You can ask the recruiter to share more specific details about the round so that you can give your best performance. You can say that you are unsure about how to prepare best and the details will help a lot.

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I have an interview upcoming and want to know whether it will be DSA round or domain specific round. The recruiter is not being clear about it. How do I approach her and ask her what is the first r...

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I have an interview upcoming and want to know whether it will be DSA round or domain specific round. The recruiter is not being clear about it. How do I approach her and ask her what is the first round about? I asked once but the answer has confused me. (interviewing for  SDE 2)

P.S. It is an AI company and I am being hired for a speech tech role

Can I ask to speak with the interviewer over email?

Software Engineer

Can I ask to speak with the interviewer over email?- Grapevine

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I recently interviewed at a startup for a Backend role. I cleared the initial take-home assignment round and subsequent DSA round and their HR told me the third round would be a Design round. I prepared accordingly. At the time of the interview, no one showed up. I had to wait for 15 minutes for someone to show up. Instead of asking me a Design question, the latecomer asked me another DSA question. I asked him why is he doing that as it was clearly communicated to be a Design round. The interviewer said Design would be asked in the next round if I clear this one. Weird!

He only gave me 10 minutes to come up with the solution. After that he spilled the answer, and cut the call abruptly. I get a rejection email the next day.

Now why am I writing this post? Because I just saw the CTO of thar company rant on Linkedin about how his candidates declined their offer letters at the last minute. The moral of the story is that if you misbehave with your candidates, they will misbehave with you. So be prepared to take the L.

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I have interview in Google for Senior developer. If anyone is from there or has given the interview, then can you guys help me with the preparation. The first round is DSA one.

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Role: Data scientist 

It's my 2nd round but I am clueless what else they are going to ask!?

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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?

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Have upcoming DSA rounds for Staff Software Engineer at Google. Any suggestions around the type of questions to expect or related topics?

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Hi guys,

If you have interviewed with amazon recently for SDE2 position, can you share questions asked to you ?

I have cleared Online assessment, and need some help preparing for the interview

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I received a call and a subsequent HRank test for this company Lytx. 

There was a DSA problem where: For a given MxN matrix containing only 1s or 0s, we had to identify the minimum number of left or right cyclical shifts required on the row for getting at least 1 column with all ones. 
Sample Input: ['1001,'0101,'0000'] 


I used chat gpt and still couldn't figure out an exact solution, leave aside solving it on my own.

Question for the community: Say they select me for a further round anyways, will the interview as well be this brutal in terms of DSA ? Are these companies expecting programming prodigies or am I just not there in terms of my problem solving journey ?

Hoping for some brutally honest responses.

Gave a hackerrank test for Lytx

Hi Guys,
I am attending an interview process for Lead Data Science. I want to know the previous experiences with to improvise my interview experience. 
The company having 5 rounds and each round is an elimination (the scary part).

First round is DSA and Data Science fundamental. Where I have learnt DSA 5years ago and now I’m out of practice. For Data Science it might be more like ML (I assume). 

Second round is System Design, which will be more on designing system and scalability 

Third round is more off Technical And Managerial around.

4th round is managerial round 

5th round is HR discussion 

I want to know where to prepare for all the rounds and what’s the efficient way to prepare for it.

Interview Experience Required

Data Scientist

Education: Tier 3 College
TC: ~34L
YOE: 3 in PBCs (including MAANG) (Currently SE2)

I recently got a chance to interview with Microsoft and it was probably one of the worst interview experiences ever.

Team: CCE - Commerce Customer Experience (BEWARE OF THESE FOLKS!)

Round 1 - March 27, 2024
An engineer from WA reached out to me via call and told me that they want to interview me for an opening. I was happy and agreed for an interview the next day at night. In the meantime, I asked the seniority, the job description, and the interview structure. He said 4 rounds and sent me a SE2 job description. He asked me DSA and some basic Java Questions. The interview went very well.
Self Verdict: Pass
Actual Verdict: Pass

Round 2 - April 1, 2024
A manager (who would have become my manager if selected), called me. He sits in HYD office. Asked me for an interview. He asked me tougher DSA and System Design. The interview went very well.
Self Verdict: Pass
Actual Verdict: Pass

Round 3 - April 10, 2024
Another person, who is the manager of the 2nd interviewer called me and asked me for an interview. Same, DSA, System Design. The interview went very well.
Self Verdict: Pass
Actual Verdict: Pass

Before round 4, I had to call and write emails to my 3rd round of interviewer to ask for updates as there is no HR involved; and he said, "The position has been put to hold because of some internal restructuring. Please just wait!"

Round 4 - April 24, 2024
Another perosn called me from WA, and requested to schedule an interview. I thought this would be my last round. He asked me DSA, and tried to understand my profle and asked me some AA interview like questions. The interview went very well.
Self Verdict: Pass
Actual Verdict: Pass

Now, I was just hoping for a call form the HR to ask me for details to release an offer. But now the twist starts!

Read more here:

Most Pathetic Microsoft Interview Experience after 8 rounds - L61

I am working as a front-end developer in a startup for 2+ years and i want to switch to a different company.

The problem is I have only worked on the frontend in my current job though my designation is SDE in my offer letter. I don't have much knowledge about backend either.While applying for jobs the JD says i should have work experience in backend tech so in this case should I apply to those jobs or not.There are very few job openings for frontend and everyone is asking for full stack.

Will my interviewer asks questions for backend also though I have not worked on it? Or should I only focus on DSA.I have a good knowledge on frontend.

Should I just focus on frontend and DSA for my interviews? I am planning to Target FAANGM and good product start-ups

Experience - 2+

Tc - 9.5(8.5 + 1 bonus)

Are frontend devs not eligible to apply for SDE roles?

Can you list down the companies you have interviewed at for Data Scientist/ML roles and tell us whether DSA was asked?

I'll start:

Paypal, Visa, Truecaller, Navi - No DSA (had multiple rounds)
Paytm, Coinbase - No DSA(Rejected after one round)
Walmart- Asked DSA, but it didn't carry much weight
Zeta, Microsoft - Asked DSA

Which top product companies ask DSA in their data scientist interviews and which ones don't?

Senior Data Scientist

Can anyone share interview experience with Flexport? Or any resources that can help me prepare well.

Thankyou :)

Need Help!!!

I came across a company’s interview process. Here’s my experience.
They are hiring for Lead Data Scientist. As I asked the process they mentioned have a 5 step process. 

1. DSA and Data Science Fundamentals
2. System Design
3. Data Science & LLM Round
4. Managerial Round
5. HR round

Why is DSA required for this role? Also what kind of questions you came across? And what is your experience? 

Note: Don’t ask for Company Name

Data Science Interview

Hi, I'm a software engineer with close to 6 YOE. This is my second company and I feel pretty stagnant here working for 3 years and see no growth. I've started preparing. Is DSA still being asked in the interviews even for people with experience ? How many rounds are there usually and what is being tested? Your advice would be very much appreciated :)

Need help:Starting preparations for a switch

So I applied on Coindcx website for an open role about a week ago.

Their HR “manager” called me after CV review and asked general questions like past role, why looking for a change etc. Then came the CTC part. He said my expected CTC is out of their budget as their budget is like 10% increment from my current role but he will try to stretch to 15%, the next day I called and said since I need to move city as well if you can get upto 20, I am good. His response “lets start the process and then we will see”

Next day Round 1. The person join the called and was without camera, even though my camera was on (I always thought its common courtesy to have camera on). From her way of talking it looked she was not prepared or afraid to take interview.

There was no introduction, no hello, we straight away went to interview. She said she will ask 1 DSA question, 1 SQL question then some theory. 

I solved the DSA question, she asked me to add few things I did, now her reaction to this was (I am not able to understand how your code works so I am not sure it will give output).

Then we went to SQL question, her question had incorrect values and I had to point it out to her, I solved that as well with some assumptions as I forgot some syntax. She then forgot the actual output and said your output is incorrect then I showed this is what you asked so she was like okay

Then abruptly we ended the interview when she said please ask any questions which I asked around work, even that she was not answering correctly. It was like either she was not interested or she was afraid.

Within hours I got rejection mail as well.

So either because of CTC they did a formal interview (which  I am like you can say you are out of budget), or if your interviewer is not good please get it fixed.

Will never apply for this company for sure

One of the worst interview experience with CoinDCX

I had a similar experience with them a couple of years ago except it was a panel interview with 3 interviewers.  
  
 Nobody had their cameras turned on. They asked 2 DSA questions which I solved with correct output. One of the panel (the loudest one) didn't correctly know the amortised time complexity of the second question and I had to explain the maths and calculations from ground up. Then they abruptly ended the interview (no time for questions) and I got a rejection mail later. 
  
 I've never applied to them and will never respond to their recruiter messages again.

Data engineer

What questions to ask interviewer after SDE interview.

Have upcoming dsa rounds at Google for staff software engineer position at Google. Any suggestions on the type or topic of questions to expect. Any prep guide or study material would also help a lot.

Google DSA Rounds

Currently working as SDE 1 and looking for SDE-1 opportunities only.
Asking what kind of things they ask us in interviews?
And how much they dive into them?
Like 
DSA is important. Except that what should I start preparing on?
Do companies really ask System design? If yes 
What they ask lld or hld?

Can I ask to speak with the interviewer over email?

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