Tech Mahindra SDE-2 Interview Questions and Answers

Round duration - 360 minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

Timing- Any 6 hours of my choice in the 24 hour window. (10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. I selected)
Environment was very friendly and easy to use.
No significant activity.
This was the only coding round.

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Prime Time Again Problem Statement
You are given two integers DAY_HOURS and PARTS. The integer 'DAY_HOURS' represents the number of hours in a day, and the day can be divided into 'PARTS' equal parts. You...read more
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Find total instances of equivalent prime groups in a day divided into equal parts.
• Iterate through each part of the day and check for prime pairs in different parts

• Use a helper function to check if a number is prime

• Ensure the day is evenly divided by parts and each prime group has hours from different parts
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Round duration - 10-15 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Timing- 12:15 p.m. 
Environment was very good .
Not any significant activity.
The interviewer was very friendly and talked like friends.

Round duration - 20 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Timing- 12:30 p.m. to 12:45 p.m
Environment was very comfortable.
No other significant activity.
Interviewer was very good and talking very politely & friendly.

Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

It was in the morning about 10:00AM-10:40AM. The platform used for this round was hackerrank. There are 15 MCQ's which cover portions of Aptitude, Data Structures, DBMS, SQL

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Minimum Operations Problem Statement
You are given an array 'ARR' of size 'N' consisting of positive integers. Your task is to determine the minimum number of operations required to make all elements in t...read more
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Minimum number of operations to make all elements in the array equal by performing addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.
• Iterate through the array to find the maximum and minimum values.

• Calculate the difference between the maximum and minimum values.

• The minimum number of operations needed is the difference between the maximum and minimum values.
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Round duration - 15 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was in the night around 7:00PM-7:20PM. Platform used for this round was skype. Interviewer was very serious while taking my interview.

Round duration - 180 minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

Timing: 8 a.m. to 11a.m.
Environment was optimum.
No significant activity.

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Edit Distance Problem Statement
Given two strings S and T with lengths N and M respectively, your task is to find the "Edit Distance" between these strings.
The Edit Distance is defined as the minimum nu...read more
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The task is to find the minimum number of operations required to convert one string into another using delete, replace, and insert operations.
• Use dynamic programming to solve the problem efficiently.

• Create a 2D array to store the minimum edit distance for substrings of the two input strings.

• Iterate through the strings and update the array based on the operations needed for each character.

• Return the value in the bottom ...read more
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Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Timing: 12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The environment was quite good.
No significant activity.
Interviewers were very friendly. They were behaving like friends.

Round duration - 15 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Timing: 3:00 p.m. to 3:20 p.m.
Environment was very good.
No significant activity was monitored.
HR was very good and friendly.

Aptitude test on CS subjects like C programming, DBMS, CN, and OS.

There were 2 input-output based questions of easy to moderate level

Every candidate was given an individual topic and was asked to speak on it

Q1. Some typical HR questions
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Aptitude, reasoning, English, cloud sections

2 questions in which , one has to complete within an 50 minutes

Q1. Tell me about t Yourself
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Q2. What are the previous experiences
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Q1. Basic questions of java.
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Q1. Intro and other hr related questions.
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