Salary expectation set with HR - 35 lakhs base + bonus = ~40LPA CTC
YOE: 2.5
For Round 1:
The interview consisted of 4 parts:

1. Introduction
2. Project discussion
3. DSA easy-medium question: https://leetcode.com/problems/asteroid-collision/description/
4. CS Fundamental questions[ Deep dive into Authentication, databases, Shallow copy vs Deep Copy, CAP Theorem, Bloom filter]

I got a call the next day with positive feedback.

The HR told me that R2 would be LLD+HLD. After few days I received a call to schedule R2.
I had prepared some classic topics like URL Shortner, Booking system, Tiktok design. But instead the interview initially head in the direction of working of Kafka and Redis internals.
For Round 2:

• Why Kafka is so fast? What part of the architecture it makes it so fast?
• How does the deletion mechanism works in Redis? Like how does redis know it has to delete the data at the expiry time set by us?
• Next he discussed about the projects I had done, discussed their architecture.
• And after that some questions on Python - decorators, generators, mutiprocessing, aynchronous programming, multithreading.

Unfortunately, I didn't get shortlisted for the further process.

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