The interview process included a take-home assignment. After submitting it, a phone interview was scheduled, which would primarily focus on explaining the submitted code.

After the phone interview was scheduled, the interviewer did not call the first time. I had to inform my recruiter about this, who failed to respond immediately. After several emails, my phone interview was rescheduled. It was surprising that for a round entirely about my submitted code, the interviewer had not even looked at it. This suggests a lack of preparation on their part.

Overall, it was not a good experience, especially for a company seeking talented individuals.

Problem: Design an org-chart server.

The server (preferably multi-threaded) reads a sample file containing employee data.

File format:

• It is semi-colon separated.

• The first field is the employee ID.

• The second field is the name (can be space-separated).

• The third field is the manager's ID.

• The employee ID will be equal to the reports-to-ID for the CEO.

• The file can have empty lines.

• If the number of tokens is not equal to 3, it should ignore these lines but report a message/warning and continue.

• The IDs can be numbers or strings.

Sample file: ########### 1: CEO: 1 2: CTO: 1 3: VP Sales: 1

4: Tech Manager1: 2 5: Tech Manager2: