The OA consisted of three parts:
DSA Problems: One easy and one medium problem. I finished both in 20 minutes.
Work Simulation Round: This had 5–6 modules where I was bombarded with emails and had to select appropriate responses. It also included real-world problem-solving, like debugging an issue where a product page wasn’t loading. This round was mainly design to assess my decision-making and leadership principles.
Behavioral Questions: Multiple-choice format where I had to pick the most likely and least likely responses to different workplace scenarios.
I felt the OA went well, and on November 25, I received an email asking me to fill out a survey to be considered for the next stage.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
This was a DSA round with a very senior engineer as the interviewer. I was asked only one question on Graphs, where I had to code everything from input handling to output printing. The choice of data structure was important.
The problem was the Currency Converter problem (Link).
https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/483660/google-phone-currency-conversion
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.
The phone screen went longer than expected, focusing heavily on implementation details. The interviewer really grilled me on my approach to a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache, asking how I'd combine a hashmap with a doubly linked list. I felt well-prepared since I had gone through system design examples on PracHub, which made me comfortable discussing eviction policies. The later rounds included more technical questions and behavioral interviews, but in the end, I received an offer, though I ultimately decided to decline. Overall, I’d say the process was average, with solid questions.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Design and implement a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache supporting get(key) and put(key, value) in O(1) average time. Walk through combining a hashmap with a doubly linked list, eviction policy when capacity is exceeded, and how you'd extend it to handle thread-safe concurrent access.