Lead Engineer Interview Experience - Bengaluru, Karnataka
Process
The interview process included:
- Case study
- Two technical rounds
- Director round
The case study presented an NP-hard problem, essentially a REST wrapper over a cab routing algorithm. The interviewer seemed unable to grasp graph-based approaches and was only interested in CRUD operations.
This was followed by two technical rounds. The interviewers appeared to have a specific answer in mind for each question. If you could provide that exact answer, you would be selected. They overcrowded the interview process. The first round started at 2 PM. As an IIT alumnus with experience at companies like Microsoft and Intuit, I would not recommend this company. Not a single line of code was requested.
The only positive aspect was the provision of free lunch.
Questions
What are streams?
Interviewer was not able to digest the functional programming definition.
Some impractical questions:
- What if you instantiate an ExecutorService on every method call?
- How would you upload a large file?
- What data structure would you use for a Google Suggestion service? Why not a BST? A Trie?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Target Lead Engineer role in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Success Rate
Target's interview process for their Lead Engineer roles in Bengaluru, Karnataka is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Target's Lead Engineer interview process in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Target Work Experiences
- 4.0A good company to work withLead Engineer • Current EmployeeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJuly 30, 2025Pros: Work-life balance is good.Cons: High politics Not many growth opportunities for IC experienced people.
- 4.0A great company to learn, invent, and excelLead Engineer • Former EmployeeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJuly 20, 2025Pros: 50 days of learning policies Work-life balance Motivation for innovation through hackathons and team member incubator programs.Cons: Job security. To be vigilant during organizational change. Anytime a successful program gets pulled off.
- 4.0Good Balance, Need AmbitionLead Engineer • Current EmployeeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJuly 18, 2025Pros: Good work-life balance in the company.Cons: Need to be ambitious to learn.
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