PwC Acceleration Centers

Details

Job Status

Full Time (Employment + Internship Mandatory)

Criteria

• Cyber Security as Major or Elective

Round 1: Cyber Recruit Boot Camp

08/08/23

There were 4 sections:

1. Computer Fundamental MCQs (16)
2. Cybersecurity MCQs (16)
3. Coding Question - Easy (1)
4. Coding Question - Novice (1)

Coding Questions had a choice of C, Java and Python. Questions were different for everyone.

Questions

Coding Question - Easy

1. Remove duplicates from string

A function to remove all duplicate alphabets and non-alphabetic characters from a string and sort it in ascending order. The resultant string was supposed to be lower-case.

def solve(str):
  str = sorted(str.lower())
  res = ""
  for i in str:
    if i.isalpha() and i not in res:
      res += i
  return res 

Coding Question - Novice

1. Special Number

A function to return “Special number” if any of the digits in the number were perfect squares of 1, 2 or 3, otherwise return “Not a special number”

def solve(n):
  while n != 0:
    if n % 10 in [1,4,9]:
      return "Special number"
    n //= 10
  return "Not a special number"