Status: SDE2 at FAANG, 4.5 YOE.\nOffer Position: SSE at Linkedin\nLocation: Bangalore\nOffer Date: April 2024\n\nReached out to recuiter via linkedin regarding opening for infra team. Phone screen was scheduled on after 2  weeks as I needed some time.\n\nPhone Screen : [1Hr]\n```\nAfter formal introductions the interview started with some CS fundamental questions from networking, OS,  DBMS like Paging, Caching etc. \nAfter that I was asked one DSA questions of LC medium level from DP.\nFollow on the same question was also asked.\nOn the same day recruiter reached out telling the round was cleared and wanted availaiblity for on-sites \n```\n\nRound 1: DSA [1hr]\n```\nTwo question were asked one from two pointers and the other one was from dynamic programming. Both were of Medium difficulty.\n```\n\nRound 2: DSA [1hr]\n```\nIn this round one interviewer joined first question he asked was from trees which required concepts of DFS/BFS, later modified it to extend it for graphs and had a discussion around it but was only required to code the tree problem.\nFor the second problem it was a graph problem which was also solved using concepts of two way BFS.\nBoth questions were of Medium Level, but follow ups were Hard.\n```\n\nRound 3: HLD [1hr]\n```\nIn this round given multiple posts which are being shared by users, we need to show top  N posts in last 5 min, 1hr and 24 hr.\n```\n\nRound 4: Concurrency [1hr]\n```\nIn this one was asked to design a Blocking Queue.\nSo expectation was to given the logic and also give code for it, similar to what we do in DSA interviews.`\n```\n\nRound 5: HM [1hr]\n```\nHad a discussion around the past projects of past companies. For one of the projects was made to deep dive. Also some behavioural questions were asked\n```\n\nAfter 3 days the recuiter called telling that the overall feedback was positive.\n

Status: SDE2 at FAANG, 4.5 YOE.\nOffer Position: SSE at Linkedin\nLocation: Bangalore\nOffer Date: April 2024\n\nReached out to recuiter via linkedin regarding 