Spinny Software Engineer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Round duration - 45 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This was a coding test with 2 DSA questions.

Q1. 
Merge Two Sorted Arrays Problem Statement
Given two sorted integer arrays ARR1 and ARR2 of size M and N, respectively, merge them into ARR1 as one sorted array. Assume that ARR1 has a size of M + N to hol...read more
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Merge two sorted arrays into one sorted array in place.
• Iterate from the end of both arrays and compare elements to merge in place

• Use two pointers to keep track of the current position in each array

• Handle cases where one array is fully merged before the other
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Q2. 
Count Ways to Reach the Nth Stair
Given a number of stairs, starting from the 0th stair, calculate the number of distinct ways you can reach the Nth stair. You can climb either one step or two steps at a ...read more
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The question is about calculating the number of distinct ways to reach the Nth stair by climbing one or two steps at a time.
• Use dynamic programming to solve this problem efficiently.

• Define a recursive function to calculate the number of ways to reach each stair.

• Consider base cases for 0 and 1 stairs.

• Use memoization to store intermediate results and avoid redundant calculations.

• Handle large values of N by taking modulo ...read more
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This was the first round with questions on DSA and Low Level design.

Q1. 
Trapping Rain Water Problem Statement
You are given a long type array/list ARR of size N, representing an elevation map. The value ARR[i] denotes the elevation of the ith bar. Your task is to determine th...read more
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Calculate the total amount of rainwater that can be trapped between given elevations in an array.
• Iterate through the array and calculate the maximum height on the left and right of each bar.

• Calculate the amount of water that can be trapped at each bar by taking the minimum of the maximum heights on the left and right.

• Sum up the trapped water at each bar to get the total trapped water for the entire array.
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Q2. Can you provide a low-level design of a hotel management system?
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A low-level design of a hotel management system involves detailing the system's components and their interactions.
• Define classes for entities like Room, Guest, Reservation, and Staff

• Implement functions for booking rooms, checking availability, and managing guest information

• Include modules for billing, housekeeping, and reporting

• Utilize databases for storing information and APIs for external integrations
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Dsa and alogorithm by third party agency.

Q1. One Dynamic programming question
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DSA - arrays, hashing, stack, 2hrs , google meet

Q1. Low level design , OOPs, modular code,
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Q2. Crickbuzz- players, teams, score
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