Sopra Steria Interview Experience

21 May, 2019
Today, I was called for interview in Sopra Steria. Approximate 100 persons were present during the interview process. First round as technical test which consists of 2 complex questions from hackersearth websites. Though I failed in first round itself. One question I tries to solve and I solved that 80% but could not make to 2nd round. Question which I attempted is given below along with solution so that you can post and anybody can get help.
Q. 1 You have to take input from input device with the below sysntax :
Line 1 : T No of test cases to be checked.
Line 2 : Array Count.
Line 3 : No of elements of the array.
Line 4 : Kth largest element to be found. If not found return -1.
Line 2, 3 and 4 will get repeated accordingly what we have entered in line 1.
Rule : We need to find the differences of ant 2 numbers, if it is not present then we should add this to given array. So we would have all numbers difference present in array in last.
For Example : INPUT :151 3 5 6 72112
Input : Line 1 is : we want to pass 2 test cases.Line 2 : Array size of First Array.Line 3 : Array Elements separated by SPACELine 4 : Need to find out 2nd Largest elements.Line 5 : Array Size of Second array for test case 2.Line 6 : Array ElementsLine 7 : 2nd largest elements to be found
Output :6-1
Solutions :
package soptasteria;  import java.io.IOException;import java.util.Arrays;import java.util.Scanner;  public class Test {    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException    {        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);        int testCasesCount = sc.nextInt();        int[] result = new int[testCasesCount];        for (int i = 0; i < testCasesCount; i++) {            int arraySize = sc.nextInt();            // System.err.println("Enter arr element after arr size");              // System.err.println("Array Entered : "+sc.nextLine());              sc.nextLine();              String[] strArr = sc.nextLine().split(" ");              int[] array = makeArrayOfInteger(strArr);              // System.out.println("Printing integer array");              int kth = sc.nextInt();              // System.out.println("Array Entered : ");              printArray(array, arraySize);              result[i] = goForBusiness(array, arraySize, kth);              // System.out.println("Result : "+result[i]);        }          System.out.println("Output : ");          for (int i = 0; i < testCasesCount; i++) {            System.out.println(result[i]);        }    }      private static int goForBusiness(int arr[], int len, int kthLargest)    {          int lastIndex = len;          for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {            for (int j = i + 1; j < len; j++) {                  int d = Math.abs(arr[i] - arr[j]);                  // System.out.println("Checked "+i+"th and "+j+"th element with differnece : "+d);                if (!searchInArray(arr, lastIndex, d)) {                    arr[lastIndex++] = d;                }            }        }          Arrays.sort(arr, 0, lastIndex);        // System.out.print("After Sort : ");        // printArray(arr, lastIndex);        if (kthLargest > lastIndex)            return -1;          return arr[lastIndex - kthLargest];    }      private static int[] makeArrayOfInteger(String[] str)    {        int[] arr = new int[str.length * 4];        for (int i = 0; i < str.length; i++)            arr[i] = Integer.parseInt(str[i]);        return arr;    }      private static boolean searchInArray(int arr[], int len, int ele)    {        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)            if (arr[i] == ele)                return true;        return false;    }      private static void printArray(int arr[], int len)    {        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)            System.out.print(" " + arr[i]);        System.out.println("");    }}
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