Company: Safe Security
Role: SDE-3
Years of Experience: 9
Interview Mode: Virtual
Result: Selected
Decision: Declined the offer
Reason: 5 days/week in-office policy and expectation of intense working hours didn't align with my work-life balance goals.

Round 1: Coding (1 hour)

• Platform: Google Docs
• Format: 1:1 interview
• Questions:
  • Medium-level Sliding Window problem
  • Medium-level Graph traversal using DFS and Cycle Detection

Round 2: System Design (1 hour)

• Question: Design YouTube
• Discussion included:
  • High-level architecture
  • Video ingestion & storage, CDN
  • API design, scalability, bottlenecks

Round 3: Hiring Manager Round (1 hour)

• Topics discussed:
  • Current project: HLD and LLD
  • Ownership and design decision-making
  • Mentorship and team collaboration

Round 4: Founder Connect (20 minutes)

• Type: Behavioral
• Sample Questions:
  • Why do you consider yourself a 10x engineer?
  • How would you rate yourself out of 10 and why?
• Focus: Personality, self-awareness, alignment with company vision