BTech : Tier-3 college
YOE : 2.5+ years
Previous experience : Software engineer at product-based org.
How I applied: Recruiter reached out to me on Linkedin and shared me the job link to apply.
Round 1: HackerRank Test
HackerRank Online Assessment test of 90 minutes, with 2 DSA questions (LC-Easy and LC-Medium) to solve. I have coded both the questions.
After round 1, a different recruiter reached out to me, And scheduled a coderpad interview.
Round 2: CoderPad Virtual Interview
Virtual interview of 1 hour, interviewer asked me 2 DSA questions. both questions was leetcode medium level, solved both.
1:https://leetcode.com/problems/find-first-and-last-position-of-element-in-sorted-array/description/
2: Not on LC, solved using the heap
Got the call next day from the recruiter, that i got selected for the super day (3 interviews in a single day).
Round 3: DSA Round (Solved Both)
This is a 1 hour long interview.
Question1: https://leetcode.com/problems/container-with-most-water/description/
Question 2: Take, No Take Dp variation
Round-4: DSA + JAVA CORE QUESTIONS + Kafka
1: (HASHTABLE vs HASHMAP vs CONCURRENT HASHMAP) Tradeoffs and Advantages
2: Concurrency (Optimistic vs Pessimistic):--- Recommendation: Watch Shreyansh Jain Video on Youtube
- Kafka Internals (Advantages and Disadvantages over RabbitMQ)
4: Find the longest increasing or decreasing subarray. (EASY)
Round-5: OOPs + Java Internals + LLD + HLD + CN
The interview was scheduled for 1 hour but extended to 1 hr 30 mins.
- Started with OOPs based questions.
- Asked the whole process of how we deployed the code on cloud. (Step by Step: how java compiles, what is the role of maven, jar vs war, JVM vs JDK vs JRE vs JIT, CI/CD pipleines steps)
- Implement an algorithm so that user won't be able to asked the otp for resetting the password more than 3 times in last 5 minutes. (Rate Limiter)
- HTTP vs HTTPS , TCP vs UDP
- Some HLD question where you will implement this Rate Limiter Algorithm (CDN, Gateway, Load Balancers)
Round-6: TechnoManagerial Round
Starts with introduction.
Brief discussion about my current company, projects, architecture, my contributions etc.
Mostly questions were from the points or skills mentioned in resume.
Verdict: Selected
I got the offer letter after 3 weeks and have accepted the offer
Compensation Details: https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/6209412/Goldman-Sachs-SDE-2-vs-Flipkart-SDE-2
Interview Experience - Flipkart: https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/6209449/Flipkart-or-SDE-2-or-Bangalore-or-Dec-2024