DevRev | SDE-2 | Nov 2021 [Incomplete(Cancelled midway)]
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YOE: 2.5 years
Current position: SDE-2 at mid sized public company

Phone call with recruiter:
The recruiter explained me what the company does and asked about my current work experience. Then he applied me for one of the open roles and shared a link wherein I had to write a story of atleast 500 words about my journey so far. I was little surprised. The recruiter mentioned that the story should abide by the above rule and not doing so would eliminate me from further rounds. After submitting the story, I got the link for OA.

OA (1.5-2 hr) [DSA coding + MCQs]:
The OA was on Code Signal platform. It had 3 questions - easy/medium level and few CS MCQs which were also easy. I completed the test well within time and was sure to get qualified.

Round 1 (1hr 20mins)[DSA + Coding + Projects]:
I didn't knew what would be asked in this round. Even the recruiter had little knowledge of what's asked in each round. I was well prepared in DSA, System Design, Machine coding as I had given many other interviews recently then.

The interviewer had some past experience in the company I was working and asked me about my projects in resume. The interviewer had prior knowledge of my and few other teams in my company and so asked a little bit in depth. This lasted for 30 minutes.

Then I was given a coding problem. CodeSignal platform was used here as well.
I was asked a leetcode hard question - https://leetcode.com/problems/design-in-memory-file-system/
I was asked to implement ls and mkdir/create functions from above problem. I had seen and solved the problem before so I was able to easily do it during the interview.

Interviewer did allow me to use any language for coding but since my current work experience involved lot of coding in C++, I was expected to use C++. The round went well.

Later recruiter called me after few days and scheduled next round after 2 weeks. But till then I had got a very good offer from other company and so decided to terminate this interview process.

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