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Updated 15 Sep 2021

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I was interviewed in Oct 2020.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

(1 Question)

Round duration - 70 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

It consisted of 17 MCQ based on networking and 3 coding questions. Among those one coding question was on practical implementation.

  • Q1. 

    Recycling Pens Problem Statement

    Imagine you have a certain number of empty pens, and some money in your pocket. For each pen, you can choose to either recycle it for a reward or buy a refill to make it u...

  • Ans. Bruteforce
    • We will iterate through all possible values of the usable pen, i.e from 0 to N and try to find out whether we can make these many usable pens or not.
    • Let’s say we currently want to find whether we can make X usable pens or not. To do so we will require X refills and buy X refills we need X*C amount of money.
    • We keep X pens and sell N - X pens. We will get (N-X)*K amount of money from selling it.
    • So total money w...
  • Answered Anonymously
Round 2 - Video Call 

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

It was around 5-6 p.m. The interviewer was very easy to talk to. They went straight to the questions and asked me if I had any doubts in the end.

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI completed Information Technology from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. I applied for the job as SDE - Intern in BangaloreEligibility criteriaReputed College, or good profile.Postman interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - NodeJS, HTTP, TCP, DBMS, Web ArchitectureTime required to prepare for the interview - 3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Know NodeJS completely from inside out. Focus on NodeJS event loop and knowing how callbacks occur.
Tip 2 : Have in-depth knowledge of all database concepts. eg. Knowing indexing is not enough, but how it is implemented is.
Tip 3 : Make good projects on NodeJS.
Tip 4 : Have in-depth knowledge of networking concepts especially TCP.
Tip 5 : Know the company better.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Projects on NodeJS are a must and mentioning javascript too.
Tip 2 : Having a good college name, or Google Summer of Code kind of experiences helps.

Final outcome of the interviewRejected

Skills evaluated in this interview

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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Kota and was interviewed in Dec 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

A 90-minute coding test on HackerRank, which includes one medium, one easy, and one hard question.

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is the index of the first occurrence where a pattern string matches with a text string?
  • Q2. Given a string, how can we find the minimum length substring whose sum is greater than or equal to a specified target?
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via campus placement at Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida and was interviewed in Jul 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Questions on DSA were asked by the interviewer at first.
  • Q2. Some theoretical questions from DBMS and oops and also asked to write some SQL queries.
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. This round was also similar to the first technical round at first given a DSA question.
  • Q2. After that I was asked to write some SQL queries and also questions from resume were asked.
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. This was managerial round which was was offline in person interview. At first he asked sone basic DBMS and oops questions.
  • Q2. Then gave me a question and asked me to write a complex SQL query.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Brush up DSA and work on SQL queries.
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

There are 3 questions moderate one with topics like dp ( edit distance variant ), dequeue and hashing question. I cleared the test and move forward to interview round 1

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Write code for Topological sort?
  • Ans. 

    Topological sort is a linear ordering of vertices in a directed acyclic graph.

    • Use Depth First Search (DFS) to visit each vertex and add it to the result list after visiting all its neighbors.

    • Maintain a visited set to keep track of visited vertices and a result list to store the sorted order.

    • If a cycle is detected during DFS, the graph is not a DAG and topological sort is not possible.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. A implementation Based question of a data structure on merging square with many constraints.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare you DSA very well if want to get the offer.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in May 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Some Objective questions and 1 Coding Questions

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Situation based questions on Coroutines
  • Q2. About Project Tech Stack Used and Questions on that
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via campus placement at Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore and was interviewed before May 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

We had 21 questions including 3 coding questions. It was simple and beginners friendly questions

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions were asked based on DBMS, SQL, api, simple coding and testing
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. I was asked to describe my projects and questions were asked based on that. Had scenario based questions
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via campus placement at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal and was interviewed in Mar 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

There were 3 questions in the online assessment.

1 - Binary Search
2 - DP
3 - Graphs

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Implement a persistence stack with constant time operations
  • Ans. 

    Implement a persistence stack with constant time operations

    • Use a combination of a stack and a hashmap to achieve constant time operations for push, pop, and get operations

    • Maintain a stack to store the elements and a hashmap to store the index of each element in the stack

    • When pushing an element, add it to the stack and update its index in the hashmap

    • When popping an element, remove it from the stack and also remove its i...

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Median of two sorted arrays and OOPs basics
  • Ans. 

    Finding the median of two sorted arrays and discussing OOPs basics

    • To find the median of two sorted arrays, merge the arrays and then calculate the median

    • OOPs basics include concepts like encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and abstraction

    • Example: Median of [1, 3] and [2] is 2.0

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Technical round
  • Q2. Append element into Array question
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Vector question on array
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Vector based question less time complexity

I was interviewed in Apr 2022.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

(1 Question)

Round duration - 120 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

  • Q1. 

    Inorder Traversal of Binary Tree

    You are provided with a Binary Tree composed of 'N' nodes, each holding integer values. Your task is to compute the Inorder traversal of this binary tree.

    Example:

    For t...
  • Ans. 

    The task is to find the in-order traversal of a given binary tree.

    • Implement a recursive function to perform in-order traversal of the binary tree

    • Start from the left subtree, then visit the root node, and finally visit the right subtree

    • Use an array to store the values of the nodes in the in-order traversal

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Video Call 

(1 Question)

Round duration - 50 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Interview on google meet

  • Q1. Given two tables, how would you return an inner join on a common column (key)?
  • Ans. 

    The inner join operation combines rows from two tables based on a common column (key).

    • Use the JOIN keyword in the SQL query to perform an inner join.

    • Specify the common column (key) in the ON clause of the join.

    • The result will contain only the matching rows from both tables.

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - Video Call 

(1 Question)

Round duration - 50 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

  • Q1. 

    Search in a Row-wise and Column-wise Sorted Matrix Problem Statement

    You are given an N * N matrix of integers where each row and each column is sorted in increasing order. Your task is to find the positi...

  • Ans. 

    Given a sorted matrix, find the position of a target integer in the matrix.

    • Iterate through each row and column of the matrix

    • Compare the target integer with the current element

    • If the target integer is found, return the position

    • If the target integer is not found, return {-1, -1}

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI applied for the job as SDE - Intern in BengaluruEligibility criteriaNo criteriaSpringworks interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming, RecursionTime required to prepare for the interview - 3 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Focus on data-structures and algorithms fundamentals
Tip 2 : Learn Javascript fundamentals for interviews
Tip 3 : Having good projects on resume is an added advantage

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Do not put false projects on resume.
Tip 2 : Have good projects on your resume

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

I was interviewed in Jan 2022.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

(3 Questions)

Round duration - 3 Hours
Round difficulty - Hard

3 Coding questions ( 1 medium graph dfs based question , 2 hard level prefix array question ans 3 was a hard question which I don't remember)

2 Database question ( It mostly includes joining 2-3 tables and then you would be able to solve it)

  • Q1. 

    Number of Islands Problem Statement

    You are provided with a 2-dimensional matrix having N rows and M columns, containing only 1s (land) and 0s (water). Your goal is to determine the number of islands in t...

  • Ans. Flood Fill Algorithm

    We can use the flood fill algorithm to check for all connected 1s.

     

    • We create two arrays, dx, and dy, in which we store the unit vectors for all eight directions. Thus, when we are at a given cell, we can easily check for all its adjacent cells by simply looping over the two arrays, adding their values to the current position, and checking for this new position recursively.
    • We will also create a ...
  • Answered Anonymously
  • Q2. 

    Maximum Product Subarray Problem Statement

    Given an array of integers, determine the contiguous subarray that produces the maximum product of its elements.

    Explanation:

    A subarray can be derived from th...

  • Ans. Brute-force

    Steps:

    1. Create an ans variable and initialize it to INT_MIN.
    2. Run a loop i = 0 to N and do:
      • Run a loop j = i to N and do:
        • Create a variable, say currentProduct and initialize it to 1.
        • Run a loop k = i to j and do:
          • currentProduct = currentProduct * arr[k]
          • Store the maximum of ans and the currentProduct in the ans variable.
    3. Finally, return the ans variable.
    Space Complexity: O(1)Explanation:

    O(1)

     

    Constant space is u...

  • Answered Anonymously
  • Q3. You were given 3-4 models in a DBMS context. How did you join those models to obtain the desired result?
Round 2 - Video Call 

Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

These rounds depends on the type of interviewer.
My friends were asked questions from DSA but from me they asked a lot of questions on Node.JS and React.

Round 3 - Video Call 

Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round depends on your interviewer.
My colleagues were asked questions from DS but my interviewer focused just on javascript.

Round 4 - Telephonic Call 

(1 Question)

Round duration - 45 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was a managerial round they will test your communication and how well do you handle situations in your life

  • Q1. What is one of the most challenging situations you have faced in your life, and how did you handle it?
  • Ans. 

    Tip 1 : just be confident and communicate with them
     

  • Answered Anonymously

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaMinimum 6 GPASpringworks interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - React, Data structures, SQl, Java, Node.JSTime required to prepare for the interview - 12 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Cpanies like SpringWorks are more focused on Development so make sure you have good knowledge in Javascript
Tip 2 : Complete 100-150 questions easy/medium questions on leetcode like 3 sum or invert binary tree
Tip 3 : Have a good knowledge of any RDBMS.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Make sure your resume is not filled with lots of colors try to give it a simple look
Tip 2 : Mention only those skills in which you have minimum intermediate knowledge ex if you know docker but haven't used it nicely then just don't mention it

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

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