I recently appeared for DE Shaw MTS Interview and below I am posting my interview experience.
There were total 1 OA and 3 Rounds.
I do not remember the questions I was asked on my OA but There were also MCQ's around CS fundamentals.
Profile :
BTech CS Tier-1 [2023 Graduate]
Work ex : 10 months [Startup]
Below I am posting the questions i was asked in the interview along with my experiences
1st round :
Was scheduled after 3-4 weeks of my OA. The first time, the interviewer didn't show up.
2nd round
Was scheduled after almost 2 weeks of Round 1
3rd round [Hiring Manager] : the toughtest round so far.
scheduled after 1 week of Round 2.
Other questions
These were asked by the Hiring Manager
I had mentioned that in my current org I was working with distributed systems and we heavily used kafka. There were questions arond concurrency and threads and some questions around kafka (only basic questions)
I was asked about Producer Consumer problem, how we can signal from one thread to other. Asked to write how would I implement locks in a producer consumer problem etc.
I had mentioned that in my current company I worked on java, there were questions around why a particular framework was chosen etc.
Also the manager wanted to know why I wanted to switch my current company.
There were 2 interviews one Senior Engineer and the other Manager.
I got the rejection mail 2 weeks after appearing for the Hiring Manager Round.