Earlier this post got viral - https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/939261/DE-Shaw-or-India-or-Nov-2020
I AM REWRITING SINCE EARLIER GOT PULLED DOWN BY LEETCODE/DESHAW, SHAME ON YOU DESHAW
Fresher 2020 passout, BE in Computer Science from Tier 2 college.
Applied at De Shaw careers site, got hackerrank test link, solved both of the questions.
1 - search in sorted 2d matrix
2 - is a subtree
3 - some mcqs on CS topics
Had a screening round, my camera was off, he asked simple coding questions
1 - mirror tree
2 - greedy scheduling problem
3 - kth largest element in a BST
4 - CS concepts of paging, cache, ACID properties, OOPs
Final 4 rounds interview was scheduled:
1 - Interviewer shocked to see I am a boy instead of a girl, as he asked me where is the interviewee, I said I am, he said your name appears to be girlish.
He asked me inherently tough questions like DP with bit masking, some alien probability questions and deep concepts of Java even telling him that I am more comfortable in C++.
2 - The first question of interviewer was if I used a fake name on my resume. He talked in a joking tone, funny ambiguous manner, staring at me with big bad eyesight. He asked me to talk about myself and kept going on and on, did not even asked a single technical question, just random stuff, my hobbies, my plans etc
3 - hr called me the interviews are over for the day, they will contact me back
20 days, no updates form the hr, have mailed, called her so many times.
This is seriously a sick mentality DESHAW INDIA, not at all expected from you
DE SHAW INDIA IS BIASED , AND I AM OKAY WITH IT BUT THEY SHOULD TELL THAT THEY ARE NOT LOOKING FOR MALE CANDIDATES CLEARLY AS DONE BY ADOBE AND AMAZON, SO BASICALLLY DE SHAW INDIA SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF ITSELF
I AM HAPPY WITH SUCH THINGS WHERE THEY MENTION SO THAT WE DONT WASTE OR PRECIOUS TIME, EXAMPLE: - DE SHAW INDIA ASCEND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM ON THEIR LINKEDIN PAGE
AND TO SO CALLED FEMINISTS WHO SAY I AM FAKING, MY CAMERA WAS OFF AND HE WAS TOTALLY OKAY WITH IT, AS I TOLD HIM MY NET IS NOT WORKING GOOD.
THE SO CALLED VOICE STIGMA AND PITCH SHIT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, MIGHT BE THE FIRST INTERVIEW WAS NOT CONCERNED WHETHER I WAS A BOY OR A GIRL, MAY BE IT ALL STARTED WHEN THEY REALISED THEY ONLY WANT TO GICE THIS ROLE TO A GIRL