Placement Cheatsheet - Curious Freaks

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Placement Cheatsheet

Watch this video fully to use this sheet efficiently -


https://youtu.be/3CStsqJDzME
Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@curiousfreaks_

Two types of companies


1. Service based companies - 3.2LPA to 5LPA expected salary, some rare cases upto
8LPA
a. Aptitude, Strong with basic programming & problem solving, communication
b. Easy to Medium level problems expected in technical rounds
c. Be strong with linear data structures - Solve till sliding window in curious freaks
coding sheet
2. Product based companies - 8LPA to 25LPA expected salary
a. Aptitude, Strong with programming & problem solving, communication
b. Medium to Hard level problems expected in technical rounds
c. Must solve all the topics in curious freaks coding sheet

Rounds in the interview:


1. Aptitude
2. Technical round - 1
3. Technical round - 2
4. Behaviour round

Aptitude Round: 10Days


Only topics to concentrate:
1. Train
2. Average
3. Height and distance
4. HCF & LCM
5. Time & Distance
6. Time & work
7. Ages
8. Permutations
9. Ratio & Proportion
10. Profit & loss
11. Volume & Surface
12. Area
13. Simple & Compound interest
14. Probablity
15. Pipes & cistern
16. Discount
17. Volume & surface

Each topic has patterns and you can find the patterns for each topic in career ride website. Try
to cover 2 topics per day so that within 10days you can complete aptitude.
Recommended youtube channels :
1. Career ride
2. Freshers world

Technical Round
1. Problem solving - Purely DSA problems
2. Core Subjects - OOPS, OS, DBMS, Networks
3. Projects

Problem solving round:


Curious Freaks Coding Sheet - Click to open
Minimum 2 problems will be asked in each round - Maximum 45mins will be provided to solve
them.
1. Solve 5 - 7 problems per day till you get placed - Don’t solve random problems, solve
the ones in our coding sheet, the order is also perfect for you to practice to just pick 5-7
problems each day and solve.
2. Focus first on easy problems, you should be able to solve them comfortably, then move
to medium problems. Coding sheet has them in the right order so just focus on it.
3. First set of data structures to focus to get interview ready for service based companies -
Linear data structures & Algo - Searching, Sorting, Array, String, Linkedin list, Two
pointers, Stack, Queue, Sliding window, Basic recursion
4. Once you are done with linear data structures, get grasp on recursion to proceed with
advanced data structures & Algo - Trees, Graphs, Backtracking, Greedy, DP,
Advanced string problems, Heap.

Use Leetcode or GeekforGeeks for solving problems

Recommended Youtube channels:


1. TakeYouForward
2. Neetcode
3. Aditya verma

Other Technical rounds:


Apart from DSA problems, the only topic to focus is your core subject and projects.

Recommeded resources for core subjects


1. Interview Bit QnA
a. https://www.interviewbit.com/operating-system-mcq/
b. https://www.interviewbit.com/oops-mcq/
c. https://www.interviewbit.com/computer-network-mcq/
d. https://www.interviewbit.com/rdbms-mcq/
e. https://takeuforward.org/dbms/most-asked-dbms-interview-questions/
Checkout CodeHelp youtube channel also, content is in Hindi but subtitles are available, content
is really good.

Managerial round -
https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/1532708/tips-for-answering-few-tricky-behavi
oural-interview-questions

This round is generally take lite by many students, but make sure to prepare yourself well for it,
this article covers how to answer most common questions. Checkout STAR format to answer
behavioural questions.

Common Questions:
1. Tell me about yourself
2. Where do you see yourself in 5yrs?
3. Why do you want to join this company?
4. Why should we hire you?
5. What are your strengths?
6. What are your weaknesses?
7. How would you resolve a conflict with your colleague?
8. How will you handle this situation -> Situation can be something unique which the
interviewer comes up with and wants to understand your mentality in general.
9. Sometime, you can expect questions around situations you dealt with in the projects you
worked on

Will keep updating this questions.

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