SDE 1 at Moodys

How it went

What they would tell you

How to prepare

Their background

Round by round

1. 1

   Screening Round30 min

   Discussion about my background, skills, and overall experience. The conversation covered standard screening questions to understand my profile better and how i am fit for the role or not.

2. 2

   Technical Round 160 min

   It was conducted by a lead engineer and began with a basic introduction, then moved on to my resume, previous work experience, and the projects I had worked on. Questions asked:

   • How would you implement a LRU Cache from scratch? (not code, only discuss the approach)
   • Given an array of integers, find the longest subarray with sum 0.
   • And some Java collections & their internal working
   • LRU Cache
3. 3

   Technical Round 260 min

   Questions asked:

   • Given a binary tree, find the maximum path sum between any two nodes.
   • Write a query to find the second highest salary in a table, i explained 3-4 different approaches.
   • Core Java and Spring Boot
   • Maximum path sum
4. 4

   Hiring40 min

   • We talked about my career goals and what kind of work I enjoy.
   • They also gave a quick overview of the tech stack their team uses and asked if I had experience with any of the tools or languages. I got a chance to ask questions too, which helped me understand the role and team better.

What came up