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Google SDE Interview Experience (On-campus)

In this post, I'll be telling you about how I landed into an interview with Team Google. I didn't get an offer but then my experience can be useful for other aspirants. Overall the interview was of intermediate level. Online Coding test: It all started with one of the Google Kickstart competition. Kickstart is an online coding competition from which top participants are invited for an interview at Google. It has various independent rounds all along the year. I participated in Round F and solved 2 out of 3 problems completely. My score was 48 and rank was 124.  Google's team came to our campus after this round F for giving a pre-placement talk. They officially announced that they will consider the upcoming Round G for shortlisting for interviews. I participated in Round G and got a rank of 496 after solving 1 out of 3 problems completely. My score was 17. For the coding competition questions, refer to the  archive of kickstart . I got shortlisted for the interv

En route to Microsoft Data Scientist

In this post, I'll be talking about the selection process of Microsoft for data scientist profile in IIT Bombay. Microsoft visited our campus for recruitment in two profiles:  Software Developer Data Scientist I will mostly be talking about the selection process of the data scientist profile. First Round - Online Coding Test and Data science MCQs For Software Developer profile, we had three coding questions to solve on  cocubes  platform. All the students were having a different set of questions.   Find the distance between two nodes of a binary tree   Given a string s, find the next permutation of s Parse a string s and convert numbers into their corresponding characters, remove the whitespaces and number followed by hash # is not converted into character. Sample Input -  3 2 20_21 # 1 # 2_#11 4 @11 Sample Output - CBT U12 11D@H For Data Science Profile, there were a lot of MCQs on general Machine Learning concepts like AUC-ROC curve,L1/L2 R