Status: 1.5 YoE, MS CS Top 5 CS school
Position: SE at Cisco
TC: 19.5L base + stocks + 5% bonus = ~25L CTC
Date: January 30, 2023
Round 1 (Interview with a 2 YoE developer - non CS Background):
- Question on DNS resolution, Designing databases for a problem, Bloom filters and other hashing techniques
- Simple two pointers algorithm on a sorted array
Round 2 (Hiring Manager - 5 YoE only):
- Design some database for session authentication - Netflix type - Many devices logged in , option to log out currently logged devices or log out from all devices
- Project related questions and ways to improve
Round 3 (HR - Informal kind ended in 15 minutes)
- How soon you can join?
- Why are you leaving current org?
- Come to our office and we will meet everyone.
Round 4 (VP of Engineering)
- Asked to design a Trie and explain time and space complexity.
- The question was if I type a phone number, it should complete the remaining digits.
- Talked about projects and other system design stuffs
Overall the interview was good and I liked the questions that they asked. It was fun to answer them. Received a reject after couple of days without any feedback (I didn't ask either). Around the same time, Amazon, Google and Meta layoffs happened. So, it could be that. But I enjoyed the questions.
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