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The first interview comprised DSA questions, mainly Dijkstra's Algorithm. The second interview was about threads and semaphores. It demanded an implementation of a Least Recently Used (LRU) Cache using appropriate data structures.

I had three technical rounds and one MR round for a software engineer role. The technical rounds were easy; they asked some coding questions and some cultural fit questions. In the MR round, we had a discussion about projects from a previous company.

Initially, a recruiter screens candidates. Then, that recruiter passes the candidate on to another recruiter, who conducts a subsequent screen. After that, a phone screen is scheduled via CoderPad. You are expected to run the code, fix any syntax e