Status: SDE2, BTech from NIT
Position: SDE2 at top well known MNC
Location: Bangalore, India
Date: October, 2023

Technical Onsite Round 1:

• Similar to Top K frequent Words (Solved Using Trie + Bucket Sort),
• Similar to connected components in a grid, but with a simple observation can be solved without DFS, BFS or Union Find (Solved optimally with a single matrix traversal)

Technical Onsite Round 2:

• Similar to tracking water flow in a grid (Solved it using DFS),
• There was one more follow up on the above where instead of tracking boundaries what would be the approach when starting from inner water cells.
• They were also focussing on the code quality, classes, OOPS concepts and SOLID principles.
• Project discussion also happened in the beginning of the interview.

Hiring Manager Round:

• Why you want to switch
• What are your aspirations,
• What is your strength,
• Did you get any feedback from manager,
• How did you improve that,
• Are you interested in exploring different areas (Frontend, Backend etc)
• How you usually keep yourself up to date with respect to new technologies,

Result:

• Selected