Gameskraft SSE Interview experience
Experience - 3 yoe
Education - B.Tech IT

1. Phone screen - give 2 arrays of words, find the smallest range in array 1 of which all words are present in array 2. Some why looking, and other basic questions.
2. Design library mgmt system for issuing with focus on database schema and database operations with concurrency cases to be handled
3. Project discussion + design multiplayer quiz game
4. HR round

Round 1 - Phone Screen
Duration - 1 hr
They outsource phone screens to other hiring organisations.

1. Given 2 arrays of words, find the smallest range in array 1 of which all words are present in array
2. Some questions around why looking, motivation, etc. and other basic questions.

Round 2 - Design
Duration - 1 hr
Design library management system for issuing books with the focus on API, data schema and database operations where concurrency cases to be handled. Also, asked to write some pseudo logic as well.
(I guess it qualifies for design?!)

Round 3 - Hiring Manager
Duration - 1 hour
Project discussion + Design multiplayer quiz game

Round 4 - HR round
Duration - 45 mins
Questions were like:

1. team disagreements where you were wrong/right
2. when you convinced your manager to do something
3. tell me about time where you missed the deadline, how you dealt with it, etc
4. tell me about time where you caused issue in production, how you dealt with it, etc
5. strengths/weaknesses

Result -

• Well, they were ready to make an offer. But before making an offer, they needed something from me - copies of all govt identification(adhaar, pan), salary slips, appraisal letter, stock details, competing offers, and a couple other things. (why not come to my home, have a tea and check everything in person?)
• And when I pushed back on few of these things, then they were like how will we validate. What do you have to validate while making an offer? I have given you my expectations and competing offers, just make an offer or don't bother at all. Either invest into background check or start trusting potential employees!
• When I asked for some rough range on the salary for that role, they did not disclose a damn thing. If you have the nerve to ask everything from candidate, have some decency to share at least a few details.
• Don't these recruiters know that candidates are not obligated to share their current salary before accepting the offer. I mean its high time that these startup recruiters in India get this settled in their mind. I have not seen even a single FAANG recruiter forcing me to share this information.

I declined to share all these info and asked them to keep their offer.
Thankfully, I dodged a bullet!