ShieldSquare Associate Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

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

Q1. What is the index of the first occurrence where a pattern string matches with a text string?
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Q2. Given a string, how can we find the minimum length substring whose sum is greater than or equal to a specified target?
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2 Leetcode Medium questions on hackerrank

Q1. Kadane algorithm based question
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Q2. Leetcode medium
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Q3. Resume based questions
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Q1. Probability question math problem
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Q2. Puzzle to solve
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Q3. AI based question
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Q4. 1 question to solve Leetcode medium
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Q1. Oops concepts and ask defination of all concepts
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Q2. Pattern program using any language
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Print a pattern program using any programming language
• Use nested loops to print the desired pattern

• Identify the pattern and determine the number of rows and columns needed

• Experiment with different loop structures to achieve the desired output
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Q1. Tell me about yourself
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Q2. Why are you want to join us
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Medium to hard questions based on arrays, dp

Q1. Quick sort algorithm
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Quick sort is a popular sorting algorithm that uses divide and conquer strategy.
• Divides array into smaller sub-arrays based on a pivot element

• Recursively sorts sub-arrays

• Combines sorted sub-arrays to get final sorted array

• Time complexity: O(n log n) on average, O(n^2) worst case

• Example: [3, 6, 8, 10, 1, 2, 1] -> [1, 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 10]
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Q2. Modified rotate a matrix
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Rotate a matrix by 90 degrees in place
• Transpose the matrix

• Reverse each row of the transposed matrix
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Q1. Promises in javascript
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Promises in JavaScript are objects representing the eventual completion or failure of an asynchronous operation.
• Promises are used to handle asynchronous operations in JavaScript.

• They can be in one of three states: pending, fulfilled, or rejected.

• Promises can be chained using .then() to handle success and .catch() to handle errors.
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Q1. Word Search Problem Backtracking Leetcode
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2 DSA questions Both are from DP

Q1. 2 Questions , 1 is DSA
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Q2. Second question is Puzzle
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