Status: 3.5 YOE
Position: SDE2 at Compass
Location: Remote
Date: Mar 2022

Karat Screening (60 min):

• Brief discussion about projects.
• Coding questions similar to this: https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/1815381/Compass-or-India-or-SDE2-or-Karat-Screening-or-Hyderabad-or-March-2022

Round-1 (Coding, 60mins)

• 1 LC medium question. based on array and graph. Interviewer didn't go to next question because:
  • He took lot of time to understand cycle finding using DFS.
  • He wanted another / better solution which doesn't use DFS.

Round-2 (HLD, 60mins)

• Design pastebin.

Round-3 (LLD + quick discussion on HLD, 60mins)

• Design reward system.

Round-4 (HM Round with main focus on System Design and past projects, 70mins)

• Discussion on architecture of services owned in current org.
• How would you create this service again? what improvements will you do ?
• Deep dive on AWS ElasticSearchService, DDB and S3.
• Tip: Compass uses AWS extensively so most of the sde are well versed in AWS, expect some good questions based on AWS (provided you have written any AWS service in resume).