HR Phone Screen
Questions: HR explained the details of this role and asked all the general screening questions like work experience, reason for switch, compensation, location, etc. At the end of the call, HR detailed the interview process and shared a link for an online assessment.
Candidate's Approach
No approach provided.
Interviewer's Feedback
No feedback provided.
Online Assessment
Questions:
- Hackerrank test
- MCQ on Distributed Systems/REST API/Database/Cache
- 1 Leetcode Medium problem
- 1 Problem on fetching and filtering data from an API
Candidate's Approach
No approach provided.
Interviewer's Feedback
No feedback provided.
Take Home Assignment
Questions: The take-home assignment was to create a cron parser. The HR suggested not to spend more than 3 hours and mentioned that the code should be extensible. (If you like the code you wrote, then it is time to submit it).
Candidate's Approach
No approach provided.
Interviewer's Feedback
No feedback provided.
Virtual Call 1
Questions: This was a coding round where the interviewer was more interested in the approach taken to solve the take-home assignment. The interviewer then asked to implement two more extensions, and at the end, the code was tested in the console with different test cases. The candidate was encouraged to come up with test cases and ask if the interviewer had any special test cases in mind.
Candidate's Approach
No approach provided.
Interviewer's Feedback
No feedback provided.
Virtual Call 2
Questions: The system design round involved designing a system that can deliver 6 million burgers in 10 minutes.
Candidate's Approach
No approach provided.
Interviewer's Feedback
No feedback provided.
Behavioural Round
Questions: Deep dive on past experience. The interviewer asked:
- Tell me about a time when you had a challenging time in your project and how you overcame it.
- Tell me about a time when you mentored your junior.
Candidate's Approach
No approach provided.
Interviewer's Feedback
No feedback provided.
Overall Experience: The overall experience was smooth; interviewers were sensible. While not very difficult, good preparation can help present solutions well. The candidate received a call from HR stating there was strong feedback from the coding and architectural rounds, but the feedback from the behavioral round was not favorable, leading to a rejection.