Education: Bachelor\'s from a tier-1 university in India\nYears of Experience: 2.2\nPrior Experience: Product Based - FAANG\nCompany: Cred\n\n**Interview Experience**\n\n**Round 1**: Recruiter Call | 30 minutes \nGeneral discussion regarding previous experiences/projects, why cred?, why leaving the current company? etc.\n\n**Round 2**: Machine Coding round | LLD | Medium-Hard | 2.5 hours\nGiven a wide open ended problem statement and a boilerplate code-base with 50 unit tests. I had to implement 2 public methods related to payment recommendation systems. Standard sorting/BST based algorithm with custom comparator. Was able to pass all unit tests on the hackerank platform. Focus was given on correctness, clean, modular, testable code with suitable design patterns.\n\n**Round 3.1**: Data structures & algorithm | Easy-Medium | 45-minutes  \nStandard leetcode medium problem. Was asked to write the code in google doc and make it clean, modular & testable.\n\n**Round 3.2**: Higher Level Design | 45-minutes | Hard\nDesign a file sharing system similar to google drive. Drawio wasn\'t working for me so I used a whiteboard. Discussion around architecture choice, data-base entities, APIs, optimization, concurrency & scalability. \n\n**Round 4**:  Hiring Manager | Medium-Hard | 1.5 hours\n\n**Verdict**: Offer Call with Recruiter & Manager.\n\n**Compensation**: https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/2572479/Cred-or-SDE-II-or-Backend-or-Bangalore \n\nAll the best!\n

Education: Bachelor\'s from a tier-1 university in India\nYears of Experience: 2.2\nPrior Experience: Product Based - FAANG\nCompany: Cred\n\nInterview Experien