Philips Scrum Master Interview Questions and Answers

It was a basic assessment on numerical n logical reasoning

A group discussion on basic current topics

Q1. Tell me about yourself
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Q1. Job/function related questions
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Q1. Behavioral questions
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Q1. Fish bone analysis
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Q2. How to improve performance of processes
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Improving process performance involves identifying bottlenecks and inefficiencies, implementing automation, setting clear goals, and continuous monitoring.
• Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in the process

• Implement automation to streamline tasks and reduce manual errors

• Set clear goals and key performance indicators (KPIs) to track progress

• Continuously monitor and analyze process performance to make necessary adjust...read more
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Q1. Java basic coding
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Q1. Behavioral questions
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Round duration - 180 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Round was held in the morning at 10 am.

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M - Coloring Problem Statement
Given an undirected graph with 'N' nodes in the form of an adjacency matrix and an integer 'M', determine if it is possible to color the vertices of the graph using at most ...read more
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The problem involves determining if a given graph can be colored with at most 'M' colors without adjacent vertices sharing the same color.
• Create a function that takes the adjacency matrix, number of nodes 'N', and maximum number of colors 'M' as input.

• Implement a graph coloring algorithm such as backtracking or greedy coloring to check if the graph can be colored with at most 'M' colors.

• Check if adjacent vertices have ...read more
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Round duration - 40 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

The round was held in the evening

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Trie Data Structure Implementation
Design and implement a Trie (prefix tree) to perform the following operations:
• insert(word): Add a string "word" to the Trie.
• search(word): Verify if the string "w...read more
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Implement a Trie data structure to insert, search, and check for prefixes in strings.
• Create a TrieNode class with children and isEndOfWord attributes.

• Implement insert, search, and startsWith methods in the Trie class.

• Use a Trie to efficiently store and search for strings based on prefixes.

• Example: insert 'apple', search 'apple' returns true, startsWith 'app' returns true, search 'app' returns false.
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Round duration - 10 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Was held in the morning around 9 am

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This was coding round and was conducted on Cocubes platform. It is not IDE but kind of white board coding platform. C/C++, Java and Python were only allowed languages.

Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This was pen and paper round. Total 40 shortlisted candidates were grouped into 8 groups (each of 5). Each group was given a coding question which they have to solve on paper and explain it to the recruiter. 2 to 3 from each group were selected for the next round.

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This was general face to face Data Structures and Algorithms based round.

Q1. How do you perform a spiral order traversal of a binary tree? Please provide an explanation or code to print the binary tree in spiral order.
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Spiral order traversal of a binary tree involves printing nodes level by level alternating between left to right and right to left.
• Start by pushing the root node into a queue.

• While the queue is not empty, pop a node, print its value, and push its children into the queue.

• For each level, alternate between printing nodes from left to right and right to left.

• Repeat until all nodes are printed in spiral order.
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Round duration - 45 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was the last round.