return the length of the array + 1.

• Example: [3, 4, -1, 1] => mark 3rd and 4th index as negative => return 2.

• Example: [1, 2, 0] =...read more
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Q3. Given an integer, print the relevant column name in an excel sheet. Ex: 1- A , 2-B.......... 26-Z , 27-AA, 28-AB........ Was asked code on an ide and test cases were given.
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Given an integer, print the relevant column name in an excel sheet.
• Create a string array of alphabets from A to Z

• Use modulo operator to get remainder and divide by 26 to get quotient

• Append the corresponding alphabet to the result string

• Reverse the result string
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Q1. What are your salary expectations?
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Duration-1.5 hours
Kadane's Algorithm, Even Numbers at even index & odd at odd index, print out the second highest node of the tree

Q1. DSA ZigZag tree traversal OS Architecture of RAM Types of RAM Difference between compiler and interpreter What is a scheduler What is multithreading Disadvantages of FCFS and how can we use RoundRobin to ...read more
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ZigZag tree traversal is a method to traverse a binary tree in a zigzag pattern.
• In ZigZag tree traversal, we visit the nodes of a binary tree in a zigzag pattern, moving from left to right and then right to left.

• We can use a stack or a queue to implement ZigZag tree traversal.

• The algorithm involves maintaining two stacks or two queues to keep track of the nodes at each level.

• We start with the root node and alternate be...read more
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