Position: Software Engineer at product based company
Experience: 1.10 years
Location: Bangalore
Date: April, 2021
I started my interview preparation from March 2020(form lock down) and started solving daily challenges and regularly participated in weekly contests. After I felt confident with interviewing, I went through the interview process of amazon(thrice), zoho, paypal, flipkart, dunzo, dream11, 3 start ups.
After one fine day linkedin recruiter contacted me via mail and sent hackerrank test link
online test: The test had 4 leetcode medium level questions and I solved the same.
Within a week the recruiter contacted for onsite rounds and explained the process. asked for some time and an interview scheduled on april first week.
Onsite rounds:
Had 5 rounds in a single day.
The rounds are
2 DS & algo rounds
1 System Design (Linkedin asks system design for sde1 too)
Technical Communication round (Deep discussion in current project ) and
hiring manager round.
The interviewers are very nice and it was a wonderful experience interviewing with them.
round1(ds & algo):
- https://leetcode.com/problems/all-oone-data-structure/
- https://leetcode.com/problems/nested-list-weight-sum
Solved both questions within time
round2(hiring manager)
Asked behavioural questions and dive deep into current work experience and also a few design questions. This is the most difficult round overall.
round3(technical communication)
Discussed in detail my current project architecture(high level design, schema design, design decisions, and few more). i already prepared for this round and did pretty well.
round4(ds & algo 2)
- https://leetcode.com/problems/binary-tree-upside-down
- Design LFU cache. couldn't solve this on time and but came up with a solution
round5(System Design)
System Design for video streaming service similar to ( youtube, netflix). already prepared for similar topic. so did well.
Result:
After a week the onsite recruiter came back and said they are providing an offer. I accepted the same.
compensation: https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/1204411/linkedin-sde1-bangalore/947850