Round 1: Assignement Round. I was asked to design a CRUD based application (backend only). I did the same in javascript and NodeJS. Round 2: two sum question. Was able to solve it with O(n) space c...

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Round 1: Assignement Round. I was asked to design a CRUD based application (backend only). I did the same in javascript and NodeJS. Round 2: two sum question. Was able to solve it with O(n) space complexity. He then asked me to optimize and make it O(1) space complexity. I fumbled here under pressure and was not able to do it. Asked projects on my resume and a bit of cloud computing.

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Can anyone tell me their interview experience at Groww for Frontend Engineer likely to be SDE-2?

Software Developer

Will be joining browserstack for a L3 role frontend, please share anything that would help me there.

Any tips, joining browserstack

Software Engineer

Recently interviewed with Uber Bangalore through a referral.
Made it through 3 rounds before being rejected. This was my first interview at a big tech firm.

The process was as follows - 

Round one - Online Assessment on Code Signal platform. Completion of the OA was necessary and contained 8 questions to be completed in 30 mins. There was 1 easy level leetcode question(in my case it was the leetcode two sum problem) along with 7 MCQ which were based on Android situations / scenarios. 

Round two - 1 hour long Zoom Interview call with an existing senior SDE working for the HCV team. Question asked was a variation of the leetcode 17 Problem (Letter combination of phone number). Test was conducted Code Signal platform with screen sharing enabled. 

Round three - Now this is where I was thrown off. This round was also supposed to be conducted on Code Signal as per the email from the HR but went in a different direction. The interviewer this time was a senior SDE from the rider app team. The interviewer seemed like he was not in the mood to conduct the interview and kept a poker face throughout. The task given was to download a simple project of a note making app. Open ended questions were asked as to how would you make this code base better and also you need to add an edit functionality. The app was so damn simple and without any standard architecture or tooling so I started giving suggestions but that is not what the interviewer wanted for some reason. Then he just directed me by saying that just add the edit functionality. Which was again a rather open ended question as the existing functionality to save and retrieve was being done very poorly. Finally finished the interview by adding a few lines to the existing implementation to edit an existing note.

Software Engineer 2 - Android Interview at Uber

Android Engineer

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Applied to Paypal through a linkedin job post around mid May. Got reached out by their HR late in May for an Online Assessment round on Hackerrank.

OA was of 1 hour and contained 8 MCQ on Android and 2 DSA easy level leetcode - 2 sum + max profit.

Cleared that and 2 WEEKS later got asked to interview for a subject in depth and DSA round.

This round contained general Android knowledge and in depth language awareness questions(Kotlin based).
Around the end of the interview, the interviewer asked to open any preferrer IDE and share the screen and then to write a solution for eliminating a target value from Integer array(can contain duplicates too) without using extra space.

Cleared that and went on to the 3rd round three days later which was essentially a repeat of the previous round but more conversational. The time ran out before any DSA Question could be asked.

Three days later got asked to interview for the Hiring Manager round which got scheduled and then got cancelled a day before the interview was supposed to take place. 

Tabse leke ye haal hai. HRs are ghosting and seem clueless themselves. Their workday portal also has removed the link for the role I was interviewing for.

Who else has been through this haath ko aaya mooh na laga situation?

Paypal SE -Android experience

what are my chances of landing a job (considering i have gotten decent-ish projects on my resume) 
Have only done the below topics: 
1) Arrays/Strings
2) Hashmaps
3) Linkedlists
4) Stacks / Queues 
5) Recursion and other basic algorithms. 
(ps me noob, hence the number of question for grip and confidence)

My chances?

Google L4 role. My phone round feedback was "strong hire." Post that, First round, I quickly solved a question and a follow-up. Later, another follow-up was asked where I wanted to use a sliding window approach. I proposed a for loop with an internal while loop, but the interviewer expected me to use two pointers and an if loop. He said a sliding window cannot have a while inside, and I finally agreed to use two pointers. While coding, he said he knew I could write the code and would convey the same, though I clearly stated I would finish coding. leaning towards L3. Second, I quickly provided a solution. The interviewer asked if it was the most optimized solution, and I said yes. He kept pestering, so I took 2-3 minutes and confirmed it was optimal. He agreed and asked me to proceed with coding. I asked if there was a follow-up, and he said he couldn't say. Then he gave me inputs one by one. The third input was an edge case, which I realized myself and modified the solution accordingly. He asked a follow-up with 13 minutes to spare; we discussed the approach, and he said that was the right direction and stopped the interview. Result: leaning no hire. Third, I gave the DS immediately, list in the map’s value; he asked why an integer wouldn't be sufficient. I explained that if we need the data again, since we're getting the stream inputs from the API, a list would enable us to reuse those values. I also said that, in this use case, an integer would be sufficient and proceeded with the code. He asked a follow-up, and I was trying to optimize my approach because it required checking the list’s last two elements every time in the map for a key, and also going through the entire hashmap again to check the last value of the list (timestamp). The interviewer wasn’t happy with the optimization where I wanted to remove used elements to avoid repeatedly checking and optimize the searching again. In feedback, it was he provided me help with DS, which was untrue. Leaning no hire

Are the expectations too high or these question my coding skills?

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Does anyone have any review on this startup called OpenInApp? Want to know insightful opinion.
Is it a good place to build career?

OpenInApp ??

Product Manager

Have anyone got remote  job from this platform called mercor, after attending AI interview for 20 mins , how was the process, kindly share your experience.

Mercor

Hey, anybody knows how the interview process looks like. What to expect.
Recieved an invite for phone screen on glider.ai

Intuit frontend interview experience

Consultant

Hey everyone! 
Sorry for the title. 

I had applied for a company, based out of Hyderabad. A startup, hiring for its founding full-stack engineer. 
The founder had sent their calendly link to schedule the meeting. 
I scheduled once, joined and waited long enough to receive an email saying that he got caught up in another meeting. The email explicitly said how sorry they were. 
Scheduled again, cancelled 5 mins prior because of a conflicting meeting. 
They apologized again, sent the calendly link, I rescheduled. I had an personal emergency because of which I couldn't attend so I sent an email, 5 MINS BEFORE THE MEETING STARTED, asking to reschedule. 
They shared the link, I rescheduled and they completely ghosted me. 

They think they belong to the top of the world or something, because of a fricking startup? Although it's YC funded but that doesn't give them horns! 
So I'm going to name and shame the company. 

LANDEED
Founder - CJ Lin

Egotistical Founder - Such a prick!

Recently had a chance to interview at a pretty mature startup(moengage), a recruiter called me up, we set up a time and date for a machine coding round. I was pretty excited to be honest and looking forward to the interview.
Fast forward to the day of reckoning , I join the interview with my intellij set up, my pen and paper to draw the ERD ready and my mind full of design patterns, only to be confronted with two DS & Algo questions(i legit gave up the moment i heard ds), the questions were interesting and the interviewer chill but it blindsided me by a whole lot and I couldn’t solve anything.
It’s pretty weird that startups with so many resources at their disposal could be so out of sync internally.

Weirdest(worst?) interview experience

I interviewed with STRAC.io (a US-based start-up).

I was given the assignment to develop a backend app which implements an API to fetch list of files and file users from Google Drive and add a real-time webhook which gets called when a permission change happens.
Plus they asked me to make a video explaining the code and deploy the application to AWS. (There were some back and forth about the exact requirements)

I implemented the API, deployed and made a video explaining everything. It took me 8+ hours of work.
But once I submitted the code the Founder (CEO) stopped answering my emails.

I just wanted to share my experience.

Is this common practice?
In all my previous experiences at least they sent me a rejection email.
Is there anything I can do?

STRAC.io: Bad Assignment Experience

Senior Engineer

The interview was face to face. 
I was told explicitly that it'd be a hands on coding round. DSA and screening round was already completed. 
The guy who came to the interview basically had the same level of experience as mine. 

First, he asked me about if I've worked on microservices architecture. I said I have and mentioned details about a few projects.

Then, he told me: Since you've worked on AWS heavily, do you know the default timeout of a lambda? Told him, I don't remember exactly and gave him a wild guess. It was too wild it seems. My bad, should've just not spoken. I accept my mistake. 

Then he asked, what are the different services that can invoke a lambda. I mentioned sqs, sns, cloudwatch, dynamo db streams, etc. He's like, what specifically from a microservices perspective. I repeated SQS, SNS mainly. He's like, Lambda can be also invoked by other Lambdas which is what I was expecting you to answer. Great. Shouldn't have asked an open ended question if he was looking for exact answers, right ? 

Then a few other questions that I was able to generally respond, but maybe not with the level of exactitude that he was expecting. 

Then, he asked me to code up a few endpoints related to followers, following, posts and wall. I told him that in the interest of time, I'm trying to get the endpoints working instead of focussing on design and he said sure go ahead. I was genuinely under the impression that he wants to see if I know how to code, but he was testing my system design skills. He was obviously not happy seeing me cut corners. 

At the end during discussion he said you could've done correctly in a certain way. I said yes - It's obvious that it was the right way, but I only compromised on the design thinking you wanted to see my ability to actually understand the framework related stuff. 

Interviews can be a bitch !

HighLevel Round 2 - Rejected

Sorry man, I didn't know you felt this way. 
 I will improve myself.

Recruiter reached out to me and have the screening round coming up. I read that the interview process at Stripe is unique and there are rounds for fixing bugs, doing integration, etc. Can anyone shed some more light on this and how to prep?

Need info on Stripe's interview process

I'm a recent computer science graduate actively seeking internship opportunities in Product Management. I applied for a position at a fintech startup in Bangalore. After successfully passing the HR interview, they presented me with a case study involving an International Airline. My task was to propose and implement features to address the issue, which I complemented with UX designs. I advanced to the next interview round scheduled for last week, but no panel members joined the meeting despite waiting for 20 minutes. I contacted the HR, and they informed me that the panel was occupied and would reschedule. They rescheduled the interview for today at 4 PM, but at 3:50 PM, I received a call from the HR, notifying me that the panel was currently busy and rescheduling it to 6:30 PM. Just now, I received another call stating that the interview will be postponed to 12 PM tomorrow. This is only the initial round, with three more to follow.

I'm curious, is it typical for companies to follow such lengthy and multi-round processes when hiring interns?

Interview experience

I would like to know what preparation is required for a 10+ year experienced software engineer.

The current role involves architecting, programming and managing a team for delivery but with no one directly reporting.

Interview prep for 10+ year experience

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Does any one work for startup’s which are not based in India? What should be the ideal compensation expectation in such cases. Is it fair to ask for a salary equivalent to that of an US software dev if the startup is based in the US?

Compensation at international remote startups

I am a 2YOE software engineer, and I wanted to make a switch. Having a grip on DSA but can't rely on it. I am seeing a good number of folks getting into start ups get paid well too. Can someone comment on startups that are paying well but require less grinding. Open for comments and views.
Thanks

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