Applied through online and got a call from recruiter. Got scheduled for a first round interviewer. Felt like interviewer was not well prepared. When I was asking more clarity on the question, he was like "don't complicate the things. " He initially asked me my approach and said my approach. He said about its time complexity and asked if I can enhance it. Time complexity needs to be done in air and we need enhance it by thinking in the air. Somehow started the coding, he was continuously questioning my approach without even completing my code completely. Not sure how he was expecting a optimal solution without brute-force approach. After the interview I felt like to think twice if offered this position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
File entries, of service and their start/stop times. Return the top k services that has most execution time stamp. Since he mentioned file, I was not sure whether we need to read from the file or how do the program gets input, "don' t complicate the things" was the reply I got.
Terrible communication. Got passed between 3 different recruiters all of whom gave specific dates for updates and blew past them. Descriptions of what would be covered in the interviews are wholly inaccurate (don’t bother reading the PDF they sent to “prep” you, almost none of it came up in any of the 3 interviews I did with them.)
Interviewers themselves were decent but clearly had exact “right” answers they were looking for. What’s the point of a leetcode question where there’s only one way to implement it? What’s the point of a system design interview where you’re having a candidate parse through a complex system that they clearly already know everything about and are just looking for 1-2 EXACT modifications to check off their boxes? Was there even a right answer? I genuinely don’t know what this company was looking for. Waste of time, waste of effort, waste of resources. Avoid, avoid, avoid
Interviewed with two separate teams. Coding rounds. Leet code style question. The interview went on for 1 hr. Waiting for the next steps. The seem to like link lists and arrays