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Postman SDE-2 Interview Experience | Rejected

HR Call

Questions: Had a 5-10 min chat with the HR regarding past experience, scale of problems, etc.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


HM Call

Questions: Discussed the role and expectations, tech stack, past experience, and some behavioral questions.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


System Design Round

Questions: Design a weather management app that shows today's weather along with a probable forecast for the coming week. Weather and forecast data were to be fetched from multiple 3rd party systems.

Candidate's Approach

Had a good discussion on bottlenecks, scaling, authentication, etc., and was able to provide multiple solutions for different levels of scale.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Coding Round

Questions: Build a Users service which would be used to show users' friends that are online, update online/offline status:

Candidate's Approach

Used Express + MongoDB, and was able to set these APIs up within 45 mins, answered all follow-up questions, and discussed how the service would have to be designed to handle scale.

Interviewer's Feedback

Received positive feedback during the round.


Verdict

Rejected - Received a mail after 2 days that they decided to move ahead with another candidate. The candidate expressed disappointment as they felt they had done well and vibed with all interviewers.