Lol this is turning out to be true. My friends who worked there were saying it has a hire to fire culture

Data engineer

If they find someone at 1L less, they'll not blink firing you even if you're very senior.

Senior product manager

What is product roles? can anyone explain

Frontend Engineer

Round 1 : Online assessment with 1 DSA question for ~45 min. Variation of valid anagrams LC question. There were no test cases for the code. We had to run the

Round 1 : Online assessment with 1 DSA question for ~45 min. Variation of valid anagrams LC question. There were no test cases for the code. We had to run the code and make sure that we have covered all the test cases. Round 2: Interview was mostly resume based. Went over my projects in resume and asked the DB schema of my project. Asked some basic questions of javascript. Round 3 : People and culture round. Asked about college ending and what my dream role was. Asked if I was open to product roles to which I straight away said NO (This is probably the reason I was rejected)"

Jar app backend developer intern interview experience

Jar app backend developer intern interview experience- Grapevine

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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

High paying companies (startups) who don't ask DSA!

Software Developer

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

Software Engineer

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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.

Poor Hiring at Fintech

Senior Engineer

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

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!

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Hello folks 👋 I have interview lined up at Zeta for Senior Software engineer - frontend role. 

Does anyone have an idea what  kind of questions they ask? Not looking for the exact question I just want to get an idea around the type of questions. 

Thanks 🙏

Zeta frontend LLD interview

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.

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Anybody (with >=2 YOE) here who secured a job purely on the basis of DSA?

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Recently gave amazon interviews for theirs ads team. My DSA round with LP went good and the lld and hld round also went fine as i was able to come up design in HLD covering metric’s monitoring and fail safe and in LLD i was able to cover p0 and p1 requirements. Got rejection after 4 days and recruiter said HLD and LLD rounds were not upto the mark.
Folks i wanted to check where did i made mistake?
I checked with interviewer also if he/she is fine with what i was suggesting and they were okay with it

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