SpeedLabs Software Developer Intern Interview Questions and Answers for Freshers

Round duration - 45 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Timing (10 am- 11 am)
For this round I had slightly more time than the last, due to the fact that the weekend fell in between.The interviewer was very very cool and helping this time, something which I kept at the last in my list of probable things that can happen during an interview. Duration of this round was around 45 minutes.

Q1. 
Connecting Ropes with Minimum Cost
You are given 'N' ropes, each of varying lengths. The task is to connect all ropes into one single rope. The cost of connecting two ropes is the sum of their lengths. Yo...read more
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Connect ropes with minimum cost by merging smallest ropes first.
• Sort the array of rope lengths in ascending order.

• Merge the two smallest ropes at each step to minimize cost.

• Keep track of the total cost as you merge the ropes.

• Repeat the merging process until all ropes are connected.

• Return the total cost as the minimum cost to connect all ropes.
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Q2. 
Validate Binary Search Tree (BST)
You are given a binary tree with 'N' integer nodes. Your task is to determine whether this binary tree is a Binary Search Tree (BST).
BST Definition:
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Validate if a given binary tree is a Binary Search Tree (BST) or not.
• Check if the left subtree of a node contains only nodes with data less than the node's data.

• Check if the right subtree of a node contains only nodes with data greater than the node's data.

• Recursively check if both the left and right subtrees are also binary search trees.
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Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round was on call where I was just supposed to answer the HRquestions that were asked. It started with a brief interview with one another and then moved to questions on DBMS, operating systems, computer networks and all. Almost 10-15 questions were asked and I probably answered 90% of them correctly.