Before the interview there was an OA which was held in my clg campus itself. There were 4 problems, out of which we should solve 3. They shortlisted everyone who solved atleast 1 problem fully. They didn't seperate SP/DSE based on this OA, jst shortlisted for interview.

My Interview Experience

1. First they gave me a laptop where I was given 2 problems and I should solve any 1 within 30 mins. The problems were pretty easy and basic array, sliding window and hashmap kinda problems.I solved 1 and half problem within 20 mins and my coding round was done. These were the problems : Assign Cookies but the parity of cookie and children greed should be same and I couldn't find the other problem but something like count of unordered pairs where i < j and code[i] = code[j] and j-i <= k

2. Now the interview started properly. He first asked self intro where I mentioned I solved some X problems in DSA and this was also in my resume, so he gave me a problem on paper and asked to write pseudo code and solve it. This was the problem : given a string S = "absdsdf" and S1 = "fab", check if S1 exists in any of the rotated variations of S. Though it was a pretty easy problem, in the interview I fumbled and couldn't come up with the logic. I was thinking of DP and sliding window and overengineering. He was very disappointed at this point. Then he gave me another problem : given a string S = "abc", find the subset of all the subsequences of the S. He asked to code the brute approach with $O(2^n)$ and I fumbled again. I immediately wrote a for loop and then realised recursion might be better and in the process took some time to think and the interviewer asked to leave the problem.

3. Now he asked me to write an sql query for the following : there is products table with productId, deptId, price and then there is transaction table with productId, deptId, transactionDate, price, status. Now I need to find, for every day, for each department, the count of successful transactions.. Now I wrote some query with left join which was good enough, it might not be perfect but seemed good enough and he was okay with it.

4. Now he started questioning about the skills I mentioned in my resume, projects and grilled me on every word that I mentioned like basic definitions of AWS, Docker, RAG, Vector databases, javascript specific questions, etc all from my resume only. He asked some scenario based questions like how would you troubleshoot server connection issues, how would you handle concurrency in javascript, how would you ensure human in the loop for agents, etc. I answered all of the decently.

5. Now he asked me 2 more dsa problems - Product of array except self and Longest subtring without repeating character. I solved both of them.

This concluded the interview. His feedback for me was to improve my problem solving skills.

I was not even asked one questions about CS fundamentals, work experience, LLD, HLD or behavioural hr things.

This was just my experience, not what others might've went through. The excessive DSA questions is purely because of me mentioning I solved some X problems and couldn't solve a basic problem he first asked. If I would've solved that problem, maybe there wouldn't have been so many other probelms asked.