Tsaaro Internship Trainee Interview Questions and Answers

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

It started with an informal talk after he gave his introduction. We talked about the cyclone that was going to be there and what I did in my internship and my previous projects. Then we moved to questions. After solving both questions he asked if I had questions.

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Kth Largest Element Problem Statement
Given an array of distinct positive integers and a number 'K', your task is to find the K'th largest element in the array.
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Input:
Array: [2,1,5,6,3,8], K ...read more
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Find the Kth largest element in an array of distinct positive integers.
• Sort the array in non-increasing order

• Return the Kth element from the sorted array

• Handle multiple test cases
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Orange Rotting Problem Statement
Consider a grid containing oranges. Each cell in this grid can hold one of three integer values:
• Value 0: Represents an empty cell.
• Value 1: Represents a fresh orang...read more
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The task is to determine the minimum time required for all fresh oranges to become rotten in a grid.
• Create a queue to store the rotten oranges and their time of rotting.

• Iterate through the grid to find the initial rotten oranges and add them to the queue.

• Perform BFS by popping each rotten orange from the queue, rot adjacent fresh oranges, and add them to the queue with updated time.

• Continue until the queue is empty, ke...read more
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Round duration - 45 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This was a design round.

Q1. A brief introduction about yourself
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Q1. Just a normal conversation and self handling situation
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

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Find the k-th Node from the End of a Linked List
Given the head node of a singly linked list and an integer 'k', this problem requires you to determine the value at the k-th node from the end of the linke...read more
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To find the k-th node from the end of a linked list, iterate through the list to determine the size, then traverse again to reach the k-th node from the end.
• Iterate through the linked list to determine its size.

• Calculate the position of the k-th node from the end based on the size of the list.

• Traverse the list again to reach the k-th node from the end.

• Return a pointer to the k-th node from the end.
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

High level System Design

Q1. Can you design a system like Uber, explaining the various components and architecture involved?
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Designing a system like Uber involves components like user app, driver app, server, database, and algorithms for matching and routing.
• User app for booking rides and tracking

• Driver app for accepting rides and navigation

• Server for handling requests and communication between apps

• Database for storing user, driver, and ride information

• Algorithms for matching riders with drivers and routing
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Round duration - 45 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Basic HR questions

Round duration - 120 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was a mix of mathematical aptitude, logical ability, and puzzles along with 2 programming questions of easy and medium levels. Time was enough and no sectional time was present. 1-2 MCQs on SQL was also present.

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Boolean Matrix Transformation Challenge
Given a 2-dimensional boolean matrix mat of size N x M, your task is to modify the matrix such that if any element is 1, set its entire row and column to 1. Specifi...read more
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Modify a boolean matrix such that if any element is 1, set its entire row and column to 1.
• Iterate through the matrix to find elements with value 1

• Store the row and column indices of these elements

• Update the entire row and column for each element found to be 1
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was an online video interview round on HackerEarth with a simultaneous code option. It was mostly justifying your resume in the first 15 minutes. After that OOPS was majorly asked. Basics of programming including questions on STL were asked. A class that required inheritance was asked by the interviewer to write. I was helped by the interviewer if I got stuck somewhere, Some questions on the implementation of hashmaps and priority queues were also asked. A puzzle was asked which luckily struct to me at that moment.

Q1. Questions regarding previous job profile
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Q2. Situation handling skills evaluation
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2 problem one was moderate and ine was easier

It was to create small project with 2 screens and api call , asked to follow a good architectural pattern and unit test cases

Q1. ARC and memory leaks
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Q2. Questions related to swift and iOS Development
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Q1. Asked about my why you want to join
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Q2. Asked a fee things about org
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Priority Queue with linked list