Samsung Interview Experience

Following questions were asked by Samsung for it's Software Engineering Labs (SEL) position.

1) What is the difference between a process and a thread?

2) Compare Merge sort and Heap sort. What are their time and space complexities? State the cases when one will perform better than the other.

3) What is Page table, Address space, and Virtual memory?

4) Given a binary tree, find the node containing a Minimum heap of maximum size below it. So the node will be the root of the min-heap of maximum possible size in the binary tree.

5) Construct 2 stacks using a single array. Follow Up: Construct 3 stacks in a single array.

6) What is a deadlock? 

7) What are function pointers? What is their significance?

8) Reverse each word of a string "in place" (that is without using additional memory)

Ex: "Ram and Shyam are friends" --> "maR dna mayhS era sdneirf"

Source: Sravan Bodapati, CSE IIT-Madras

Samsung Design Labs: Technical Test

Samsung Design Labs conducted a Technical test for their selection process. I've outlined the test below to the best of my memory.

There was an objective paper which had 20 questions related to CS topics like Algorithms, C++, Data structures.

The 2nd paper was subjective which had 2 algorithm questions

1) Given a set of points, develop an algorithm to find their convex hull. Write code in C++ or some other similar language.

2) You are given 2 convex hulls. Develop an algorithm to find all the common points; that is the points that lie in the intersection of these 2 convex hulls. Write code.

Note: Assume that the convex hulls are for the points in 2D representation.