Education: B.Tech (2019) from tier 2 college
Years of Experience: 2.5 years
Current role: SDE-1 at an MNC
Round 1
Machine coding round. It was taken on Hackerrank platform where interviewer introduced the problem and I had to submit in 2.5 hours. I was asked to design a database using in-memory data structures that supports primary and secondary indexing.
Round 2
DS/Algo + LLD round. This went for two hours.
In the first hour 2 DS/Algo questions were asked of medium to hard difficulty.
In the second hour an LLD problem was given. I had to design a service that calls any passed endpoint at a fixed interval.
Hiring manager round
Discussion regarding past experiences and current role. Some behavioral questions were also asked.
Verdict: Selected for Backend Engineer