Status: 5 years of Experience in product based startups
Position: Backend Developer
Location: Bengaluru
Date: February 2024
Applied from the website at zerodha fund house careers. Asked for a referral as well from someone. HR contacted me for the role and explained me the interview process. The first three rounds were very important as mentioned by the HR.
Interview Rounds
- Resume/Technical Discussion Round (Important)
- Coding/ DSA round (important)
- System Design (important)
- Behavioural round
Resume/Technical Discussion Round [45 mins]
This rounds was scheduled with the CTO of the company. I was told this will only be of project discussions and whatever is listed on the resume.
The interviewer asked me about my introductions, what you know about Zerodha, projects and some technical questions about golang, databases, nosql vs sql, which one to choose on which use cases and why.
This went on for around 30 mins. Then the below DSA question was asked in google docs.
I gave a linear solution but couldn't figured out it was a DP Hard problem and that too only 15 mins was given.
The interview ended at 50th min.
Result: Ghosted
Remarks:
- Expect hard problems at every round and prepare for them with less time.