Tek Travels Interview Questions and Answers

Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Questions on aptitude, English, logical reasoning, C/C++ and 5 coding ques. (only pseudo code).

Q1. 
Minimum Jumps Problem Statement
Bob and his wife are in the famous 'Arcade' mall in the city of Berland. This mall has a unique way of moving between shops using trampolines. Each shop is laid out in a st...read more
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Find the minimum number of trampoline jumps Bob needs to make to reach the final shop, or return -1 if it's impossible.
• Use Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm to find the minimum number of jumps required.

• Keep track of the visited shops to avoid revisiting them.

• If a shop has an Arr value of 0, it is impossible to reach the final shop.

• Return -1 if the final shop cannot be reached.
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Q2. 
Smallest Window Problem Statement
Given two strings, S and X, your task is to find the smallest substring in S that contains all the characters present in X.
Example:
Input:
S = "abdd", X = "bd"
Outpu...read more
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Find the smallest substring in S that contains all characters in X.
• Use a sliding window approach to find the smallest window in S containing all characters of X.

• Maintain a hashmap to keep track of characters in X and their frequencies in the current window.

• Slide the window to the right, updating the hashmap and shrinking the window until all characters in X are present.

• Return the smallest window found.

• Example: S = 'abd
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Q3. 
Rat in a Maze Problem Statement
You need to determine all possible paths for a rat starting at position (0, 0) in a square maze to reach its destination at (N-1, N-1). The maze is represented as an N*N ma...read more
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Find all possible paths for a rat in a maze from start to destination.
• Use backtracking to explore all possible paths in the maze.

• Keep track of visited cells to avoid revisiting them.

• Return paths in alphabetical order as a list of strings.
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Questions based on OOPS were asked in this round.

Q1. What is a virtual function?
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A virtual function is a function in a base class that is declared using the keyword 'virtual' and can be overridden by a function with the same signature in a derived class.
• Virtual functions allow for dynamic polymorphism in C++

• They are used in inheritance to achieve runtime polymorphism

• Virtual functions are declared in a base class and can be overridden in derived classes

• They are called based on the type of object bei...read more
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Q2. What are the types of polymorphism in Object-Oriented Programming?
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Types of polymorphism in OOP include compile-time (method overloading) and runtime (method overriding) polymorphism.
• Compile-time polymorphism is achieved through method overloading, where multiple methods have the same name but different parameters.

• Runtime polymorphism is achieved through method overriding, where a subclass provides a specific implementation of a method that is already defined in its superclass.

• Polymor...read more
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Q3. What is the difference between deep copy and shallow copy?
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Deep copy creates a new object and recursively copies all nested objects, while shallow copy creates a new object and copies only the references to nested objects.
• Deep copy creates a new object and copies all nested objects, while shallow copy creates a new object and copies only the references to nested objects.

• In deep copy, changes made to the original object do not affect the copied object, while in shallow copy, ch...read more
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Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

HR round with typical behavioral problems.

Round duration - 75 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This was the online round held at university. All students who met the eligibility criteria were called for the online test on hackerrank.

Q1. 
Anagram Difference Problem Statement
Given two strings, 'STR1' and 'STR2', of equal lengths, determine the minimum number of manipulations required to make the two strings anagrams of each other.
Input:
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Ans. 
The problem involves finding the minimum number of manipulations required to make two strings anagrams of each other.
• Create frequency maps for both strings

• Find the absolute difference in frequencies of each character

• Sum up the absolute differences to get the total manipulations needed
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Round duration - 90 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round was technical round and the interview started with formal introduction and general questions.
After that We had a discussion on LRU Cache.
Followed by coding and set of data structure questions.

Q1. 
Gas Tank Problem Statement
You have a car with a gas tank of infinite capacity. There are 'N' gas stations located along a circular route, numbered from 0 to N-1. You begin your journey with an empty tank...read more
Ans. 
Find the starting gas station index to complete a circular route with gas and cost arrays.
• Iterate through gas stations, keeping track of total gas and total cost from each station

• If total gas is greater than or equal to total cost, update the starting station index

• Return the starting station index if a valid one is found, else return -1
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Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This Round was DS and Algo round and it started with formal introduction, followed by 2 problems. We first dicussed the approach the time complexity and proper code covering all cases.

Q1. 
Boundary Traversal of Binary Tree
Given a binary tree of integers, your task is to print the boundary nodes of this binary tree in an anti-clockwise direction starting from the root node.
Input:
The fir...read more
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Print the boundary nodes of a binary tree in an anti-clockwise direction starting from the root node.
• Traverse the left boundary nodes from the root to the leftmost leaf node.

• Traverse the leaf nodes from left to right.

• Traverse the right boundary nodes from the rightmost leaf node to the root.
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Q2. 
Maximum Sum of Two Non-Overlapping Subarrays
Given an integer array ARR and a positive integer K, your objective is to find two non-overlapping subarrays (contiguous) of length K each, such that their sum...read more
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Find two non-overlapping subarrays of length K with maximum sum in an integer array.
• Iterate through the array to find all possible subarrays of length K.

• Calculate the sum of each pair of non-overlapping subarrays of length K.

• Keep track of the maximum sum obtained from the pairs of subarrays.
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Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This was the Final Interview and it started with formal introduction and general HR questions. Then We discussed about the projects and the things written in my resume. The interviewer was very frank and this round was very interactive. He asked me about my college, my future plans, teachers, various subjects, why Expedia and questions like that.