Previously: Power Programmer at Infosys.

Experience: 3 Years 1 month

Sharing my Past 3 months job switch journey:

1. UKG
   Interview Exp:
   1st round
   Coding round - 2 Coding question, 1 Git problem
   Difficulty: 7/10
   2nd round
   Tech Round: Question based on OOPs, Java, Java 8 streams, 1 DSA question, microservices, Design Patterns, Authentication,
   Difficulty: Medium (7/10)

   Upcoming rounds Onsite: Face to face ( Back to back without any gap)
   3rd round with Technical Architect
   Tech Round: Questions Based on Core Java, OOPs very detailed questions with different scenarios, How to make class immutable.
   (multiple follow up questions)
   One DSA Question: Easy
   Question on design patterns

   Difficulty: Very hard (9/10)

   4th Round ( Techno-managerial round)
   Resume Drilled. What and why of every thing.
   Comparison between Kafka and Messaging queues
   Spring boot internal working and classes
   Difficulty: Hard (8.5/10)

Hr Discussion On Salary and typical HR Questions.

Verdict Selected, (Offered 2X as CTC)

2. NielsenIQ
   Recruiter reached out. Scheduled Interview:
   Round 1 Technical round
   Asked 2 DSA questions (Medium).
   Solved 1st question. Used a wrong approach in 2nd. tried to do it with stack in O(N) , later I explained the correct approach (n Log(n)) but interviewer said it's ok no need to write logic)
   Difficulty: Medium (7/10)

Verdict: Rejected;

3. Sigmoid
   Got a call from consultancy, Interview scheduled.

1st round Consultancy screening round before proceeding my application to Sigmoid.
Shared a pair programming editor. Asked question from 5 topics:
Java, SQL, Cloud, Microservices, Design
Asked on DSA, One Low level Design question
Basic OOPs, and normal cloud and microservices question.

Difficulty: Medium (7/10)

2nd round Technical Round with Sigmoid
2 DSA Question: Leetcode Medium

Difficulty: Easy (6/10)

3rd round Managerial Round
Talked about Project
Kafka
Scenario Based question to approach related to Database details

Difficulty: Medium ( 7/10)

4th Round Technical Round with Architect
Questions on Java, Spring boot, Design Patterns
One DSA Question related to Array (LC Medium)
SQL -> Join three table to get some data

Difficulty: Medium (7.5/10)

5th Round HR Round
Intro
Expectations
Basic HR questions.

Verdict: Selected ( 2.2X as CTC)

4. Freecharge

1st Round
Intro, Current Project Structure, Microservices
Rest Template, Kafka, Their comparison
Deep dive in Kafka
DSA: 2 questions Medium
Hashmap Internal Working

Difficulty: Medium Hard(8/10)

2nd Round
Intro, Current Project Structure, Microservices
Design Patterns and Follow up Questions.
multithreading.
Write a controller class, SQL Queries, Application Security

Verdict: Rejected. (Need to work on Multithreading)

5. PayU:

3 Rounds:
**1st Round: ** DSA Round. 2 questions: Leetcode Medium-hard
2nd Round: Design Round: Low Level Design of a given problem statement. Need to make entities and service classes
3rd Round: Tech-Managerial: Resume Drilled, SQL questions, Microservices, Design Question for a Problem statement (database design)

**Verdict: Selected (Offered 2.3X as CTC)
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6. Licious

3 rounds:
1st round
Design Round: User management API
Some basic questions on Microservices

2nd Round
Design Round:
Given Problem Statement Need to Design Entities
Project Related questions

HR Round
Stereotype HR questions
Expectations

Verdict Selected (Offered 1.4X CTC) Rejected the offer ( Already Had better offers)

7. Paytm

Virtual Drive
2 rounds
1st round: DSA Question, Then asked about projects, Cloud, Microservices, Deployments
2nd round: Design Round, and project and resume drilled

Verdict Selected (Offered 1.3X as Fixed, even after earlier agreement of 2.4X as Fixed) ( Didn't proceed ahead)

8. Wissen
3 rounds

1st Round: 3 qeustions, 2 DSA or problem solving (Easy, Medium), 1 SQL (Medium Hard)

2nd Round: Technical round, Java, Spring boot, microservices, Design Patterns, Concurrent Hashmaps and its internal working.

3rd round: 2 DSA (1 easy, 1 medium-hard), Hashmap worst complexity, Current Project. Interviewer was quite happy, and had positive feedback.

Verdict: Positive. (Offered 2.5x as Fixed)

There were many other companies I had interviewed for and cleared. ( Vlink, PersonifyHealth (Virgin Pulse), StatusNeo, Accenture, xcube labs, Turing, Wolken Software).

In last two days before joining new company I got some overwhelming response from market (More than 3X).

This was my overall experience in last 3 months of notice period.