Smallcase Technologies Software Development Engineer II Interview Questions and Answers

Round duration - 90 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Q1. 
Cycle Detection in a Singly Linked List
Determine if a given singly linked list of integers forms a cycle or not.
A cycle in a linked list occurs when a node's next points back to a previous node in the ...read more
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Detect if a singly linked list forms a cycle by checking if a node's next points back to a previous node.
• Use Floyd's Cycle Detection Algorithm to determine if there is a cycle in the linked list.

• Maintain two pointers, one moving at double the speed of the other, if they meet at any point, there is a cycle.

• If one of the pointers reaches the end of the list (null), there is no cycle.
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Q2. 
Next Greater Element Problem Statement
Given a list of integers of size N, your task is to determine the Next Greater Element (NGE) for every element. The Next Greater Element for an element X is the firs...read more
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Find the Next Greater Element for each element in a list of integers.
• Iterate through the list of integers from right to left.

• Use a stack to keep track of elements for which the Next Greater Element is not yet found.

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

• Assign the Next Greater Element as the top element of the stack or -1 if the stack is empty.
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Q1. How would you design an ATM machine?
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Designing an ATM machine involves considering user interface, security measures, transaction processing, and hardware components.
• User interface should be intuitive and easy to navigate for users of all ages.

• Implement security measures such as PIN entry, card authentication, and encryption to protect user data.

• Transaction processing should be fast and reliable, with options for cash withdrawals, deposits, transfers, and...read more
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Round duration - 45 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

2 questions. 1 was basic level. 2 was of medium level.

Q1. An ambiguous problem statement was given. Asking relevant questions revealed the problem to be largest island in a binary matrix. Was asked to code on an ide. And reduce space complexity to O(1).
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Q2. Maximum sum path from root to leaf in an N-ary tree. Was asked to design an appropriate data structure. Then code the solution in O(n) time and O(1) space.
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Q1. Through discuss of projects. Methods used.
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Q2. First missing positive number in an array of integer in O(n) time O(1) space.
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Find first missing positive number in an array in O(n) time and O(1) space.
• Traverse the array and mark the presence of each positive integer by changing the sign of the corresponding index.

• Traverse the array again and return the index of the first positive integer.

• If all integers are present, return the length of the array + 1.

• Example: [3, 4, -1, 1] => mark 3rd and 4th index as negative => return 2.

• Example: [1, 2, 0] =...read more
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Q3. Given an integer, print the relevant column name in an excel sheet. Ex: 1- A , 2-B.......... 26-Z , 27-AA, 28-AB........ Was asked code on an ide and test cases were given.
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Given an integer, print the relevant column name in an excel sheet.
• Create a string array of alphabets from A to Z

• Use modulo operator to get remainder and divide by 26 to get quotient

• Append the corresponding alphabet to the result string

• Reverse the result string
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Q1. What are your salary expectations?
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Topics:-
Duration-1.5 hours
Kadane's Algorithm, Even Numbers at even index & odd at odd index, print out the second highest node of the tree

Q1. DSA ZigZag tree traversal OS Architecture of RAM Types of RAM Difference between compiler and interpreter What is a scheduler What is multithreading Disadvantages of FCFS and how can we use RoundRobin to ...read more
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ZigZag tree traversal is a method to traverse a binary tree in a zigzag pattern.
• In ZigZag tree traversal, we visit the nodes of a binary tree in a zigzag pattern, moving from left to right and then right to left.

• We can use a stack or a queue to implement ZigZag tree traversal.

• The algorithm involves maintaining two stacks or two queues to keep track of the nodes at each level.

• We start with the root node and alternate be...read more
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Maths,quant for 1 hour duration

Arrays, strings, linked list, palindrome

Arrays, LinkedList basic dsa questions

Q1. Binary Tree 2nd largest node
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To find the 2nd largest node in a binary tree, we can perform an in-order traversal and keep track of the two largest nodes.
• Perform an in-order traversal of the binary tree

• Keep track of the two largest nodes encountered

• Return the second largest node when traversal is complete
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Q2. Basic web questions
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Easy coding question generally A, B level question of codeforces

Q1. OOPs, DBMS , Computer network and some basics over java
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