Role - SDE-1
Company - Gameberry Labs
YOE - 11 Months Full Time as SDE-1 at Gaming startup
Education - Tier-1 (IIIT)
Date - June/July 2026

Round 1: Online Assessment

This assessment was on the AccioJob portal and was about 1.5 hours long. There were 2 medium-level DSA questions:

1. Check if a linked list is a palindrome.
2. A recursion question that could be optimized using DP as well.

I completed both the questions. In the second question, I did not use DP and submitted just the recursion solution because the constraints were small.

IMPORTANT - Right after submitting both the questions, there was an AI interview where I was asked to explain my solution to the second question. The AI interviewer also cross-questioned me on my approach. Questions included:

• Are there overlapping subproblems?
• Can we use DP?
• What would be the time complexity?
• What would be the size of the DP array?
• How would you initialize it?
• etc.

I completed the assessment successfully, and the HR scheduled my first round.

Round 2: Machine Coding

This was an LLD round, where I was expected to write working code in 1.5 hours.

Problem -> Create a music player (like Spotify) with functionalities such as play, pause, skip, back, add to queue, create playlists, loop, and shuffle.

I completed this and moved to the next round.

Round 3: Hiring Manager Round

This round was divided into 4 sections and lasted 1 hour.

1. Resume-based discussion - I was asked about one challenging project that I had worked on at my last company, followed by technical discussions around it. I was not able to explain one aspect of it during this round.
2. Problem Statement 1 - I was given a simple code snippet containing a loop with an if condition and was asked to find the bug and the case where it could fail. After this, I was asked to write unit tests for it.
3. I was asked to write pseudocode for an LRU cache-type question. I wrote it successfully.
4. Behavioural questions like "Why Gameberry?" and "Which project are you most proud of?" etc.

Verdict - REJECTED

I thought my last interview went decently, but maybe I was rejected because I could not explain one part of a project I had worked on, as it had been a while since I last worked on it.

Thanks!