Status: 2.5 YOE at a service based company in India
Date: Nov 2020

How I applied: Messaged a recruiter on LinkedIn.

Online assessment on hackerrank (120 + 15 mins):

• https://leetcode.com/problems/reorder-data-in-log-files/
• A BFS based question, start position and end position of robot is given in a matrix. Find the smallest distance between start and end provided there are obstacles on some paths.
• 15 mins of workstyle assessment.

Received an email next day that the result of my OA was inconclusive, so I will have to give a telephonic interview.

Telephonic Round with SDE (30 mins):

• Questions on leadership principles.
• https://leetcode.com/problems/two-sum/-
• https://leetcode.com/problems/number-of-islands/

Virtual Onsite 1 with SDE (60 mins)

• Questions on leadership principles
• https://leetcode.com/problems/product-of-array-except-self/
• https://leetcode.com/problems/binary-tree-zigzag-level-order-traversal/

Virtual Onsite 2 with SDM (60 mins)

• Leadership principles
• Implement minesweeper game. Major portion of 1 hour spent on implementing the method when user clicks on a cell then return the next state of board.

Virtual Onsite 3 with SDE (60 mins)

• leadership principles
• Similar to this: https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-path-sum/ instead of minimum, find maximum path sum.
• Top view of binary tree

Virtual Onsite 4 with SDM (60 mins)

• Lot of questins on leadership principles.
• minimum-number-platforms-required-railwaybus-station
• https://leetcode.com/problems/rotting-oranges/
• More questions on work experience, leadership principles.

Received an email on next working day about the selection