Scribd
Upload
125 views3 pages

Sanjay's Interview Experience:: Applied Interview Preparation Course

Sanjay took an interview preparation course to help him get a new job with higher pay after working for 1.5 years. The course helped improve his problem solving skills and taught strategies for different types of problems. It provided video solutions to LeetCode problems that demonstrated brute force and optimized approaches. After 3 months of preparation, Sanjay received an offer from Progress Software for Software Engineer II with a 12 LPA salary. His interview process consisted of online assessment, 2 technical rounds, managerial round, and HR round focusing on coding questions, past projects, and behavioral questions. He credits the preparation course for helping him build strong foundations and get this higher paying job.

Uploaded by

RaJu Bhai
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
125 views3 pages

Sanjay's Interview Experience:: Applied Interview Preparation Course

Sanjay took an interview preparation course to help him get a new job with higher pay after working for 1.5 years. The course helped improve his problem solving skills and taught strategies for different types of problems. It provided video solutions to LeetCode problems that demonstrated brute force and optimized approaches. After 3 months of preparation, Sanjay received an offer from Progress Software for Software Engineer II with a 12 LPA salary. His interview process consisted of online assessment, 2 technical rounds, managerial round, and HR round focusing on coding questions, past projects, and behavioral questions. He credits the preparation course for helping him build strong foundations and get this higher paying job.

Uploaded by

RaJu Bhai
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

Applied Interview preparation course

Sanjay’s Interview Experience:

1.Sanjay’s background

I have done my B.Tech(CS) - 2018 degree from JNTU, Hyderabad.


Straight out of college I worked for Wells Fargo for 1 and 1/2 year as software developer.
Then I, however and whatever might be the thing, wanted to move into top product based
companies and left Wells fargo.
Started preparing by joining AAIC Interview Prep Course which I came across internet and
dedicating at least 4 hours/day.

2. How interview prep course helped to get 2x salary

Frankly speaking still today I regret that why didn't we had such instructors who can teach
concepts in-depth in colleges.
Everything is taught from scratch as if we don't know anything, intuitively(especially the Big-O
notation) and easy to absorb.
It made my thinking process and built my foundations way better than which I had before joining
the course.
Got to know different kinds of strategies, when to apply one, what not to apply for a particular
problem.
I was able to get this job after 3 months of joining the Interview Prep Course.

3.How do you feel about Video content leetcode problems provided by Interview Prep
course !
I must say the video content problems are awesome and intuitive especially for beginners.
For every problem the solution goes from a brute force to an optimized solution, similar to real
interview kind of step up
(This is key to improving thinking capability for optimizing, as we typically comeup with brute
force solution at first).
These videos cover different ways of asking a question on a single concept.

4. Brief about Interview experience?


Company: Progress Software Corporation
Role: Software Engineer - II
CTC: 12 LPA
The interview consisted of 1 online assessment(Hackerrank), 2 technical rounds, 1 managerial
round, 1 HR.
I. Online assessment(Hackerrank): 2 coding questions
(a) Find all possible palindromes(substrings) count in a given string(A variation of longest
palindrome substring in a string)
(b) Check if a binary tree is binary search tree or not(Application of inorder traversal)
II. Technical Round - [1]
(a) Swap every 2 nodes in a Linked List(variation of reversing every alternate portion of LL)
-- Was asked to write to both iterative and recursive solution [O(n)].
Eg: 1->2->3->4->5 becomes 2->1->4->3->5
(b) Find # of rotations in a sorted, left rotated array(Application of binary search)
-- First gave linear search solution [O(n)], then binary search solution [O(log n)].
-- Was asked to code the binary search solution.
(c) Find the first non-repeating character in a running stream of characters
-- Gave heap based soltuion first, then doubly linked list solution with hashmap of references.

III. Technical Round - [2]


(a) Find top K-frequent elements in an array of numbers(Application of heaps, bucket sort)
-- First gave sorting array solution[O(n log n)], optimized with heap of size `K`[O(n log k)],
then bucket sort based solution[O(n)]
(b) Given # of courses(n) and pairs of courses[(a,b), (c,d), ..] i.e pair (a, b) means course `a`
must be taken before `b`
Find if all courses in given pairs can be taken without any deadlock scenario(Application of DFS
in graphs)
-- Basically we need to find if there exists a cycle in the graph, gave DFS solution[O(V + E)]

IV. Managerial round - Hiring Manager


(a) About my background, tell me about yourself?
(b) Explanation about my previous company projects.
(c) Asked about debugging skills, what debugging tools used in the past.
(d) Explain a situation which won't be solved without my presence.
(e) A little bit of supervised & unsupervised ML definitions, questions(Resume based).

V. HR round
(a) About my background, tell me about yourself?
(b) what are your strengths, weaknesses?
(c) Where do you see yourself 5 years from now?
(d) Why left previous company?
(e) Salary negotiation.

Verdict: Selected

5.How is our service at the Interview Prep course !


The service is very good, I got to solved my queries/doubts within few hours. I feel the content is
more that mattered to me.

If you have any queries regarding the data structures and algorithms course (inerview
preparation course please drop an email to [email protected])
https://interviewprep.appliedcourse.com/

You might also like