PowerSchool India Associate Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was an coding round

Q1. 
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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Compute the skyline of given rectangular buildings in a 2D city, eliminating hidden lines and forming the outer contour of the silhouette.
• Iterate through the buildings and create a list of critical points (x, y) where the height changes.

• Sort the critical points based on x-coordinate and process them to form the skyline.

• Merge consecutive horizontal segments of equal height into one to ensure no duplicates.

• Return the fin...read more
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Q2. 
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.

• Recursively try moving in all directions (up, down, left, right) until reaching the destination.

• Return a list of strings representing valid paths sorted in alphabetical order.
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Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was an HR round with some general questions. it was just for formality.

Q1. Q1 difference between let and const
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Q2. Q2 what are closures?
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Q3. Q3. What is typeof null
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typeof null returns 'object' in JavaScript.
• typeof null is 'object' in JavaScript

• This is a historical bug in JavaScript that has not been fixed for backward compatibility

• Example: console.log(typeof null) will output 'object'
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Q1. Q1. Find palindrome strings in an array of strings.
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Finding palindrome strings in an array of strings.
• Iterate through each string in the array.

• For each string, check if it is equal to its reverse to determine if it is a palindrome.

• Store palindrome strings in a separate array or print them out.
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Q2. Q2. Explain debouncing with example.
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Q1. What is react, diff between react and angular, deep copy shallow copy, hoisting, diff between props and state
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React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It is different from Angular in various ways.
• React is a library while Angular is a framework

• React uses virtual DOM while Angular uses real DOM

• React is more flexible and easier to learn than Angular

• Deep copy creates a new object with the same values while shallow copy creates a new reference to the same object

• Hoisting is a JavaScript mechanism where variables a...read more
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Q2. Implement custom hooks and array flat method
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Implement custom hooks and array flat method
• Custom hooks are reusable functions that allow you to extract component logic into reusable functions

• Array flat method is used to flatten an array of nested arrays into a single array

• To implement custom hooks, create a function that uses the useState and useEffect hooks

• To implement array flat method, use the reduce method to flatten the array
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Python technical SQL basic

Q1. Check if string is palindrome
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