Publicis Sapient Junior Associate Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Self introduction
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Questions from LR, QA, VA, OOPs, RDBMS, DSA, programming language of your choice.

2 coding questions- to be done only on java

Q1. 2 puzzles, Java interview questions
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Q2. 2 coding problems, Data structures theory
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Q1. Basic HR questions about yourself and previous round experience
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Q1. Write a method to count the number of vowels in a given string?
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This method counts the number of vowels in a given string, helping to analyze text for vowel frequency.
• Define a method that takes a string as input.

• Initialize a counter to zero to keep track of the number of vowels.

• Iterate through each character in the string and check if it is a vowel (a, e, i, o, u).

• If a vowel is found, increment the counter.

• Return the final count of vowels after the loop.
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Q2. Write a method to count the number of alphabets in a given string?
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This method counts the number of alphabetic characters in a given string, ignoring spaces and punctuation.
• Iterate through each character in the string and check if it is an alphabet using isalpha() method.

• Maintain a counter that increments for each alphabetic character found.

• Return the final count after checking all characters.

• Example: For the string 'Hello, World!', the count would be 10.
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Round duration - 75 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

It happened at 4pm in evening. The platform was good. No technical issues experienced. It covered questions from Quantitative Aptitude, English,Input Output Questions, OOPS, a coding question.

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Next Greater Element Problem Statement
You are given an array arr of length N. For each element in the array, find the next greater element (NGE) that appears to the right. If there is no such greater ele...read more
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The task is to find the next greater element for each element in an array to its right, if no greater element exists, return -1.
• Iterate through the array from right to left and use a stack to keep track of elements.

• Pop elements from the stack until a greater element is found or the stack is empty.

• Store the next greater element for each element in the output array.
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Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Happened on Microsoft teams. 2 coding questions on strings were given and some real life examples of OOPS concepts were asked. Then SQL queries were asked.

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Count Substrings with K Distinct Characters
Given a lowercase string 'STR' and an integer K, the task is to count all possible substrings that consist of exactly K distinct characters. These substrings ar...read more
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Count substrings with exactly K distinct characters in a given lowercase string.
• Iterate through all substrings of the given string and count the number of distinct characters in each substring.

• Keep track of substrings with exactly K distinct characters and increment the count.

• Return the total count of substrings with exactly K distinct characters.
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Q2. Can you explain JOINS in SQL?
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JOINS in SQL are used to combine rows from two or more tables based on a related column between them.
• JOINS are used to retrieve data from multiple tables based on a related column

• Types of JOINS include INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN, RIGHT JOIN, and FULL JOIN

• Example: SELECT * FROM table1 INNER JOIN table2 ON table1.column = table2.column
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Round duration - 15 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

A situational and a behavioral round. Candidates were assessed on how they will react to certain situations. It happened on Microsoft Teams

Q1. How would you convey your disagreement to your manager regarding a specific aspect of a project?
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