Status - Fresher
Education - B.Tech I.T
Application - On campus
Previous experience - Samsung R&D 2-month intern

• Online Assesment -

  • Duration - 2hrs
  • Platform - DoSelect
  • Format - Aptitude + 3 Coding questions
  • Two of the coding questions were simple implementation-based problems
  • Third one was a variation of https://leetcode.com/problems/spiral-matrix/

• Round 1 (PS/DS round) -

  • Duration - 1hr
  • https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-cost-for-tickets/
  • https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-valid-parentheses/
  • https://leetcode.com/problems/compare-version-numbers/ - Interviewer asked me whether I had solved this question before, skipped it when I said that I had
  • Easier version of https://leetcode.com/problems/decode-string/

• Round 2 (HM round) -

  • Duration - 1hr
  • Internship experience discussion
  • Brief discussion about Twitter database design - how would you implement tweet/retweet/reactions functionalities etc.

• Round 3 (Culture Fitment round) -

  • Duration - 15 mins
  • Internship experience discussion
  • Basic HR questions

• Result - Selected :)

• Thoughts -

  1. Keep calm if you don't get the best solution straight away. My interviewer did not expect fully working code, was more interested in my approach.
  2. Read as many interview exp as you can from LC, GFG etc. Legit helps a lot!
  3. Dealing with rejections is a skill, hone it. :D

• Compensation - https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/1430030/Navi-or-SDE1-or-Bangalore