Batch: 2023
College: Tier 2 (IIIT/NIT)

I was contacted by a recruiter at the end of December. I sent my resume and then I was provided with the hackerrank test link.

Round 1: Hackerrank Test
Two easy-medium leetcode questions. I solved that in 15 mins.

Then after 3-4 days I was contacted by the recuriter to appear for the CodePair round.

Round 2: CodePair

There were two questions to be solved in an hour.
Question 1: Given a input string, if a substring has already occured, put a * in the place of it.

Example Input: ABCABEABE
Example Output: ABC* E *

I took more than 40 minutes to solve this and still 1 test case didn't pass. Interviewer tried his best to help me pass all the test case but my dumbness also has some heights.

Question 2: Given a matrix of n* m, a robot is located initially at the bottom left corner,each box has some value and robot can only move in north and east direction. Find the optimal path.

I solved this in 10 mins with all the test cases passed.

Then we moved to the first question, with the help of the interviewer, I passed most of the testcases but still 1 was remaining and we ran out of time.

I went blank in the interview and couldn't think much about the first question and as far as I know, you need to solve all the test cases to go for superday interview. I have self rejected now. I prepared so much but failed.

Edit: Got the rejection mail.