• Status: Cleared all rounds (Offered)
• Experience: 4.2 years
• Role: SDE 2
• Location: Bangalore (In-person + Virtual)

Compensation

• Base Salary: ₹38L
• Signing Bonus: ₹5L (Split over 2 years)
• Performance Bonus: Not specified
• Stock/RSUs: 250 Units (Vested over 4 years)
• Total CTC (First Year): ₹44L - ₹46L

Round 1: Technical (DSA)

Verdict: Cleared

The focus was on efficient algorithms and graph theory.

• Problem 1: A variation of the "Koko Eating Bananas" problem (LC 875). Required identifying the search space for the rate of consumption and applying Binary Search on Answer.
• Problem 2: Evaluated a set of equations with variables and values. This was a direct application of LC 399 (Evaluate Division). Solved it using a Graph (DFS/BFS) approach to find paths between variables.

Round 3: High-Level Design (Bar Raiser)

Verdict: Cleared

This round was taken by a very senior engineer and focused on system resilience.

• Problem: Design a Distributed Job Scheduler.
• Key Requirements: High Availability, Durability, and exactly-once processing (or at least retry mechanisms).
• Discussion Points: * How to manage job statuses (Queued, Running, Failed, Completed).
  • Database choice for persistence (SQL vs. NoSQL).
  • Handling retries and dead-letter queues (DLQ).

Round 4: Technical (DSA & Logic)

Verdict: Cleared

• Problem 1: Given an array, find the minimum and maximum elements using the optimal number of comparisons (fewer than $2n-2$). Used the tournament method/pairing approach.
• Problem 2: A Graph problem involving a country with multiple disconnected cities. The task was to find the Minimum edges required to connect all components.
  • Approach: Found the number of "Connected Components" using Union Find (DSU). If there are $k$ components, we need $k-1$ edges.

Round 5: Low-Level Design (LLD)

Verdict: Cleared

Problem: Design a Railway Reservation System (similar to IRCTC).

• Requirements: * Define core Entities: User, Train, Station, Route, Seat, Booking.
  • Class Diagram and Relationships (One-to-Many, Many-to-Many).
  • Handling concurrency during seat booking (Pessimistic vs. Optimistic locking).
  • Implementation of the core booking logic.

Round 6: Hiring Manager & Leadership

Verdict: Cleared

Two separate rounds focused on "Techno-Managerial" aspects.

• Topics: Deep dive into my current architecture, technical ownership, and how I handle cross-team dependencies.
• Scenarios: "Tell me about a time you disagreed with a technical decision," and "How do you handle high-pressure deadlines?"

Final Thoughts & Tips

The process was a mix of in-person and virtual rounds. They value candidates who can go deep into System Design and High Availability. For LLD, ensure you can write clean, modular code on a whiteboard/paper.