Drivetrain.ai SDE-2 Interview Experience (1.8 YOE)
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Drivetrain.ai SDE-2 Interview Experience (1.8 YOE)

Round 1 – HR Screening
Quick discussion about experience, projects, expectations, and notice period.

Round 2 – Technical

  • Sliding Window Maximum (solved both brute force and optimal deque solution)
  • Weighted Random Selection
  • Find all possible recipes given recipes, ingredients, and supplies (Topological Sort / BFS)

Solved both questions within the 1-hour round.

Round 3 – Technical

  • DP problem: minimize difference between sums of two subsets
  • Design a data structure supporting push, pop, top, getMax, and getMin, and difference of Max - Min at any point. All Operations are expected to be O(1)

Solved both questions within the 1-hour round.

Round 4 – CTO Round (30 mins)
Given a probability-based problem that required a binary search approach. Was able to identify the pattern and solve it in around 15 minutes. The remaining time was spent discussing optimizations and edge cases.

Round 5 – CEO Round
General discussion around culture fit, startup expectations, and career goals.

Offer

  • SDE-2

  • Base: ₹24 LPA

  • Fixed Bonus: ₹3 LPA

  • Total Compensation - ₹27 LPA Fixed

  • Remote

  • Current Compensation - ₹22 LPA

Outcome

Received the offer but decided not to proceed as we couldn't reach an agreement on compensation.

Overall, a good interview process with strong focus on DSA, problem-solving, and fundamentals.

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