ThoughtSpot Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Domain related questions
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Q2. Configuration pf stack
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Q1. Design and code a zoo management system.
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A zoo management system to track animals, enclosures, staff, and visitor information.
• Create classes for animals, enclosures, staff, and visitors

• Implement functions for adding, updating, and deleting records

• Include features for scheduling feeding times, cleaning enclosures, and managing staff shifts
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Standard DSA questions

Q1. Standard HR stuff.
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4 Coding Questions Leetcode Level Medium to Hard. Had to solve it within 1.5 hours.

Was able to solve 2 questions - One hard and one Medium. Hadn't enough time to solve all.

Q1. DSA based round. Was asked to write 3 APIs based on the the given n-ary tree.
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Q2. Questions based on Path, end node, best path, etc.
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Q1. System Design round : Was asked to design RDBMS for the given problem.
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Q1. HM Round : Mostly behavioral based around Twilio Magic Values
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Q1. Bar Raiser Round : Taken by a director. Was asked behavioral questions again.
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Discussion about OOPS concepts and String related program

Program on Recursion and Array

Q1. Strength and Weakness
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Q2. Reason for joining with company
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Q1. Describe Life cycle in react
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React has three main phases in its lifecycle: mounting, updating, and unmounting.
• Mounting: when a component is created and inserted into the DOM

• Updating: when a component is updated due to changes in props or state

• Unmounting: when a component is removed from the DOM

• Lifecycle methods can be used to perform actions at each phase, such as componentDidMount() or componentWillUnmount()

• React also has error handling methods,
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Q2. Explain strict mode in javascript and it's use
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Strict mode is a way to write secure and optimized JavaScript code.
• Enables catching of silent errors

• Disallows duplicate property names or parameters

• Prevents use of undeclared variables

• Makes `eval()` safer to use

• Throws errors on invalid usage of `this` keyword
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CURD operations along with implementation of a mock UI

Round duration - 120 minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

This round was very difficult. I never do these much difficulty level of coding questions. But i give my best, and just do every questions by using step by step process.

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Hourglass Pattern Problem Statement
Given an integer 'N', print an hourglass pattern based on the value of 'N'.
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The first and only line of input contains an integer, denoting the value of N.
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Print an hourglass pattern based on the given integer 'N'.
• Read the integer 'N' as input

• Print the top half of the hourglass pattern with decreasing numbers

• Print the bottom half of the hourglass pattern with increasing numbers

• Handle the constraints for 'N' values between 1 and 50
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Q2. 
BFS Traversal in a Graph
Given an undirected and disconnected graph G(V, E) where V vertices are numbered from 0 to V-1, and E represents edges, your task is to output the BFS traversal starting from the ...read more
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BFS traversal in a disconnected graph starting from vertex 0.
• Use BFS algorithm to traverse the graph starting from vertex 0.

• Explore neighbor nodes first before moving to the next level neighbors.

• Consider bidirectional edges in an undirected graph.

• Output the BFS traversal sequence for each test case in a separate line.

• Ensure the BFS path starts from vertex 0 and print connected nodes in numerical sort order.
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Sort a Stack Problem Statement
You are given a stack. Your task is to sort the elements within the stack in ascending order using only push and pop operations. You are allowed to use one additional stack ...read more
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Sort a given stack in ascending order using only push and pop operations with the help of an additional stack.
• Use one additional stack to assist in sorting the elements.

• Pop elements from the input stack and push them onto the auxiliary stack in sorted order.

• Keep track of the current minimum element to maintain ascending order.

• Pop elements from the auxiliary stack back to the input stack to get the sorted order.
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Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This round is also coding round in this round we have a small video call interaction too, in which hr ask few questions to only those whose coding question is correct.

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Next Smaller Palindrome Problem Statement
You are given a palindrome number represented as a string S. Your task is to find the largest palindrome number that is strictly less than S.
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Find the largest palindrome number strictly less than a given palindrome number.
• Iterate from the middle towards the start of the number and decrement the digits to create the largest palindrome less than the given number.

• Handle cases where the number is all '9's by changing the middle digit to '9' and decrementing the rest of the digits.

• If the number has an odd length, simply mirror the first half to create the largest
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Rotting Oranges Problem Statement
You are given a grid containing oranges where each cell of the grid can contain one of the three integer values:
• 0 - representing an empty cell
• 1 - representing a fre...read more
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Find minimum time to rot all fresh oranges adjacent to rotten oranges in a grid.
• Use Breadth First Search (BFS) to simulate the rotting process.

• Track the time taken to rot all fresh oranges.

• Return -1 if all fresh oranges cannot be rotten.

• Handle edge cases like empty grid or no fresh oranges.
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Create an API using Notepad to check if a string is a palindrome or not.

Q1. Solid principal
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Q1. Basics Oops concepts and SQL queries along with currently working projects stacks
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Q1. More in-depth technical questions use of reflections etc
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Q1. Usual HR interviews company values etc
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