✨ My Interview Experience with Bright Money (Off-Campus, PPO 15 LPA) ✨

A few weeks back, I applied to Bright Money through LinkedIn for an off-campus opportunity. The process was intense yet insightful, and I’d love to share my journey:

Round 1 – HR Discussion (Telephonic)
A short call about my background, résumé, and past work.
✅ Cleared this round.

Round 2 – Technical (DSA, 1 hr)
Solved 2/3 problems in total.

First: a string-based problem → solved in ~4 minutes using a permutation formula with O(1) complexity.

second: another medium-to-hard problem → this one was quite layered.
Took me ~45 minutes with back-and-forth discussion with the interviewer.
The problem had around 3 layers of complexity to reach the optimal solution.
At one stage, I recalled a concept from LeetCode 1685 (Sum of Absolute Differences in a Sorted Array) which helped me optimize my approach and finally crack it.
It was quite impossible to solve that question fully on my own, but communication with the interviewer at some points helped me finally solve it
✅ Cleared this round.

Round 3 – System Design (Low + High Level, 1 hr)
thread + django basic+ DBMS (resume based)
Asked to design a system using OOP concepts.

Later optimized the design using Max Heap / Priority Queue approach.
✅ Cleared this round.

Round 4 – Hiring Manager (Technical, 1 hr)
Discussion on past projects and internship work.

Questions on Normalization (BCNF) and some Django basics from my previous work.

Low-Level Design task → explained using Class Diagrams.

At the end, asked for optimizations → I could only explain the naïve approach, but struggled with the optimal one.

Rejected from this round

Final Rounds (Not Reached)
Unfortunately, I couldn’t make it to the CTO Round , which I was really looking forward to.