Navi | SDE-2 | Bangalore | Nov'23 | Reject

Status: 2+ YoE
Position: SDE-1 at a major product based startup
Location: Bengaluru
Date: November, 2023

Contacted recruiter via LinkedIn. Got my first round scheduled (No Online Assessment).


Round 1: DSA/Problem Solving Interview - 1 hr
Verdict: Pass

Keypad system
Given the numbers typed in a keypad phone, print all the possible string output that it can generate
Sample Input : 2234
Output - aadg,bdg
Consider this to be an advanced version of https://leetcode.com/problems/letter-combinations-of-a-phone-number/


Round 2: System Design Round - 1 hr
Verdict: Reject

Design IRCTC's ticket booking functionality. HLD, LLD, and algorithms for figuring out ticket booking was expected.
The interviewer pretty much wanted the solution available in this (1hr) video:
I had not seen this before.

The interview experience was terrible. The interviewer lacked human nature. The video was turned off since the starting, hardly any introduction, and all answers were monotonous and robotic.
There was no clear guidance on what he wanted me to explain, and just a bunch of okays throughout the interview.


I'll never interview at Navi again, nor would advice anyone to do so.
The recruiter kept talking about how they've reduced budgets and can't afford to pay good salaries anymore even before hearing about my expectations. Following up was a pain, the recruiter neither picked up her phone, nor replied to emails.
After the System Design round, I got the response 2 weeks after being absolutely ghosted.

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