Multi-round interview.

Started with an online meeting with an online editor. Had to switch the camera on due to some company policy – I don't understand the real reason for not trusting the candidate. The expectation was to get correct output code for two problems in 40 minutes, which seems unfair considering you are coding on an unfamiliar web IDE. It went okay for me.

Following is the onsite interview review. 4.5 hours were spent on-site for three interviews.

Overall experience is marked negative because:

1. I felt the interviewers were rigid on the expected solution for a non-calibrated design question. I still doubt their solution will work. I read through answers to think about the details.
2. Compared to other companies in this pay bracket, the interview was unstructured (leaving out the coding round).
3. The reason for rejection given to me was not even checked in interviews.

Find a needle in a haystack. All permutations.

Graph traversal discussion. Given a dependency graph, propose an execution order.

Parking lot design system.

Given two async streams: Trip: {tripId, date, city} Bill: {billId, tripId, date, amount}

Design a system to get a real-time aggregated view of the following: City, TripCount, TotalAmount

Events in both streams can be out of sync or duplicated, but the result needs to be accurate and real-time.