Status: 2.6 years of experience at different startups, B.Tech from a state govt college in India

Position: SDE2 at DreamX(Dream11)
Location: Mumbai, India
Date: January, 2021
I applied through an employee referral and was directly called for onsite interviews.

Round 1 (60 min, DSA round):
1. Discussion on projects and past experiences
2. Some HLD/LLD stuffs related to my previous work
3. One upper medium level question on Linkedlist
4. One question on Kadane algorithm

Round 2 ( 60 min, Bar Raiser round with VP at DreamX ):
1. Questions on javascript
2. Very deep discussion on past work experience and projects
3. Some questions on HLD related to my past experience
4. Questions on Java
5. Discussion on what Dream11 does

Round3 (60 min, DSA round):
1. Discussion on one of my project at my current company. Asked questions on scalability challenges.
2. Medium level coding question related to mathematics

Round 4(50 min, HR Round):
1. Discussion on past experience
2. Asked many standard behavioural questions

Round 5(50 min, Round with Head of Product at DreamX):
1. Discussion related to my past experiences and my greatest achievements
2. Situation based and behavioural questions were asked
3. Discussion on Dream11 work culture and why I want to join them

Round 6(50 min, Round with CEO of DreamX):
I was asked to take his interview. I asked many questions to him and we discussed a lots of topics related to work culture, growth and leaning opportunities..etc at Dream11, future of sports in India, even we discussed about the politics :P
At the end he also asked me some questions related to my passion about sport, interests and my journey till now.

PS: They give equal weightage to culture fit and problem solving skills and they strongly focus on their DO-PUT culture.
Verdict : Selected

Compensation Details: https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/1019464/dreamxdream11-sde2-mumbai/820631

Position: SDE2 at ClearTax
Location: Bangalore, India
Date: January, 2021
I applied through an employee referral and was directly called for onsite interviews.

Round1(Machine Coding) : was asked to build a log parser in 1.5 hours
Round2(Code Review Round, 1hour): Interviewer asked questions related to log parser code. Discussion on HLD/LLD of that application.

Round3(LLD/HLD round, 1 hour): was asked to design Bookmyshow (LLD + HLD)

Round4(Problem Solving, 1.5 hours) : Was asked Medium-Hard level Questions(4 questions) on Backtracking, Tree, DP and Hashing. Was asked to write code for 2 questions and was asked to come up with pseudo code for other two.

Round5(HM Round, 1 hour): Standard behavioural questions were asked + schema design for Messaging app(problem scope was very small)

Verdict : Selected

Compensation Details: https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/1019723/ClearTaxor-SDE2-or-Bangalore

Position: SDE2 at Flipkart
Location: Bangalore, India
Date: Nov, 2020
I applied through an employee referral and was directly called for onsite interviews.

Round 1(Machine Coding Round, 2.5 hours) : was asked to build a food ordering system

Round 2(Problem Solving, 1 hour) : Was asked 1 puzzle and 2 medium level questions on Heap and stack. Was asked to write pseudo code only

Round 3(LLD/HLD round, 1 hour): was asked to design a small part of an e-commerce system (LLD + HLD)

Round 4(HM Round, 1 hour): Standard behavioural questions were asked + very deep discussion on one of my project

Verdict: My design round didn’t go well but my machine coding and PS rounds were great so recruiter asked me if I would be interested in SDE 1 role But I was only interested in SDE2 role.(Rejected)

Position: Senior Software Engineer at Whitehat Jr
Location: Bangalore, India
Date: Dec, 2020
I applied through Instahyre and was directly called for onsite interviews.

Round 1(DSA Round, 1 hour) : was asked 2 easy-medium level questions on two-pointers and DP.

Round 2(DSA Round, 1 hour) : Was asked 1 medium level question on two pointers.

Round 3(HR Round, 20 min): Discussion on salary and culture at Whitehat Jr.

Verdict : Selected

Compensation Details: https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/1019729/Whitehat-Jror-Senior-Software-Engineer-or-Bangalore

Position: Senior Software Engineer at BharatPe
Location: New Delhi, India
Date: Dec, 2020
Recruiter approached me on LinkedIn.

Round 1(DSA Round, 1 hour) : was asked 2 easy-medium level questions on Linkedlist and Heap + 1 question on SQL.
Round 2(CTO Round, 1 hour): Discussion on salary, culture and future of BharatPe + Was asked many rapid fire questions on http, indexing, sharding, on different databases like mongodb, mysql and redis.

Verdict : Selected

Position: SDE2 at Zeta(Directi)
Location: Bangalore, India
Date: Nov, 2020
I applied through an employee referral and was directly called for onsite interviews.

Round 1(DSA Round, 1 hour) : was asked one easy question on hashing and one upper medium level question on graph ( on Union Find Algorithm ).
Round 2(LLD round, 2 hour): Was asked the LLD of a parking lot.
Round 3 ( HM round, 1 hour): After 3 days of LLD round, recruiter told me that my feedback of LLD round was positive and she scheduled my final HM round in next week. But they cancelled this round on the day of interview and freezed the hiring. I was told that they would connect with me once they resume the hiring again.