About Me:
Education: B.Tech in Computer Science (Tier-2 College)

Current Role: SDE-1 at a major startup

Experience: 1.2 years of full-time backend development experience

Application:

HR reached out to me through my Naukri profile

Round 1 – Online Test (HackerRank):

Duration: 60 minutes

2 coding questions of medium difficulty (don’t remember the exact questions)

Round 2 – Technical Round 1 (Java + DSA):

• Asked to write Java code for deadlock scenario

• Questions on Design Patterns (Mostly on Strategy pattern)

• 1 DSA problem: Number of Good Binary Strings

Round 3 – Technical Round 2 (Backend + DSA):

• Deep dive questions on Kafka

• 1 DSA problem: Minimum Value to Get Positive Step by Step Sum

• Questions based on my past work experience

After this, I got the confirmation that I’m shortlisted for the HR round.

HR mentioned that salary discussion and other formalities will happen in this round.