Background : Non-circuital from Tier-1 college
Experience : 10 months
Position : SDE I

Asked for a referral on Linkdin and applied on their portal.

Both the rounds were on same day with 15 minutes gap

Round 1 (1 hour)
Q1 - Given an array of integers(positive/neg/zero), find the maximum sum of a subset such that no two elements are adjacent. https://leetcode.com/problems/house-robber/ [working code]
Q2 - LLD => Design a elevator system. Also optimize which elevator will come to the floor from which a request is made [discussed approach only for 35 minutes]
Q3 - What is database indexing ?
Q4 - What is redis locking
Q5 - https://leetcode.com/problems/validate-binary-search-tree/ [working code]

Round 2 (1 hour)
Q1 - Explain one of your projects
Q2 - https://leetcode.com/problems/diameter-of-binary-tree/
Q3 - Given the arrival and departure times of all trains that reach a railway station, the task is to find the minimum number of platforms required for the railway station so that no train waits.
We are given two arrays that represent the arrival and departure times of trains that stop.
Q4 - Difference between @Bean and @Component in Springboot
Q5 - Is Java pass by reference or pass by value ?

Round 3 (1 hour)
Q1 - Asked to explain one specific project mentioned in resume
Q2 - https://leetcode.com/problems/max-area-of-island/
Q3 - https://leetcode.com/problems/word-break/

Round 4 (30 minutes)
Caual round with Principal engineer, was asked to explain projects in my resume, about challenges I faced and how did I tackle them, goals, etc. Was told about Livspace culture, projects, tech stack, teams, etc