Experience - 2.5 years, Currently pursuing MS in CS in top 50 school
Recruiter reached out to me a month after the online application and had a brief call to see if I am interested and would I be a good fit.
Round 1 - Phone Screen (30 mins)
- Behavioral + Technical questions based on my resume
- Straight forward interview, cleared it easily and was scheduled for next round soon
Round 2 - Technical Interview (1 hr)
- Questions from my resume & project (explain 1 project)
- System Design -> Design streaming service (25 mins)
- Coding Quesion -> Some tree based question (used recurrsion) (25 mins)
- Cleared the round and was scheduled for virtual onsite after 2 weeks
Round 3 - Onsite Interview I (45 mins)
- Questions from my resume
- Coding Question -> https://leetcode.com/problems/group-anagrams/
- Did okay! solved the question but not in an optimized way
Round 4 - Onsite Interview II (45 mins)
- Very vague interview and interviewer was having lunch while asking questions
- Grilled me on Java and web applications
- I bielieve this interview was the main reason for rejection
Round 5 - Onsite Interview III (45 mins)
- Again a vague interview
- Grilled me on loggers, JVM, Java architechture, masking, etc.
- Asked me to use google search to find techniques/solutions for open ended questions
- Describe project in detail
- Questions based on internship
Round 6 - Onsite Interview IV (45 mins)
- Interviewer briefed me about various projects in the team
- Coding question -> https://leetcode.com/problems/top-k-frequent-words/
- Solved the question, might not have been the best solution but better than brute force
I felt that I was not up to the mark during the virtual onsite interviews and have only myself to blame for not doing well. Got rejection mail in a week. Missed out on a good opportunity :(
Any suggestions on what should I work to improve my interviewing skills? I somehow scramble in the inteviews inspite of the fact that I know the solution to those problems.