Location : Pune / Bengaluru
Duration : 6 months
Date of procedure : Last week of May 2024 (4-5 days)
Position : SDE Intern
Round 1: Online Assessment
3 DSA Questions (probably all of similar difficulty as of leetcode mediums) + 5 MCQs (1 hr 30 mins)
Topics : Hashing, Binary Trees, Dynamic Programming
I finished in about 60-65 minutes.
Round 2: Interview Vector : Problem Solving round (60 minutes)
The round started with the interviewer giving his introduction and then asked me to introduce myself. Then we had a few discussions and questions on my resume for about 15 minutes.
It was followed by two dsa problems.
A stack based problem involving the concept of next greater/smaller element.
Gave the brute force and optimized approach . Then discussed the time and space complexities.
A BFS problem on matrix.
https://leetcode.com/problems/count-sub-islands/description/
Discussed and directly wrote the code for the optimized approach. Discussed the time and space complexities.
Round 3: First Technical Discussion : (60 minutes)
The round started with exchange of introductions. The interviewer was a SDE-3 in the organization. It was followed by 20-25 minutes of discussion and cross questions on my projects and I was also asked to design a rough sketch if schemas in mySQL given a scenario.
It was followed by a DSA problem involving greedy algorithm and priority queues.
Similar to : https://leetcode.com/problems/furthest-building-you-can-reach/description/
Discussed the approach with dry run and then had to code it. Discussed the time and space complexities.
A follow up task of implementing a min heap from scratch was asked which I did. Few questions regarding that.
Round 4: Hiring Manager round. (45 minutes)
A brief exchange of introductions. It was followed by a bried demo about one of my hosted projects. Then he deep dived into the project with some cross questions. He gave situations and asked how would I remodel my project according to those. These were followed by some situational questions and I was asked how would I react to them.
Then i was asked to give a brief approach of how would I design Google news. Few follow ups were given and I was asked to tell my opinions. Then the interviewer gave an idea of what the company does and what teams could I expect.
Round 5: HR Round (30 minutes + Offer discussion)
It lasted for about 30 minutes. I was asked what I knew about the comapny. Also its values and recent achievements. These were followed by few behavioral questions.
She told me that I was selected and finally laid out the offer and date of joining and other details.
Verdict: Selected
Thank you for reading till the end. Hope it helps.
