SDE 1 at HashedIn
- Difficulty
- Process took
- 2-3 Weeks
- Rounds
- 4
- Format
- Remote
- Applied via
- Job Portal
How it went
- If you are facing an upcoming interview practice being clear, concise, and confident in both technical and behavioral rounds.
What they would tell you
- If you are facing an upcoming interview practice being clear, concise, and confident in both technical and behavioral rounds.
How to prepare
Tips from my experience
- Make sure your DSA fundamentals are clear, especially arrays, hashing, and sliding window techniques.
- Review React fundamentals, core web styling, and how to talk about your projects concisely.
- Expect both coding and conceptual questions about front-end technologies.
Round by round
- 1
Telephonic Round15 min
Quick introduction, and about my skillset i have, general resume based questions
- 2
Technical Interview 190 min
The first technical round on basic DSA concepts. After a brief introduction, I was asked to solve the following problems Find the first non-repeating element in an array, this was a easy problem testing array traversal and hash map. Kadane’s Algorithm for Maximum Subarray Sum Sliding Window Maximum of Size K
- 3
Technical Interview 262 min
Start with Introduction, question related to project from my resume (I chose a front-end), and web technology questions. Project Discussion: I talked about a recent project involving React and front-end optimizations, explaining the challenges I faced and how I improved performance. Questions: Implement binary search in your preferred language. Explain the CSS Flexbox Model and its properties (content, padding, border, margin). I gave real-world examples and clarified how these properties affect layout. Describe your experience with CSS preprocessors like SCSS. What’s the difference between class components and functional components in React? Implement a function to detect a cycle in a linked list
- 4
Managerial60 min
Basic questions (normal softskill)
- “Tell me something not mentioned on your resume.”
- “How do you handle tight deadlines or multiple tasks at once?”
- “What motivates you to work in software development?
What came up
A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.