Round 1: Coding Question (30 minutes/1 question)

You can find that question below, I failed that question three times because I wasn’t thinking dynamically. I solved it with DP and submitted on the last six minutes. Fortunately, the code was correct.

Out of 200 students, 13 were shortlisted, fortunately, once again, I was on that list. They called us to Placement Cell to assemble.

They then for some reason decided not to take the “3-4” hrs coding round and move forward with an interview.

I waited there for like 3 hrs, and my turn came.

This was my first professional and wildest interview experience.

On 21st July, Sahaj came for a Pre-Placement talk, they told us about their company through doodle art, which was pretty interesting. They announced that on the very next day, there is a Screening Round (which is a simple coding round) of 1 hrs. Shortlisted students would go to the next round the actual “Coding Round” which would be 3-4 hrs. Shortlisted students here would go to the next Interview round. So the sequence was something like this:-

Pre-Placement Talk –> Screening Round –> Coding Round –> Interview 1 –> Interview 2

But, something weird happened, they decided to do a 30-minute coding round another day with a single question, A simple DP-based question (simple in a sense with respect to other DP questions).