Background: BE CS Tier-3\nExperience: 1 year 2 months @ Mid-tier Bank\nRole: SWE @ Azure C+AI\n\n**Oct 21, 2021**\nGot a call from recruiter: was asked about experience, location and current tech stack and put me on hold. Found a relevant team and shared my profile to the team.\n\n**Oct 23, 2021**\nGot an email with OA link\n\n**Oct 27, 2021**\nOA:\nQ1: easy sorting/greedy\nQ2: Count the number of unique cells that will be visited in a grid with obstacles (when you hit an obstacle, take a right turn)\n\n**Nov 10, 2021**\nRecruiter called to inform I\'ve cleared OA, and scheduled interviews.\n\n**Nov 12, 2021**\nRound 1: was to be conducted by SDE-2\nInterviewer didn\'t show up (rescheduled to Nov 15)\n\n**Nov 12, 2021**\nRound 2: conducted by SDE-2\nIntro\nOverview of my contribution at current organization\nQ1: (LC hard) similar to [this problem](https://leetcode.com/problems/max-chunks-to-make-sorted-ii/), but need to print the actual chunks instead of just the count\nQ2: (LC hard) [Binary Tree Max Sum Path](https://leetcode.com/problems/binary-tree-maximum-path-sum/)\nInterviewer seemed satisfied.\n\n**Nov 15, 2021**\nRound 3: conducted by SDE-2\nIntro\nQ1: (medium) Given the list of meetings of 2 persons, and a time slot, tell if we can schedule a meeting in this time slot.\nSolved with Binary Search and identified and fixed edge cases, interviewer seemed happy with the solution.\nA lot of time was left so interviewer elaborated on his work, org, etc.\n\n**Nov 16, 2021**\nScheduled next round on Nov 22.\n\n**Nov 22, 2021**\nRound 4: Principal SWE shadowed by Principal EM\nThis was the "AA" round.\nInterviewer says "hi" and gets straight to the point skipping his & my intro.\nWhy did you switch companies in just 1 year?\nWhy do you want to quit your current job?\nWhat work have you done at your current company?\nGive an overview of the product.\nShare screen and explain the flow of the project in text editor.\nI get the general idea but I need more detailed description.\nList down all APIs in this project.\nList down all relational tables and their schema.\nWhy are the tables designed the way they are?\nWrite code to insert/update data. Why is connection created and closed for every API call?\nCursors are slow. Why?\nDo you use synchronous/asynchronous controllers?\nAlso, it was very difficult to explain anything, because there was tons of cross questioning after every line I spoke.\n\nReaching the AA means 90% job is done, unless you mess up royally, and folks this is exactly how you mess up royally. This was a guaranteed rejection. I was so sure about it, instead of the HR telling me, I told her my result lol

Background: BE CS Tier-3\nExperience: 1 year 2 months @ Mid-tier Bank\nRole: SWE @ Azure C+AI\n\nOct 21, 2021\nGot a call from recruiter: was asked about experi