Status: 8.10 years of experience, Software Engineer, Cisco and multiple service companies, B-tech from a Tier 3 college

Position: SSE Backend at Intuit
Location: Bangalore
Date: Jan, Feb 2022

Technical phone screen (1 hour):

• Introduction
• Questions on Microservies and Spring boot
• Leetcode medium problem on LinkedList
• Predicting output for few programs (exception handling, Strings, Integers and others)

Result: Positive

Technical Round & Craft Demo (1.5 hours):
A document is shared and asked to develop a distributed-tracing project using Spring boot

• Questions on Microservices
• Questions on Cloud computing
• Any new learning other than Java and any side projects
• Behavioural questions
• Design questions on Rate limiting
• Craft Demo walk-through
• Predicting output for few programs (String concatenation, Switch case, Inheritance, Method overloading/overriding)

Result: Positive

Technical Round (1.5 hours):
This interview is with Staff Software Engineer

• Questions on Cloud computing
• Questions on Kubernetes
• Leetcode medium quiestion on BST
• Questions on Endpoint security, Oauth2

Result: Positive

Managerial Round (30 minutes):

• Behavioural questions
• What did you expect from your previous company before joining and what changed that made you to look for a job change?
• Discussion on company culture
• Discussion on adapting to new technologies

Result: Positive

Technical Round (30 minutes):
This interview is with Principal Engineer, mostly high level design questions

• Questions on NoSQL (MongoDB)
• Questions on Cloud Computing (AWS)
• Questions on Security (api and infrastructure)
• Career aspirations

Result: Positive

Once I cleared the above rounds, I received offer in a week's time. Overall interview experience is positive.