No phone interview - direct onsite.

5 technical rounds concentrating on problem-solving and coding.

Four out of five went really well.

The one interviewer from the start said he was going to be on the harder side and asked a question that was so ambiguous that I could not understand:

"How does a system return different output for the same input? Reasons for it."

It turned out to be more OS-related, combining probability, page swapping, and threads.

He was very rude from the beginning and was constantly evaluating me, smirking.

(One instance, when I asked him if I was proceeding in the right direction, he just gave a silly laugh and said, 'I must know it and must not ask him.' I did not find it very professional from an interviewer's point of view.)

But he also asked a coding question, and I did solve it, but before I could improvise and look at all the edge cases, the time was up.

(I must also say all other interviewers were friendly, and the problem-solving went on more like a discussion.)

After the interview, I waited for a month and also had a team match call with one of the teams that I interviewed with. So, indeed, I was very hopeful since it does not happen often.

But the recruiter called me after a month to say the hiring committee did not move forward.

The feedback given was nothing solid.

NDA.

But was asked about:

• Trees
• DP
• API designing
• Unit Testing
• Geometry
• Arrays
• Strings