Status : 2023 grad, IIT/NIT/IIIT
Position : MTS (Server Tech)
Location : Bangalore/Hyderabad
Date of offer : August 2022
Online coding assessment: This round had one coding problem, one SQL problem, one API implementation problem and 6 MCQ's. For getting selected for interview you need to solve all the question. It was on hackerrank platform.
Interview
Round 1:(Elimination round)
Taken by : senior MTS.
Difficulty level : Easy
Duration of interview : 30 minutes.
- started with introduction and later asked a coding question : https://leetcode.com/problems/integer-to-roman/. He asked me to write production ready code.
- Asked questions from core topics like: Inline function, Polymorphism, Show method overridding.
- Had a discussion on works done in internship.
Round 2:(Elimination round)
Taken by : Principle MTS
Difficulty level : Medium
Duration of interview : 25 minutes.
Started with a quick intro and the area of expertise to be mentioned. I mention it to be DSA. So he jumped directly to coding question.
Question asked : https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-substring-without-repeating-characters/
Discussed the approach from brute force to optimised using two pointer. Later he asked me to implement the same in notepad. After the coding was done he said it to run on any online ide, luckily my code passed without any errors.
Later he followed up the question with printing all the strings having maximum length and non-repeating characters.
Round 3:(Elimination round)
Taken by : Product Manager
Difficulty : Medium
Duration of interview : 15 minutes
- Discussion on work done in internship in depth.
- Discussion on project done outside of internship not much in depth just the work that is accomplised by the project and the motivation for building it.
About me : Have been consistently practicing on leetcode for last 1 year.
Question solved on leetcode : 1000+, 150+ LC hard, 650+ medium.
Rating : Knight
Streak : 300+ days.
My suggestion : The interview experience can vary from one person to other person a lot, but I would suggest that you should highlight your strength to the interviewer so that he asks more question from it. The DSA asked were not very hard and very standard question, so most of the people that are being interviewed will answer it, so the selection would be done on the basis of your communication of your approach, accuracy, readability and edge cases covered in one go. Try to practice writing code in google doc or notepad also. They did not ask much questions from core topics from me but my other mates were asked about that. I think luck also plays a role but Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
All the best to all of you, Keep working hard it takes only one offer to change your life but the preparation is what you will have to do until that day.
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