Postman | SE-2 (Backend) | Bangalore (Remote) | Aug 2022 [Reject]
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YoE: 5+
Current Position: SSE at a Startup (Expansion phase)
Location: Chennai, India
Date: Last week of Aug 2022

Domain Knowledge round : Deep dive discussions on past experience, high-level design, Computer networks, Network security, Database related questions..
I did decent in this round and HR scheduled below 3 rounds.

Technical Knowledge round : Same as above round, but more deeper on how web works (Protocols in Application, Transport & Network layer), internal working of a database (How indexes work, different types of indexes), how to achieve security in a microservice, hashing vs encryption and again a bit deeper on system design (My work experience helped me here)
I answered almost all the questions in this round (just didn't answer 2/3 questions) and the interviewer was well satisfied

Coding round : Coding on how we save the comments for a social media platform. We can use any IDE with a DB connected to the application and we can also google so that we don't get stuck in between. Expectation is to test the APIs developed using Postman at the last.
I came up with the approach and defined data model but while coding I totally messed this round due to my inexperience in the coding language from the API side. I was not able to give a working solution at the end.

Problem Solving & Technical Case : HLD for a collaborative editor (eg. google doc) and it should support scaling
I did very well in this round and the interviewer was quite happy.

All the above rounds were of 1 hour duration.

Overall the interview experience was very good and I felt the interview process was easy (On one condition that we are well prepared for it) I didn't prepare well for coding round and screwed up the whole oppurtunity.

Thought of sharing it here so that others will get benefitted.

I'll be answering any questions in the comments sections

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