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Goldman Sachs | Analyst | Bengaluru

HackerRank Assessment

Questions:

  1. One easy, one medium LeetCode question.

Round 1 - CoderPad Interview

Questions:

  1. Given integer array of size n and startIndex. arr[i] >= 0. Starting from arr[startIndex], follow each element to the index it points to. If there is a cycle return its length, otherwise return -1.
  2. Given a M x N matrix, you start with bottom-left cell and should end at top-right corner of matrix, each cell has some coins, return the maximum no. of coins possible to collect.
Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Superday

Rounds:

  1. DSA
  2. Software Engineering Practices
  3. Software Design and Architecture
  4. Hiring Manager Round

Round 1 : DSA

Questions:

  1. Candy - Couldn't finish coding.
  2. Coin Change II - Finished recursive solution with memoization, couldn't complete the optimized iterative DP.
Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

Suggestions: Practice consistently, don't lose touch with DSA problems. All the best!


Result: Didn't proceed to next rounds.