Process
The interview process starts with a phone call where they ask some basic questions about your education background and then ask you to take an online coding test at Codility.
There were two coding questions: one easy and one difficult.
If you clear this phase, then there is a 1-hour technical telephonic interview, which is to test your depth of knowledge. It's pretty hard.
After that, there will be several onsite interviews in a day.
Questions
A tree implementation question.
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