**Phone Screen - Modified LRU Cache**\n- Implemented a working solution using map + pair data structure.\n\n**Coding Round 1 [Hire] - Word Search in a List of Documents**\n- Implemented a working solution using an inverted index.\n\n**Coding Round 2 [No Hire] - Valid Sudoku**\n- Implemented a working solution and clarified how duplicate code could be removed if I had more time. However, the interviewer gave a no-hire recommendation because they felt I shouldn\'t have written duplicate code in the first place.\n\n**Design [Hire] - Movie Ticketing Platform**\n- Defined requirements, high-level design (HLD), APIs, database schema, concurrency issues, handling spikes, caching, async processes, and global design.\n\n**Values Round [Hire] - Generic Behavioral Questions**\n- Questions influenced by Confluent\'s values and Leadership Principles.\n\n**Overall Experience**\n- All interviewers were very helpful, except the one in coding round 1. There was very limited communication from the interviewer\'s end.\n\n**Result**\n- No offer was extended for the SSE position due to a no-hire decision in coding round 1. They were willing to downlevel, but could not match my current total compensation (TC) for that level.\n

Phone Screen - Modified LRU Cache\n- Implemented a working solution using map + pair data structure.\n\nCoding Round 1 [Hire] - Word Search in a List of Documen