A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn. The HR department was quite good at their job, always calling in advance and confirming. After clearing the OA, I received a document with detailed information on each round.

I honestly really liked their recruitment process.

The first round was coding. I think the interviewer did not have time to go through the questions properly. Some questions required constraints that were not mentioned when asked. Without these constraints, it was not possible to solve them in an optimized way. So, I solved a couple of questions using brute force. I did not expect to clear, but I got a call for the next round, which was supposed to be technical. To my surprise, it was a design round.

The interviewer had less experience than me. It seemed like he was also occupied with work at that time. During the design discussions, he started finding some illogical mistakes, as if he had a design in mind and I was not following it, or perhaps I'm not smart enough to understand his questions. He made a suggestion in between, and I found a mistake in it (duplication of data). Throughout the course, we had many differences of opinion; I guess he had already made up his mind to give negative feedback.

If the employees are so busy that they don't even have time to conduct a one-hour interview properly, I wonder what the work-life balance would be like.

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