TCS
Large multinational IT services and consulting enterprise based in India.
3 Rounds
~14 Days
Medium
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Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Given an array of integers, return indices of the two numbers such that they add up to a specific target.
#Arrays
#HashMaps
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Given a string containing just the characters '(', ')', '{', '}', '[' and ']', determine if the input string is valid.
#Stacks
#Strings
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a program to group anagrams together from an array of strings.
#Strings
#HashMaps
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given an array of intervals, merge all overlapping intervals and return an array of the non-overlapping intervals.
#Arrays
#Sorting
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a function to detect if a cycle exists in a singly linked list.
#Linked Lists
#Two Pointers
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a string, find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters.
#Strings
#Sliding Window
Data Scientist
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Coding
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easy
Write a Python function to detect if two strings are anagrams of each other, optimizing for time complexity.
#Strings
#Hash Maps
#Python
Data Scientist
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Coding
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medium
Given an array of integers, write a Python script to find the maximum sum of any contiguous subarray.
#Dynamic Programming
#Kadane's Algorithm
Frontend Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Implement an LRU (Least Recently Used) Cache class in JavaScript with get() and put() methods operating in O(1) time complexity.
#Data Structures
#Caching
#Hash Maps
#Linked Lists
Frontend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a JavaScript function to flatten a deeply nested array without using the built-in Array.prototype.flat() method.
#Recursion
#Arrays
#Data Structures
Full Stack Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a program to find the longest substring without repeating characters.
#Strings
#Sliding Window
#Hash Map
Full Stack Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Given two strings, write a method to determine if they are valid anagrams of each other. Optimize for time and space complexity.
#Strings
#Hash Map
#Sorting
Full Stack Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a code to check if a given binary tree is a valid Binary Search Tree (BST).
#Trees
#Recursion
#DFS
Full Stack Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a function to reverse a linked list. Follow up: Can you do it recursively?
#Linked Lists
#Pointers
#Recursion
Full Stack Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Given an array of integers, write a function to move all zeros to the end while maintaining the relative order of the non-zero elements.
#Arrays
#Two Pointers
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a string representing a sequence of user actions, find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters.
#Sliding Window
#Strings
#Hash Map
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given an array of intervals where intervals[i] = [start_i, end_i], merge all overlapping intervals. This is often used in processing time-series data for sensor logs.
#Arrays
#Sorting
#Data Structures
Software Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a program to print the Fibonacci series up to N terms using recursion.
#Recursion
#Math
#Basic Programming
Software Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Given an array of size N containing distinct numbers in the range from 1 to N+1, find the single missing number.
#Arrays
#Math
#Bit Manipulation
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a program to find the longest palindromic substring in a given string.
#Strings
#Dynamic Programming
#Expand Around Center
Software Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Given an array of integers and a target sum, return the indices of the two numbers that add up to the target. (Two Sum problem)
#Arrays
#Hash Map
Software Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Given two sorted arrays, merge them into a single sorted array without using any extra space (O(1) auxiliary space).
#Arrays
#Sorting
#Math
Software Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Find the first non-repeating character in a given string and return its index. If it doesn't exist, return -1.
#Strings
#Hash Map
#Arrays
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a program to detect a loop (cycle) in a singly linked list.
#Linked List
#Floyd's Cycle-Finding Algorithm
#Pointers
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a program to reverse a string without using inbuilt functions, ensuring that special characters remain in their exact original positions.
#Strings
#Two Pointers
#Data Structures
Software Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a function to check if two given strings are anagrams of each other.
#Strings
#Sorting
#Hash Map
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