Background:
5+ YoE working @ investment bank
Round 1: LLD Round (Interviewvector)
Ques: Design Online book reader (Kindle)
Covered all FR, NFR, Classes, DB schema, API Design and Design Patterns
Interview experience: Panel was easy going, asked some good questions, I was able to answer all
Feedback: Positive
Round 2: HLD Round (Interviewvector)
Ques: Design Streaming service similar to Twitch
Discussed about FR, NFR, Estimation, High level Microservice, Database architecture
Interview experience: Panel was bad at communication but we managed. I was able to answer all follow up questions/deep dives.
Feedback: Positive
Round 3: HLD Round (Zepto EM)
Ques: Design Inventory Management System (for say KFC/McD)
Discussed about FR, NFR, Estimation, Core API's, High level Microservice, Database architecture
Interview experience: Good panel, asked some questions on concurrency, transactions & locks. Did some deep dive on MongoDB internal working. He was looking for specific jargons.
Feedback: Positive
Round 4: Hiring Manager Round (Zepto head of eng)
Interview experience: Panel was arrogant and unresponsive so it was hard to have a two way communication. He was nodding his head at times so I had to be happy with that. Interview went well, answered everything, yet got rejected.
Feedback: Rejected