RejectedSDE-1 at Media.net
- Difficulty
- Process took
- 2-3 Weeks
- Rounds
- 3
- Format
- Remote
- Applied via
- Other
How it went
The coding contest was 90 minutes, three questions Only 10 students shortlisted due to plagiarism check, so solving questions alone wasn’t enough, original approach matter
Their background
Media.net on-campus interview experience, i am sharing each detail, what happened in every round
Round by round
- 1
Coding Test60 min
The coding contest was 90 minutes, three questions Only 10 students shortlisted due to plagiarism check, so solving questions alone wasn’t enough, original approach matter
- 2
Technical Interview60 min
Next round was one-on-one technical interview with developer who had about three years experience Red-Black Tree vs AVL Tree OS/DBMS Questions: Process management, scheduling, and ACID properties SQL: Find the third largest salary Coding
- 3
Technical Interview60 min
The interviewer, this time a more senior developer, asked question on DSA, OS, DBMS, and coding DSA: Disk scheduling algorithms, deadlock (how to prevent, detect, recover) and DBMS: Database indexing Coding: The question was similar to Remove Invalid Parentheses. I wrote my approach in Google Docs
What came up
A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.