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Carwale Interview Experience (On-Campus 2020)

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First round: It was on Hackerrank. We were given 4 coding questions which were random for all. Some of the questions that I got are as follows:Minimum operation to make al...

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First round: It was on Hackerrank. We were given 4 coding questions which were random for all. Some of the questions that I got are as follows: Minimum operation to make all elements equal in array Reduce the string by removing K consecutive identical characters Count number of Distinct Substring in a String I was able to solve only 1 problem fully and the other 3 problems partially. Most of the students who had completed 1 problem fully were shortlisted for further rounds. Second Round: This was a technical interview round conducted on Google Meet. The interviewer asked the following questions: Tell me about yourself How do you rate yourself in Data Structures in the scale of 1 - 10. After that, the interviewer asked 2 coding questions: Find the Peak Element of an Array . At first, I explained the brute force approach and then the interviewer asked me to further optimize the approach and I came up the divide and conquer approach but wasn't sure about the approach. Remove Duplicates from sorted array. I didn't get selected for further rounds. But it was a nice experience since it was my first interview,

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This is a reported interview question from a carwale interview for a swe role during the oa round reported in 2025.

It covers the following topics: Recursion, Arrays, Strings .