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Software Engineer Interview Experience
Interview process
Just like any other normal SWE process. Online interviews were postponed a lot, took over 2 months to complete the interview process.
- Online assessment
- Phone interview
- Technical interview
- Final round
Interview rounds
4 questions across 4 roundsOnline assessment
1 questionSpecific questions asked
A LC type question and a AI based codebase bug fix
Phone interview
1 questionSpecific questions asked
Prime number
Technical interview
1 questionSpecific questions asked
Given a family tree, find upcoming birthday
Final round
1 questionSpecific questions asked
Give text corpus, build next word predictor
Interview tips
Be prepared for open ended questions and to write on notepad. LC helps but not all interviews will be based on that.
Company culture
Just the timeline kept postponing, and the interview feedback didn't feel quite accurate.
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