**YOE 6+\nCurrently Laid off from last org.\nStarted focused preparation in May 2024\n**\n\nIt was an in-person hiring drive, all rounds of interview were conducted in a single day. I got in via a referral.\n\n**Round-1:** | Duration: 1hr15mins | Pen and Paper | In-person\n\nGeneral introduction followed by two questions on System Design basics followed by two DSA questions\n\n```\nTwo System design questions\n1. What is Database Indexing?\n2. What is Consistent hashing?\n```\n\nDSA questions:\n1. https://leetcode.com/problems/max-chunks-to-make-sorted/description/\n2. Modified version of https://leetcode.com/problems/number-of-islands/description/ \n\n*Verdict:* **Strong Hire**\n\n\n**Round-2:** LLD | Duration: 1hr15mins | Pen and Paper | In-person\nDetailed discussion on LLD involved in my current work experience followed by an LLD question\n\n```\nDesign LLD for Employee Roaster management system - usecase similar to Pagerduty. \n```\n\n*Verdict:* **Strong Hire**\n\n\n**Round-3:** Duration: 1hr30mins | Whiteboard | In-person\n\n- Started with a Trie based DSA question, only the approach and psuedo code was expected\n- Followed by an LLD question on File management system, interviewer had me write all clases on paper and discussed how would I handle multiple threads in such a scenario.\n- Followed by a puzzle, Given a four-wheeler vehicle, which has 4 tyres and a spare tyre, each tyre is functional only for 20kms, what is the maximum kms the car can cover given we can swap tyres.\n- Given the paucity of time, interviewer asked questions about some system design fundamentals\n```\n\n1. Explain CAP theorem\n2. Given a particular data set, what are the parameters you would consider to decide which DB to use, the options I had were SQL, Mongo, Cassandra, if the answer was Cassandra, interviewer wanted me to justify\n```\n\nI was exhausted by that time and 3rd round was more of a stress interview with all concepts getting covered with lot of context switching. I fumbled in the LLD question, but was able to justify my choices for System design questions.\n\n*Verdict:* **Neutral**\n\nNo HIRE call on the day of drive, a week later recruiter scheduled a hiring manager round.\n\n*Round-4:* Hiring manager + HLD | Duration 1hr | Virtual\n\nIn the initial 30 minutes of the interview, the interviewer delved into my current company\u2019s system design. They expected me to sketch it out on a Google whiteboard.\nNext 30 minutes, the discussion was around how would I design a distributed logging system and connect it to the above design.\n\n*Verdict:* **Strong Hire**\n\n*HR-round:* Virtual | 30mins \n\nDetailed overlay of what are Freshworks values and what are the responsibilites and expectations. There were some questions on why Freshworks etc.\n\nMy preparation strategy - https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/5666847/Microsoft-or-L62-or-Hyderabad-or-Jul-2024-Offer

YOE 6+\nCurrently Laid off from last org.\nStarted focused preparation in May 2024\n\n\nIt was an in-person hiring drive, all rounds of interview were conducted