Nomura Structured Finance Services Software Developer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Tell me something about yourself
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Q2. Tell about the recent project that you have worked upon
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Q1. What are your salary expectations?
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Q2. Why are you looking fir change
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This round consisted of multiple choice questions based on angular and java. I was asked to design a 3X3 grid that should listen to the click event and the selected grid should change the color to green.

Q1. Longest common subsequence of two string
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The longest common subsequence of two strings is the longest sequence of characters that appear in the same order in both strings.
• Use dynamic programming to solve this problem efficiently.

• Create a 2D array to store the lengths of the longest common subsequences.

• Iterate through the characters of both strings and update the array based on the matching characters.

• Trace back the array to find the longest common subsequence
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Q2. Logical questions, questions about my project
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Q1. Why this company, will you be able to relocate to given city
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Q1. Basics are more important with good communication skills
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Q1. Basics of SQL Basics CMD commands SQL query
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Calaender based questions

Q1. 
Alien Dictionary Problem Statement
You are provided with a sorted dictionary (by lexical order) in an alien language. Your task is to determine the character order of the alien language from this dictiona...read more
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Q2. 
The Skyline Problem
Compute the skyline of given rectangular buildings in a 2D city, eliminating hidden lines and forming the outer contour of the silhouette when viewed from a distance. Each building is ...read more
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Reverse Words In A String Problem Statement
Given a string of length N, reverse the string word by word. Ensure that the output reversed string has a single space between two words and does not contain le...read more
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Q4. 
Flood Fill Algorithm Task
Assist Ninja in altering the color of a specific region in his photo. Given the image as a 2D array where each pixel is a positive integer, update the color of a specified pixel ...read more
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First round was an API challenge in which we need to submit our names Reg No. and other details by using an API provided by the company .

Then the second round was coding round in which there were 19 coding multiple choice questions and 2 coding questions based on the profile we applied for . It was 1 hour and 15 mins long test

Q1. The interviewer asked me to intruduce myself and explain the projects on my profile . Then he asked me to few basic questions about Javascript and few coding questions and asked me write psuedo code for th...read more
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Q1. Hr Asked me to intruduce myself and asked me to tell 5 things that arent on my resume , Then she further asked me if i am willing to relocate .She asked me if i am okay with working on diffrent domains if...read more
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Round duration - 120 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Round duration - 120 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Q1. 
Rat in a Maze Problem Statement
You need to determine all possible paths for a rat starting at position (0, 0) in a square maze to reach its destination at (N-1, N-1). The maze is represented as an N*N ma...read more
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Find all possible paths for a rat in a maze from source to destination.
• Use backtracking to explore all possible paths in the maze.

• Keep track of visited cells to avoid revisiting them.

• Explore all possible directions ('U', 'D', 'L', 'R') from each cell.

• Return the list of valid paths sorted in alphabetical order.
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Q2. 
Word Presence in Sentence
Determine if a given word 'W' is present in the sentence 'S' as a complete word. The word should not merely be a substring of another word.
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The first line contains an in...read more
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Check if a given word is present in a sentence as a complete word.
• Split the sentence into words using spaces as delimiter.

• Check if the given word matches any of the words in the sentence.

• Ensure the word is not a substring of another word in the sentence.
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