🗓️ Timeline

• Application Submitted: Through Referral from Friend.
• Interview Rounds: 2
• Final Outcome: Rejected

📜 Background

• Current role at Société Générale as a Software Engineer
• College : Tier-II
• Years of experience and tech stack: 2.5 Yrs in Java Backend.
• Salary Expected: 25 LPA

Recruiter called me and scheduled F2F interview.

🧠 Round-Wise Breakdown

🧪 Technical Interview 1:

• Focus Areas:
• DSA, LLD, Resume Based, Questions related to current project.
• Questions Discussed:
• https://leetcode.com/problems/remove-k-digits/description/
• https://leetcode.com/problems/find-bottom-left-tree-value/description/

Thoughts: Discussed Brute force approach for the first question but couldn't optimize it. Solved the the second questions optimally.

🧪 Technical Interview 2:

• Do a LLD of a Shopping cart with differnt discount coupons available on both at item level and cart level.
• Thoughts: This round went quite well i was able to come up with a good design for the cart on the whiteboard.

🙌 Final Thoughts: Overall a good learning experience, Interviewers were quite nice. There was a third HLD round as well which was not taken as i couldn't clear first two rounds.

Also Read: https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/6954860/target-interview-experience-software-eng-qlo6/