Location: London

Total 3 rounds

Initial Screeing(HM)

1. Questions on current work experience
2. Microservices architectures
3. Event driven systems
4. Few questions on scaling and error handling scenarios

scheduled next round

Coding

1. Given an m x n 2D binary grid grid which represents a map of '1's (land) and '0's (water), return the number of islands.
   Solved usign dfs

scheduled next round

System Design

Take home assignment question on design virustotal like system
Provided holistic view and deep dive of system discussing on file uploads, hashing, blob storage, db sharding, scaling, async flow in event driven architecture

Verdict: Overall feedback was okay, recruiter intially mentioned they are not considering me for Sr. Engineer but mentioned that the team might consider me for the Engineer-3 position. However, despite multiple follow-ups, I was eventually ghosted