Kotak | SDE 1 | Bengaluru | April 2024 | Offer
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Experience ~ 2 years at PBC
Offer: 25-30% hike on current CTC.

Interviews:

Round1 : Bar Raiser Round : 90 mins

The round was divided into three parts: LLD, DSA and Distributed Systems

**DSA**
https://leetcode.com/problems/best-time-to-buy-and-sell-stock/description/

**LLD**
Design an e-commerce application where there can be users who can buy products and sell products.
Expected : Coding was expected with class diagrams, api designs and database schema

**Distributed Systems**:
Various Locks in Java
Various concepts of Java

Overall this round was of medium level difficulty.

The recruiter reached out to me after 3 to 4 days and said the feedback was positive and wanted to schedule the next round.

Round II: DSA : 60 mins

The interviewer came and asked for introduction and said there will be two questions, for which you need to explain the optimistic approach and code it down.

https://leetcode.com/problems/h-index/
For the above problem I was not able to code the optimize approach which is in O(n) 
rather I told him, the O(nlogn) approach which was more intuitive.

https://leetcode.com/problems/candy/
For this I coded the most optimal approach which is using prefix and suffix array.

The recruiter reached to me on the next day that for the previous round the feedback was positive and they want to conduct one more round of DSA.

Round III: DSA : 60 mins

The interviewer came and asked for introduction and said there will be two questions, for which you need to explain the optimistic approach and code it down.

https://leetcode.com/problems/course-schedule-ii/description/

https://leetcode.com/problems/rotting-oranges/

After two days I got the feedback from recruiter as positive and he wanted to move ahead with extending an offer.

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