PlaySimple Games Pvt. Ltd. Interview Experience for SDE

Round 1: Online Test | Easy level | Duration – 60 minutes

The first round was conducted on HackerEarth and contained 15 MCQ questions based on various computer science fundamentals and 2 coding questions.

1. Sort Unique Elements
2. Coin Change Problem (The problem was not the same as this but almost similar to this).

Round 2: Technical interview | Medium level | Duration – 40 minutes

The online test round was easy but in the technical round, Interviewer asked questions related to DP and Graph.

1. Unique Paths in a Grid with Obstacles (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/unique-paths-in-a-grid-with-obstacles/)
2. Given a matrix of ‘O’ and ‘X’, replace ‘O’ with ‘X’ if surrounded by ‘X’ (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/given-matrix-o-x-replace-o-x-surrounded-x/)

Apart from the questions, we had a brief discussion about deadlock and paging. The interviewer asked questions from the resume including mentioned projects.

Round 3: Technical interview | Medium level | Duration – 40 minutes

The round consisted of 2 DSA-based problems, which were to be explained and coded on paper.

1. Dice Throw (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dice-throw-dp-30/)
2. Next Permutation (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/next-permutation/)

I was able to solve the first question but I couldn’t solve the second question.

At the end of this interview, no one was shortlisted.