Status: Lateral with 6 years of experience
Position: Senior software engineer at Paytm Money
Location: Pune
Date: May, 2021

Online test (1 hour):

• 2 DS questions: One easy and one medium difficulty level. Finished both in 40 mins.

1st technical interview - DS/PS round (~1.5 hours):

• 3 DS questions: Variation of Two sum, Reverse LinkedList recursively and Tree zigzag traversal.
• Recursive implementation of reversing linkedlist took time, other 2 questions were straight forward, but overall round went well.

2nd technical interview - Design round (1 hour):

• Design notification system(sms, email, push notifications), and discussion around API contracts, scaling, CAP theorem etc.

Result: Offer (declined)