New Grad - Masters
YOE : ~3
1 Phone Screen + 5 onsite rounds. A general interview for multiple teams located in both Seattle and Sunnyvale.
Phone Screen:
- Resume discussion
- Coding question, closely represnting https://leetcode.com/problems/closest-binary-search-tree-value-ii/
Onsite :
- Round 1 : (Coding)
Questions on Leadership Principles as expected.
A simple enough problem based on Meeting Rooms 2. Focus was on getting the code right on the very first go.
https://leetcode.com/problems/meeting-rooms-ii/
- Round 2 : (Hiring Manager)
A hiring manager round focused on leadership principles. (Focus on conflicts with manager & peers plus trying to see if you had the "instinct to be right")
- Round 3: (Design)
Design an online multiplayer Poker game --> Focus on LLD - OOP design. Questions on scaling the service.
Few leadership principle questions again (Focus on Customer Obsession)
- Round 4: (Bar Raiser - Coding)
Leadership Principles based primarily on "Invent and Simplify" and "Dive Deep".
Coding problem which was nothing but a Topo sort in disguise : https://leetcode.com/problems/course-schedule-ii/
Simple extension to print all possible correct orders.
(The interviewer kind of knew that one would know Topo sort. It was simply about coding it flawlessly in one go and ensuring all corner cases( hardly any) have been taken care of.)
- Round 5 : (HL Design)
Design a music streaming servcie like Spotify.
Questions on Database Schemas, Choice of Databases (SQL, No SQL, Object Stores), Scalability, Replication + How would you possibly fetch the actual audio content. Discussion on the "Play" API.