Internship to Full-Time @ AiDash – My Interview Experience
📍 Location Preference: Bangalore / Gurgaon
🏢 Work Mode: Hybrid
✅ Verdict: Selected! But Took SDE-1 Role in my Current Company
💼 Internship Details:
- Duration: 6 months
- Stipend: ₹50,000/month
- CTC (Post-Conversion): ₹16–24 LPA (Base: ₹16 LPA guaranteed)
🎯 I received a direct interview call through a referral from an SDE-2 at AiDash. What followed was a well-structured and technically enriching interview process.
🔍 Round 1: Technical Interview
🕐 Duration: 1 Hour
- Quick introduction
- Solved a medium-level DSA question (LeetCode/GFG level)
- Shown 2 tables and asked to write SQL queries based on practical scenarios
🔍 Round 2: Technical Interview
🕐 Duration: 45 Minutes
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Introduction to assess communication clarity
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Another medium-level DSA question
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SQL Query Task: Find the second highest salary
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Also covered core CS fundamentals:
- DBMS concepts
- Indexing
- Time/Space complexity
- System design basics
👨💼 Round 3: Managerial Interview – Project Manager
- Deep-dive into my internship and key project
- Questions on backend system design and architecture
- Discussion on ETL patterns and their real-world applications
👨💼 Round 4: Managerial Interview – Senior Project Manager
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Another deep-dive into internship work to validate consistency
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Behavioral + Technical blend:
- Why the switch from my current company?
- Why AiDash?
- Most challenging situation during internship & how I tackled it
- Recently learned tech stack/tools and how I applied them
💡 Final Thoughts:
The process was thorough and focused not just on problem-solving but also on real-world development, project understanding, and decision-making skills. Every round tested both technical depth and communication clarity.
Extremely thankful to the SDE-2 who referred me and excited for what lies ahead at AiDash! 💻🌱
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