Outscal Interview Experience for C++/DS Coach

About Outscal: Outscal is an e-learning mentorship platform for game developers that bridges the gap between college education and industry expectations. The only platform in India that lets you connect with experts in the industry and eventually land a job in your dream gaming company. You pay nothing until you land a life-changing job — no matter where you live in India. At Outscal, students and professionals learn from tech industry leaders who understand the industry requirements. They have years of experience and have worked at top technology companies in India & abroad. Our program is designed to be employment-oriented, with months of dedicated career service support available for our fellows, to help them seek the right career opportunities post their graduation date. Our approach to learning provides students with a good amount of knowledge but also does everything to help them land as many interview opportunities as possible with our hiring partners. Throughout the program, students learn the fundamentals of C++ programming, Fundamentals of game development, Data Structures & Algorithms, and Unity 2D/3D. The program is designed to teach you everything you need to start building kickass games, with 24*7 live help online if you have a doubt, from our trainers and TAs. However, our job isn’t over yet. Once Outscal fellows are done with the course, our career services team will work with them – helping with CVs, cover letters, building online portfolios on Github, LinkedIn, interview prep, mock interviews, and industry connections. We will also source placement opportunities for our fellows from our extensive network of recruitment partners.

About C++/DS Coach:  My day-to-day duties include overviewing the code submissions of students and verifying whether what they have written is correct or not and rating the code as well. If the code is incorrect I have to provide hints towards the correct logic as well. 

NOTE: This is a WFH Internship 

Round 1: In this round, we were given 3 codes (only codes and not the question) we had to determine what the code is doing, the expected time and space complexity, whether the code is logically correct or not, and if there is any error(s) in them and whether the code is optimized or not. In case the code is not optimal then give the optimal approach. This round took me around 30 mins as the codes were pretty simple consisting of the stack, queue, and LinkedList (1 of each data structure).

Round 2:This was a technical interview in which I had to share my screen and write the code for the following questions.

1. Middle of LinkedList
2. 5/7th of a LinkedList
3. Valid parenthesis 
4. TSP Problem 

The questions were pretty straightforward forward and it took me around 15-20 min per question (started from brute force and I mostly wrote a pseudo-code that was accepted). After that, we had a discussion on top-down vs bottom-up in dp and a few more questions on time and space complexity (I don`t remember them now :3)

Round 3: The HR Round was pretty simple. Normal behavioral questions were asked.

Result: Selected.