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Status: 3+ YOE
Position: Senior Software Engineer at a fintech MNC
Location: Bengaluru
Date Of Interviews: January 2024
Saw Mindtickle was hiring. Reached out to a recruiter on Linkedin with whom I had interviewed before.
I was told that there will be 4 rounds. 2 DSA rounds + 1 LLD round + 1 Culture fit/Hiring Manager round.
Round 1 (1 hours) :
- Find duplicates elements in an array.
- Follow up -
Suppose we have properties of elements given in this way -
e1 -> p1 p2 p3
e2 -> p4 p5 p3
e3 -> p1 p3 p6
Properties will be duplicates only when they have the same value and they lie at the same index within the property list. Also, elements are transitive in nature i.e. if e1-> e2 and e2->e3 then e1->e3.
Construct a dependency chain for the same based on matching/duplicate properties.
In this case -> the graph will be e1->e2->e3 because p1 is matching in e1 and e3 + p3 is matching in e1 and e2.
Solved this using connected components in a graph. The problem essentially condensed to printing out all connected components.
Verdict - Hire
Round 2 (1 hour): Hard DSA problem based upon merging intervals.
Verdit - Hire
Round 3 (1.5 hour) : LLD Round
Design a Ludo Game with all the basic rules of LUDO. This is a hard LLD problem as it has lot of nuances. Interviewer wanted to have a detailed discussion and have a semi working code. Wasn't able to code the whole thing properly here.
Received rejection mail after this round as they said they were looking for a more experience SDE-2.
Views: Interviewers were pretty chilled out but the questions asked were hard mostly. LLD question asked in my case was very complex and I had not practiced this before.
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