YOE : 2.8
Currenlty : SDE-1 At a Product Based Startup
How Did I get interview Call? - Recruiter shared email on a LinkedIn Post and asked to email resume.
Round 1-
OA
1 Hard Graph Problem
1 Medium Problem
Don't remember the Exact Questions
Round 2- 60 Mins
Basic Intro around the work I do.
Question 1 -
https://leetcode.com/problems/group-anagrams/description/
Question 2 -
https://leetcode.com/problems/capacity-to-ship-packages-within-d-days/
Solved Both Questions with Brute to most optimal solution
Self Verdict : Strong
Round 3 - 60 Mins
Question - 1
https://leetcode.com/problems/merge-k-sorted-lists/
Question - 2
https://leetcode.com/problems/daily-temperatures/
Solved Both Questions with brute to most optimal solution
Self Verdict : Strong
Round 4 - 60 Mins
Question - 1
https://leetcode.com/problems/best-time-to-buy-and-sell-stock/description/
Question - 2
https://leetcode.com/problems/largest-rectangle-in-histogram/description/
Solved both questions, Q-1 done with optimal solution, Q2 with Brute Force, was not able to think of the most optimal solution.
All rounds are eliminaiton rounds
All questions were popular Leetcode Medium/Hard Problems.
LC Stats = ~800
Round 5 - Hiring Manager
Duration - 60 Mins
Interviwer was Director at DP World.
Interview started around with the work I do.
Questions like - Why Switch?
Why left the first company in 6-7 Monhts? (Mass Layoffs btw)
I explained the work I do. (Wasn't very convincing, need to selll better)
Situational -
You and your teammate are workinng on a project with strong deadlines.What would you do If your teammate is not doing anything, he straight up refuses to do any work? What will you do?
Interviwe was like 60-65% techincal, rest standard HM questions.
Java Spring Boot questions.
What is Autowired?
@Component?
What if we don't use @Component?
Comparing Objects in java.
Starting a project from sratch and writing a spring boot API.
Asked me if i know multithreading?
Then asked me to write a program to print 1 - 100 with 2 threads.
Some More questions about Java Spring Boot.
Verdict : Rejected in HM Round