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- Difficulty
- Process took
- 2-3 Weeks
- Rounds
- 4
- Format
- Remote
- Applied via
- Company Website
How it went
Some lessons learned from my interview Be thorough with your basics, especially arrays, strings, linked lists, trees, and BSTs. Many questions are variations of classic problems but with a twist
What they would tell you
Some lessons learned from my interview Be thorough with your basics, especially arrays, strings, linked lists, trees, and BSTs. Many questions are variations of classic problems but with a twist
How to prepare
Don’t just memorize solutions, try to understand the logic so you can tweak it for follow-ups or edge cases.
Round by round
- 1
Behavioural Round45 min
Mostly the usual questions with some follow-ups I focused on giving real-life examples from my experience to demonstrate my thought process, teamwork, and problem-solving abilities
- 2
Technical Coding Round 160 min
First coding round was interesting. The first question was Closest Binary Search Tree Value II, which felt fine I explained the optimal approach and coded it without much trouble. Then came a curveball, Count subarrays with given sum
- 3
Technical Coding Round 260 min
Second coding round started with Find Peak Element-II. I gave a brute-force solution first, then moved to optimized approach The follow-up was tricky, had to think on the spot, Next was Top K Frequent Elements. I struggled a little while explaining the approach
- 4
System Design60 min
I got rejected right after the second coding round.
What came up
A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.