• Applied through referral
• Tier 1 college
• ~10 months of experience

Round 1: Online Assessment

• Standard DSA-based assessment (LC Medium-Hard)
• Focus on fast problem-solving and fundamentals

Round 2: Technical Interview

• Mode: Online

• Started with introduction and background discussion

• Discussion on caching concepts and real-world use cases

• Questions covered:

  • LRU Cache implementation
  • Follow-up on LFU Cache
    • Approach
    • Data structures used
    • Time Complexity
    • Space Complexity

Round 3: Technical Interview

• Mode: Online

• Started with resume and experience discussion

• DSA problem based on Divide & Conquer(LC Hard) in story format so initially I struggled to figure but eventually got it.

• What I did:

  • Explained approach clearly
  • Implemented code
  • Ran test cases with interviewer

• Interviewer was satisfied with solution and explanation

Round 4: Technical + Culture Fit

• Focused on:
  • Resume and past work
  • Projects and contributions
  • Problem-solving approach
  • Some questions regarding DB's, difference between sql and nosql db etc.
  • Discussion around Sprinklr culture and values
  • Alignment with company expectations
  • He was not very much satisfied but okay, as he expected me to have worked on distributed systems, handled real time users, worked with Kafka, Redis, Load Balancers and rate limitting, so I was lagging on that aspect.

Round 5: HR Round

• Behavioral and situational questions:
  • Why do you want to switch?
  • Why Sprinklr?
  • Why are you a good fit?
  • Situational questions to assess decision-making and cultural fit