Hello Everyone, Just went through GS interviews and here are the details

Round 1 — CoderPad Interview (Feb 11 · 75 min) Virtual

Started with basic intro and 2 situational questions * what would you do if your colleague takes all the credit * how will you deal with manager asks for information about project you are working but have no access

Q1 given a string of directions L,R,U,D and other characters as well but based on L,R,U,D the user starts from origin and moved along the direction return the final x,y coordinates
Q2 Given a key value pairs of child parent nodes of a tree. No child can have 2 parents. a forest is formed .find the largest node of the tree.If multiple return the smallest parent node.

Solved both of them and executed as well

Feb 13th Received an email about moving forward
After that no mail/call for a month
Received a phone call on march 11th to schedule superday for inperson
March 27th Superday (each round 45min) In-Person

Round 2 - Design and Architechure Round - 45min

Had basic introductions for 5 min and was asked to design Notification System and discussed about Kafka event flow

Round 3 - DSA - 45min

Talked about resume for 15min and was asked a question based on hashmap .Given a vehicle with capacity x. and array of arrays having details about number of passengers, borading start point , deboarding end point.Return true/false if number of passengers exceed at any point of time.

Round 4 - Resume and SDLC - 45min

Had deepdives on resume (mostly focuses on latest experience) and few behavioral questions

Received mail on sameday moving to teamfit round
April 1st - TeamFit
Round 5 - SkillSet and TeamFit Interview - 45min Virtual

Had conversation about the platform and basic behavioural questions

Awaiting for the results! Hope this helps someone prepping for GS.

Anyone know how long do they take to inform the decision?

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