Hi all,
Just sharing my interview experience as might be helpful to someone.

Got a mail from recruiter for interest in the SDE position early November.
Applied and recieved an OA link soon within 2-3 days.

Online Assessment:

• Two DSA questions (LC - Medium)
• Virtual office case scenario questions.
• Leadership principles questions.
  (Solved both DSA problems and others also went quite good according to me)

Recieved interview call within a week, informing that they can conduct a loop interview , upto 3 rounds each eliminatory in nature.

Interview Round 1 | DSA Round

• Two DSA questions (1 LC- Medium, 1 LC Hard)
• Some LP questions.
  The round went quite well, the interviewers were calm and interactive. I was able to solve both the questions within time, with optimal approach and explain them properly, as well narrated some incidents from my past experiences for the LP questions.

Recieved the mail for the Round 2 on that day itself, that was scheduled for the next day.

Interview Round 2 | LLD Round

• One LLD question based on LFU cache.
  This round would go down as one of the most nightmare-ish round for me (Just a personal opinion).
  Only one interviewer was present, he initially described that they would judge me based on the logical and designing skills. I was asked to replicate a popular cache design as an end to end product for a client implementing various eviction policies and DTO mappers for operational interface such as making some sort of API calls for the product, making it similar to other popular cache design patterns that are followed in Redis etc.
  I was able to figure out the logic and working for the cache in the time-space complexity needed and explained him the working, but then he started to explain me about the possibilities to implement it as a cache-manager and other things in the question. As time was running out i was asked to implement a barebone of the design for what was asked. He seemed to be satisfied with the logic and working, but the design wasn't implemented in the time completely , just a barebone for what was asked, so was pretty disappointed on myself.

It didn't go as I had expected it to be, thought it might be the end of the road, but got a call for 3rd round, somedays later.

Interview Round 3 | Bar Raiser

• Discussion on project and related research paper working in the current job.
• Various LP questions.
  The interviewer was a very senior guy at Amazon. He was pretty interactive and made me comfortable as well. I was mainly grilled on the current project I'm working on and on the related research paper on which it was focused upon. the round seemed simple but had to explain and answer his questions in-depth so was pretty challenging. One thing I liked was how the LP questions he asked was somehow made to drawn as a conclusion based on my current job and work. Overall went pretty good.

Verdict:
Got a call from recruiter a week later, was given the offer. Hope it helps. Peace.

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