SDE-2 | Cred | Bangalore | Offer

First Round (Exploratory Round) (1 hr)

Discussion on previous work experience and Future goals and few behavioural Questions.

Second Round (Exploratory Round) (45 min)

Deep dive on current company project architecture and trade offs. Question on what parameters need to be considered while choosing one language/ software over other. (Grilled a lot on this for 20 mins).

Third Round (Machine Coding Round) (2.5 hour)

Implement a wide column store like Cassandra (bonus : support secondary indexes).

Fourth Round (Algorithm + System Design) (1.5 hr)

1. Given a date, find the day of the week
2. Problem which can be solved using BFS
3. Design Linkedin Suggest connections feature. (HLD)

Fifth Round (Hiring Manager) (1 hr)

1. Behavioural Questions (why Cred, strengths, weaknesses, critical feedback, self criticisms, learnings, etc)
2. Design Splunk like log manager system supporting queries with filters on last min, hr, day, week etc. (Asked to minimise latency for few query patterns)(HLD).