Lifesight Software Developer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Round duration - 75 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round was with SDE-1 
After my introduction , he asked me 3 Questions
 

Q1. 
Validate Binary Search Tree (BST)
You are given a binary tree with 'N' integer nodes. Your task is to determine whether this binary tree is a Binary Search Tree (BST).
BST Definition:
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Validate if a given binary tree is a Binary Search Tree (BST) or not.
• Check if the left subtree of a node contains only nodes with data less than the node's data.

• Check if the right subtree of a node contains only nodes with data greater than the node's data.

• Recursively check if both the left and right subtrees are also binary search trees.

• Example: For each node, validate if its left child is less than the node and right
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Q2. 
Longest Substring with K Distinct Characters
You are provided with a string S of length N, consisting of lowercase English alphabet letters, and a positive integer K.
Your task is to determine the maximu...read more
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Find the longest substring with at most K distinct characters in a given string.
• Use a sliding window approach to keep track of the characters and their counts in the substring.

• Maintain a hashmap to store the characters and their frequencies.

• Update the window size and characters count as you iterate through the string.

• Return the maximum length of the substring with at most K distinct characters.
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Q3. 
Cycle Detection in Undirected Graph Problem Statement
You are provided with an undirected graph containing 'N' vertices and 'M' edges. The vertices are numbered from 1 to 'N'. Your objective is to determi...read more
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Detect if an undirected graph contains a cycle.
• Use depth-first search (DFS) to detect cycles in the graph.

• Maintain a visited array to keep track of visited vertices.

• If a visited vertex is encountered again during DFS, a cycle exists.

• Consider disconnected graphs as well.

• Example: For input N=3, Edges=[[1, 2], [2, 3], [1, 3]], output is Yes.
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Round duration - 90 Miinutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round was with a Senior Data Engineer as this position was a mix of Backend and Big Data.

 

Q1. 
Covid Vaccination Distribution Problem
As the Government ramps up vaccination drives to combat the second wave of Covid-19, you are tasked with helping plan an effective vaccination schedule. Your goal is...read more
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Given constraints and rules, find maximum vaccines administered on a specific day during a vaccination drive.
• Iterate through each test case and calculate the maximum number of vaccines distributed on the specified day.

• Distribute vaccines evenly across days while maximizing the number on the specified day.

• Ensure that the sum of vaccines administered does not exceed the maximum allowed.

• Consider edge cases like when the n...read more
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Q2. 
Combination Sum Problem Statement
Given an array of distinct positive integers ARR and a non-negative integer 'B', find all unique combinations in the array where the sum is equal to 'B'. Numbers can be c...read more
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Find all unique combinations in an array where the sum is equal to a given target sum, with elements in non-decreasing order.
• Use backtracking to generate all possible combinations of elements in the array that sum up to the target sum.

• Sort the array to ensure elements in each combination are in non-decreasing order.

• Handle duplicate elements in the array to avoid duplicate combinations.

• Consider edge cases like empty arr...read more
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Round duration - 75 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This round was taken by Engineering Manager
There were 2 sections to this round
Technical and Non Techincal
 

Q1. 
Sliding Window Maximum Problem Statement
You are given an array/list of integers with length 'N'. A sliding window of size 'K' moves from the start to the end of the array. For each of the 'N'-'K'+1 possi...read more
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Sliding window maximum problem where we find maximum element in each window of size K.
• Use a deque to store indices of elements in decreasing order within the window.

• Pop elements from the deque that are out of the current window.

• Append the maximum element from the front of the deque to the result for each window.
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