Recently interviewed for an SSE role. Sharing my experience here since the process was quite different from the usual DSA-heavy interviews.

Location: Dublin, Ireland

• The process had 6 rounds in total — 3 technical + 3 non-technical rounds.
• Non-Tech rounds would happen only, if you clear the technical part!

Round 1 — Screening

• 10–15 mins resume discussion
• Implemented Connect 4 Game with working code

Round 2 — Technical

• 10–15 mins resume discussion

• Implement Snake Xenzia Game

• Interviewer expected:

  • Proper pseudocode
  • Clean OOP design
  • Modular/extensible code
  • Thoughtful handling of game state & edge cases

This round was more about code quality and design than just getting the solution working.

Round 3 — System Design

• ~15 mins resume discussion
• Design a Stock Exchange System

Verdict:

Rejected, due to bad quality of the code in the Round 2, Maybe I was a bit unlucky, because fellow people got pretty straightforward questions!