I applied for new grad SDE 2020 in august 2019

1. I got may Debugging round in mid of October:
   • There were 7 debugging questions in java. (I got all of them correct)
2. Got my part 2 after a day which had 2 question easy and medium leetcode:
   • Two sum
   • Deep copy
   I got all correct and got my mail for round three 24 hours later
3. Round Three
   • 3 hours Work simulation and after that a quant test of 20 or 24 question (cant remember).
   Work simulation is about how you prioritize the tasks, you will be given the office like feel. You will get emails from manager and colleagues about a given task. Yow will be asked to respond using multiple choices.
   I got mail that I have cleared the round 3 and got selected for final interview.

Final video interview which had 3 rounds (I got my final interview on 18th feb 2020 I wasn’t even having any hope as I have waited for more than 3 months)

• Round 1: Started with behavior
Question1: Tell me about the time when you did anything out of your comfort zone? With the follow up: what did you learn from that?
Question2: Anything you learned outside of the work environment and then applied to your work?
Coding Question: Given two string in the format “minutes : seconds” example 1:24 and 0:59 add these two and return the answer in same format. With the follow up of what if we have the hours also included like “hours:minutes:seconds”.

• Round2:
Question1: tell me about the time when you have taken a decision on your own. How did it come out? Interviewer asked a lot of details about the task, decision and impacts.
Coding Question: you are given the start and end associated with a tag in form of list and a string. Put these tags in xml format
Example: tags = [[“0”, “3”, “a”], [“4”,”7”, “b”], [“5”, “10”, “c”] and string = “Hello world”
You need to output “[a]hell[/a][b]o[c] wo[/b][c]rld[/c]”.
Follow up:
What if multiple tags can start from same position and may end at same position? Example tags = [[“0”, “7”, “a”], [“4”,”7”, “b”], [“4”, “10”, “c”]

• Round3:
Question1: Tell me a situation where you have to work under the strict deadline?
Follow up: What extra efforts you made for that task?
Follow up: How would have you had made that work better?
Coding Question: Lowest common Ancestor in a binary tree? What is the time and space complexity of your solution?

What went Wrong : I think I messed up the behavioral question, Tell me about the time when you have taken a decision on your own.
My Answer for that: when I was working for xyz company, after the deployment of “abc” feature later that night I found some bug in that. So, I redeployed that without taking the managers approval, the things work fine after that.
Then he further drilled me….like what was the impact, how do you figure out the solution? What was your team reaction, what was your manager reaction? We discussed this for about 20 minutes.
I told him the truth the manger and team were fine as that was not a critical issue.
He took a lot of note on that I hear him typing….
Apart from that I was able to do all the coding questions.