Status: 4.5 years experience | BTech IT from Tier-2 college
Position: Software Engineer - 2
Location: Remote
Date: April, 2022

I applied for this role via Instahyre and got a call after couple of days and immediately first round was scheduled.

Round 1: DSA/Coding Round
Q1 : Binary Search Tree to Greater sum tree
Q2 : Group Annagrams together

Coded both the questions smoothly.
Verdict : Hire/Strong Hire

Round 2: LLD Round
Q1 : Design seat booking in IRCTC, Write DB schema, tables, Write quries to fetch different sets of data. Interviewer was very supportive and was helping to take in me right direction. Didn't have write code because of time constraints.

Q2 : Write a code for powerSet of array. (Discussed, explained the approach, and coded)

Everything went pretty well and interviewer was happy with me.
Verdict : Hire

Round 3 : HLD
Design Amazon Recommendation feature.
Written down all the requirements, discussed and flow along with drawing all the components. But I am not sure what else interviewers was expecting. She was not even showing me the expected direction. This round went average.

Verdict : No Hire/ Extra round

Round 4 : HLD + Discussion on past projects + Coding
Q1) How and what would you like to improve in previous projects, Microservices, Databases.
Q2) Coding question on find the missing entry in file(String[]file) parsed file. Interviewer was expecting production ready code without any errors on text editor. (Coded correctly on Notedpad).

This round went average to good I believe as we discussed most of things in detail.

Finally, after many follow-ups with HR, Got to know that they are not proceeding ahead with me.
Result : Rejected

I was geunienly expecting an offer, But the response was shocking for me. Overall process took almost a month.