Target Interview Experience | Backend Engineer-L4 | Septemper 2025
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Recruiter reached out in LinkedIn

Online Assesment:

  1. Simple looping and if-else question.
  2. in range of L-R find number divisible by sqrt(n) (Stack based solution)
  3. variation of minDistance string (DP based solution)

Techincal Interview Round 1 (60 mins)

  1. This round had a DSA question on zig-zag traversal of binary tree.
  2. One quick system design for an E-commerece site (not much discussion apart from the design explanation)
  3. Theoritical questions on SOLID principles, CAP theorem Java upgrade from 8 to 17,
  4. How you would sort all the Strings starting with char c int a List strList using only Java streams.

Techincal Interview Round 2 (60 mins)

Pure System Design Round

  1. Design a Personalized Promotion System (Gather all requirements and finally provide the rough API contracts, DB used and why and sample DB contracts)

This round got a bit extended by 10 mins due to continued discussion

Hiring Manager Round (45 mins)

  1. High Level Project Overview for the current Organization
  2. Multiple STAR based questions
  3. RDBMS vs NoSQL
  4. Exposure to AI
  5. Contributions/Responsibility to the present team.
  6. Current Comp details.

Final Verdict: Selected
Approx timeline for entire process : 25 days

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