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SSE@FalconX | October 2024 | Offer

HR Screening Round

Questions: The HR screening round included basic questions regarding my background, experience, and interest in the role. The HR representative provided a detailed explanation of the company's growth and values, followed by a clear walkthrough of the interview and feedback process.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 1

Questions:

  1. Modified sliding window on a circular array. (Hard)
  2. Modified Graph problem based on finding shortest path between any two nodes. (Medium)
Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

Received strong hire in both rounds and proceeded to design interviews.


Round 2

Questions:

  1. String manipulation problem involving custom sorting. (Hard)
  2. Modified Binary Search. (Medium)
Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

Received strong hire in both rounds and proceeded to design interviews.


Low-Level Design (LLD)

Questions: The round started with an algorithmic problem—merging N heaps—which was then modified to handle scalability for extremely large datasets. The discussion evolved into designing a microservice to support the solution.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


High-Level Design (HLD)

Questions: Problem Statement: Design a trade execution engine for cryptocurrency trading, considering:

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Hiring Manager Round

Questions: HLD Question: Design a Top-K selling products/categories system for an e-commerce platform that handles high throughput (40K orders/second).

Key areas of focus:

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Behavioral Round

Questions: This round included thought-provoking behavioral questions, primarily focused on:

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Final Outcome