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Lead Software Engineer Interview Experience - Chennai, India

April 18, 2024
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day.

HR reached me through LinkedIn, screened my profile and the interview was scheduled on-premises. First round is DSA. Second is One DSA question + System Design question. I cleared first round. Lost in second round. Totally three or technical rounds were planned. First round I had two interviewers . They were very polite and helpful. We discussed about my previous projects, roles and responsibilities in current organization. A question on String manipulation was given with level of difficulty set to medium. I wrote the code in paper and explained and walked through the the solution for given input and on system. Initially my solution was not working for some corner cases, later I optimized it. Most important thing, we need to specify time and space complexity.

In second round, Part1 - DSA Question(solved on paper and walked through the solution). Part 2 - System Design. I was asked to design a News Feed application. I discussed the requirements, drafted HLD and LLD on paper. Interviewer said I missed scenarios with respect to user. I missed few inner details like child tables, user table. Interviewer was not impressed. Dint clear second round.

Questions

First round: String based DSA problem (HARD)

Second round: Design LLD, HLD and schema for News feed application

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 9 interview experiences for the Freshworks Lead Software Engineer role in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Success Rate

22%
Pass Rate

Freshworks's interview process for their Lead Software Engineer roles in Chennai, Tamil Nadu is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive44%
Neutral0%
Negative56%

Candidates reported having negative feelings for Freshworks's Lead Software Engineer interview process in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.