Current Position: Principal Engineer 2
Company - Product based
YoE: 9
Location: Hyderabad, India
**Phenom People
Total Number of Rounds - 3
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Round 1:
This round was technical and with senior engineer PDE-3
Project Experience + Easy LC question
Round 2:
This round was technical with Principal Architect
System Design - Notification system
Round 3:
This round was with Director of Engineering,
Questions are based on Behavioral + Project Experience + System Design
Selected
**OCI
Total Number of Rounds - 5 + 1(Basic Screening)
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Basic Screening:
Happened with one of the senior US engineer
she covered all the aspects giving 15 mins for each
Project Experience
LC Medium Problem - Merging Intervals
System Design - Proxy
Behavioral question - Tell Me About a Time You Failed
Passed the basic screening and got call from HR asking dates to schedule next five rounds
Round 1:
Medium LC question - at most k distinct characters (sliding window)
Project related questions
Round 2:
Variation of 3 sum problem
Another array problem (Didn't see that on LC) can say its Medium
Round 3:
System Design - Twitter
1 Behavioral question (conflict with team mate)
This is the only round where I felt I could have done more a bit
Round 4: (Hiring Manager)
Asked the recent design you have done in current project
Few other questions on culture and past work
Almost at the end he said he was looking for someone who has experience in developing cloud native applications and I don't have that, not sure how this is going to impact on my result
Round 5: (BarTender)
This is the round I enjoyed a lot, it was more of a conversation, this round was taken by 2 who were associated with Oracle for 18+ years
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