Strand Life Sciences

1. 1

   Resume shortlist

   No written or coding test in four accounts.

2. 2

   Technical interview

   Single technical interview with coding
   60 mineasyeliminatory

   DSA · OOP · OS basics · computer architecture · time complexity · resume projects · linked lists · stack · binary search

   45-60 minutes. Only one interview and no HR round in all accounts; one account folded HR into it. Language flexible. One account says one of three problems was hard.

Advice from candidates

10 pieces of advice, in their own words. Names removed.

• If you are able to solve medium level leetcode questions then this coding test would be very easy for you.

  test · 2022

• Unless you mess up really bad, I’d say it's fairly easy to qualify for the internship.

  general · 2022

• Have details about the projects mentioned in the resume.

  resume · 2022

• When solving questions try to cover all possible cases especially the corner on

  interview · 2022

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Question patterns reported

The kind of problem, not the problem itself. Our practice questions are written to match these patterns.

• Technicalinteger square root via binary search
• Technicalprint matrix in spiral order
• Technicalmerge two sorted lists
• Technicalstack with O(1) min and max
• Technicalthree coding tasks, one graph hard
• Technicallinked list implementation and complexity questions
• Technicalfriend-link data structure for a social network
• Technicalfriend circle and mutual friends detection
• Technicallive BFS and DFS, iterative and recursive
• Technicalexplain concepts in provided Java OOP code
• Technicalclassic backtracking board-placement problem