July-Sept 2024
Experience: 6 Years
Education: BTech NIT
Prior Experience: MNC
Exploratory Round with Director (30 Mins): Discussion Around past projects, current Tech stack. It was more around judgement of alignement towards the team.
Coderpad Round :
https://leetcode.com/problems/word-break
https://leetcode.com/problems/trapping-rain-water
Was able to code working solutions for both.
Super Day: 2 Rounds on the same day
Round 1
Round 2
Questions around Threadpool, Callable vs Runnable Microservice vs monolith architecture
LLD Snake and Ladder
Few days later got the invite for Next round.
LLD: Low Level Design for Parking lot management system. Some questions around message queues, Spring vs Spring boot. In depth discussion on current projects.
Couple of days later got the invite for Hiring Manager Round
HM Round: Design a notification service. In depth discussion around DB choice, how to handle offline user scenarios for notications. Questions around current Projects.
Verdict: Selected
Overall process took ~50 days since the first Exploratory call.
Compensation Details: https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/5752010/Goldman-Sachs-or-VP-or-Bangalore