Yext Interview Question

In Round 1 of my virtual F2F interview on Google Meet (1 hour), the session was split into coding and debugging. The coding question was based on graphs, where I had to work with a grid of 1’s and 0’s, with 1 representing bomb cells. Given a source cell, I had to detonate all connected cells using an approach similar to the Flood Fill algorithm and return the total count of detonated cells. In the debugging section, I was given code with multiple banking operation functions containing bugs. I analyzed and fixed most of them, and with the help of hints from the interviewer, I resolved the remaining issues as well. I successfully cleared this round. In Round 2 (2 hours), the format was similar. The coding part again involved a graph problem where I had to apply either DFS or BFS to solve a grid-based task, similar to the Flood Fill problem. The debugging task involved fixing bugs in the Game of Life simulation. Although I managed to fix a few issues, I couldn’t resolve all bugs within the given time, and the problem remained partially solved.