Experience: 3.5 yrs at mid-size US-based startup
Position: SDE1
Location: Gurgaon, India

1. Online Assessment (~90mins)
   • HackerRank round
   • I don't remember the questions but they were LC Easy (String based) and LC Medium (Stack based)
2. DSA | Phone Interview (1hr)
   • https://leetcode.com/problems/unique-paths/
   • https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-path-sum/
3. DSA | Virtual F2F (1hr)
   • https://leetcode.com/problems/house-robber/
   • Some Java based questions
4. DSA | Virtual F2F (1hr)
   • https://leetcode.com/problems/group-anagrams/
   • Other work related questions
5. DSA + SD | Virtual F2F (1.5hr)
   • Design API rate limiter (HLD)
   • Applications of Decorator, Dependency Injection & other design patterns (was asked to write sample Java code for each)
   • https://leetcode.com/problems/alien-dictionary/
     • Wrote incomplete code for this & ran out of time. However, I explained my approach and edge cases to the interviewer.
6. DSA + SD - Virtual F2F (1hr)
   • A question similar to https://leetcode.com/problems/merge-k-sorted-lists/
     • Interviewer asked various approaches to solve this
     • Also discussed a scenario to merge sorted lists online
   • Design Job Scheduler using message queues (HLD)
7. Hiring Manager - Virtual F2F (30mins)
   • This was a non-technical round where we discussed on-going projects, development lifecycle, motivation to join GS, etc

I received the offer after 1 week.