date - april 2026

zeta came on campus to hire for sde interns (6m), first was an online assessment. ppl who cleared it were shortlisted for offline interviews

in office interviews

round 1 - dsa (very easy)

q1 -> delete node in a linked list
link - leetcode.com/problems/delete-node-in-a-linked-list

q2 -> tribonacci sequence
from brute to most optimal tc: O(n) sc: O(1)
link - leetcode.com/problems/n-th-tribonacci-number

q3 -> search an element in a rotated subarray
link - leetcode.com/problems/search-in-rotated-sorted-array

solved all questions optimally and quite quick, followed by a brief talk on goals and aspirations.

round 2 - technical

1 hr. round, complete deep dive of resume, talked about previous intenship experience, projects, trade offs took. also was asked some questions regd. sytem design and ai engineering in general.

answered all questions well.

verdict: rejected

thoughts:

this was actually the first time i was giving an in office offline dsa interview and the expereince has been very good, they also provided breakfast and lunch. I'm quite down right now since I was not selected (the comp. was too good for intern level >= maang) but still sulking about it is not going to do me any good, just have got to continue the grind.

lmk if any questions.