MindSquare Technologies Application Lead Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. What is zero coupon bond?
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A zero coupon bond is a bond that pays no interest and is sold at a discount to its face value.
• Zero coupon bonds are also known as discount bonds.

• Investors buy these bonds at a price lower than their face value and receive the full face value at maturity.

• The difference between the purchase price and the face value is the investor's return.

• Zero coupon bonds are often used for long-term investments, such as retirement sa...read more
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Q2. What is corporate actions and how you record those in books?
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Corporate actions are events initiated by a company that can affect its stock price and shareholders. They are recorded in books through various accounting entries.
• Corporate actions include stock splits, dividends, mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs.

• These actions are recorded in books through journal entries and adjustments to accounts such as retained earnings and stockholders' equity.

• For example, if a company decla...read more
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Q1. Sql is the most important , Focus on Joins ,Sub query and Sql basics
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Q2. Joining tables with different joins
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Joining tables with different joins in SQL
• Use INNER JOIN to return rows when there is at least one match in both tables

• Use LEFT JOIN to return all rows from the left table and the matched rows from the right table

• Use RIGHT JOIN to return all rows from the right table and the matched rows from the left table

• Use FULL JOIN to return rows when there is a match in one of the tables
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HackerRank Coding Test followed by one to one

Q1. Deep Dive into Programming Language questions
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Q2. System Design related questions
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Q1. Its more about the previous roles & project
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Round duration - 60 mins
Round difficulty - Medium

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Railway Seat Berth Determination
Given a railway seat number represented as an integer, determine if it is a valid seat number and identify its berth type. Possible berth types include lower berth, middle...read more
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Given a railway seat number, determine if it is valid and identify its berth type.
• Parse input integer 't' for number of test cases

• For each test case, check if seat number is valid (1 <= N <= 100)

• Identify berth type based on seat number and output the result

• Possible berth types are Lower, Middle, Upper, Side Lower, and Side Upper
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Round duration - 90 mins
Round difficulty - Hard

First they asked me to introduce myself then they started questioning on oops concept from basic to advance level such as inheritance, polymorphism, abstraction, exception handling , STL etc. Next they started questioning on data structures. They asked me the logic of “how to find the middle of a linked list”.

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Matrix Symmetry Check
You are provided with a square matrix. Your task is to return true if the matrix is symmetric; otherwise, return false.
A symmetric matrix is characterized by its transpose being eq...read more
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Check if a square matrix is symmetric by comparing it with its transpose.
• Iterate through the matrix and compare each element with its corresponding element in the transpose

• If any pair of elements do not match, return false immediately

• If all pairs match, return true at the end
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