3 YOE | Interview Experience | Round 1

DSA: Asked to implement Binary Search for a key element or the immediate greater element.

Initially, the question was a bit confusing—first it sounded like they wanted key or key+1, but later clarified it should return the immediate greater element (if neither found, return -1). I adjusted my solution accordingly, and the interviewer seemed satisfied.

SQL: Asked to design Employee and Company entities and write a query to find the maximum salary in the Employee table associated with a company.

Core Concepts: Questions on Kafka and Multithreading.

The interviewer was polite and very helpful, but the problem statement felt a bit unclear at first. I never received feedback from HR afterward, even though I followed up with calls (which went unanswered).