Position: Software Engineer I (L60)\nTeam: Universal Store Team\nLocation: Redmond, WA\n\n\n**Initial Call with Recruiter:**\n* Got contacted on LinkedIn regarding the UST team hiring event. I showed interest and had a 30-min call with recruiter. During the call, we discussed about my experiences and interests, immigration status, UST team and hiring event process. After a couple of days, I received an invitation to complete online coding assessment.\n\n**Online Assessment: (1 hour)**\n* https://leetcode.com/problems/reverse-string recursively and iteratively\n* [Swap 2 numbers without using a temp variable](https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/swap-two-numbers-without-using-temporary-variable)\n* [Given an array, put even numbers at even index and odd numbers at odd index](https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/even-numbers-even-index-odd-numbers-odd-index)\n\nAfter a week, recruiter responded with results of online coding assessment and put me in touch with interview coordinator for travel arrangements.\n\n\n**Interview Day:**\nAround 15 candidates attended the hiring event. We had lunch and met with a few senior people from UST. They gave details about UST, work culture, UST tech stack etc. After that, there were 4 rounds of interviews. Each round was 45 mins long and there was a 15 mins break after each round.\n\n**Round 1:**\n* Given an undirected graph where each node has a letter. Find if a given string can be traversed starting from any node in the graph and visiting the neighboring nodes. Basically, it\'s a simple DFS on graph.\n\n**Round 2:**\n* Design data structures for battleship game.\n\n**Round 3:**\n* https://leetcode.com/problems/set-matrix-zeroes\n* WhatsApp like chat messenger design.\n\n**Round 4:**\n* Most challenging project I\u2019ve worked on and why was that challenging.\n* Design Snake Game.

Position: Software Engineer I (L60)\nTeam: Universal Store Team\nLocation: Redmond, WA\n\n\nInitial Call with Recruiter:\n Got contacted on LinkedIn regarding t