Intuit

## Round 0: Online Assessment (OA) The OA consisted of 4 questions. Three of them were standard problems that can be found on LeetCode Discuss. The last one was relatively difficult; I managed to pass 4 out of 6 test cases. ### 4th Question: Maximum Path Sum in Two Caves Given two caves of length $n$ and $m$, represented in the form of non-decreasing arrays $a$ and $b$ respectively. You need to start from any one of the caves and move to the end. You can jump from one array to another, provided the values at the positions are the same. On jumping, the element is counted only once. The goal is to maximize the total score. *Example:** $a = [1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3]$ $b = [2, 2, 2, 3, 4]$ Possible path: $a_0, a_1, a_2, b_0, b_1, b_2, a_3, a_4, a_5, b_3, b_4$. ## Round 1: Interview The interview began with questions related to my projects. This was followed by a standard Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) question: **Spiral Traversal of a Matrix**: Write code to traverse a 2D matrix in a spiral order. Since I mentioned Design Patterns in one of my projects, the interviewer also asked several questions on **Design Patterns**. Overall, the interview went fine. ## Round 2: Interview (Not Shortlisted) I did not get shortlisted for the second interview round. I believe there were a few reasons for this: **Time Management**: The interviewer had planned to divide the 45-minute slot into three 15-minute segments: Projects, DSA, and CSE Core subjects. However, I went into so much detail regarding my project that there was not enough time left for the interviewer to ask CSE core questions. **Skill Alignment**: The job description clearly emphasized Front-end development and CSS. My resume lacked MERN stack or SpringBoot projects, which might have been a disadvantage.