Status: B.Tech (Tier-3)
Position: SDE-1 at FAANG
Experience: 3+ years

APPLICATION

Applied on Instahyre for SDE-1 role and recruiter reached out on the same day to schedule interviews for SDE-2 role.

ROUND-1 : DSA [60 mins]

The question was wrapped in a story but the gist was - Given a list of students and each student having a list of sentences, group the students who are plagiarising the content. Plagiarism is defined as the exact match of sentence between the students. For example, the four students with sentences are - A [S1, S2, S3], B [S3, S4], C[S1], D[S5]. The answer should be two groups - [A, B, C] and [D].

The question is somewhat similar to 952 marked as LC Hard. I had solved that question earlier but wasn't able to recall the solution which I used. I coded a new approach altogether (later verified by submitting the solution on LC also, it passed all test cases). The interviewer expected to write clean working solution and test it using a few cases.

ROUND-2 : System Design [60 mins]

Design BookMyShow.

The expectation was to come up with appropriate HLD, API Design, Database, etc. and dive deep into the potential edge cases such as handling spurious load, prevention of double booking, quick search, etc.

ROUND-3 : Hiring Manager [40 mins]

Typical questions about past experience, reason to switch, etc. Offer was given during the call itself and last 10 mins were used for discussion on compensation.

Overall, the interview process was a cakewalk. Entire process was completed in 2 weeks from application to offer and the recruiter was well-spoken.

Compensation: https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/5872189/Blinkit-Offer