Drive date : 18th Feb 2024

Verdict: selected

Current: working as a Software engineer 1 at HashedIn

Round 1 Online assessment on Codility platform No of problems – 3 DSA based questions

Q1 : easy, based on array and sorting

Q2: Hard, based on graph

Q3: Medium based on DP Assessment duration: 1hr 30 minutes

Round 2: Technical Interview 1

Started with DSA questions

Q1. Buy stock span problem

Q2. Implement a stack using LinkedIn list

Q3. Kth largest no. in an array, I used min heap queue for this so he asked why I took this approach and how internally heapify works.

Then shifts to DBMS concepts and SQL queries Interview duration: 45 minutes

Round 3: Technical Interview 2

Started with questions from AWS (it was mentioned in my resume)

Then asked to design database of IRCTC that includes all tables, their attributes and their relationships among them, asked to optimise it further. Proceeds with 2 DSA questions

Q1. Simple array question involves swapping (easy)

Q2. Trapping Rain water problem (leetcode Hard) (Monotonic stack, DP) Interview duration: 1hr 20 minutes

Round 4: HR/Fitment round Behavioural questions, family background, preferred location, previous internship experience (if any). I would it was just a fun round.

Follow up questions were there for tech problems, so choose your words wisely and be confident.

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