Backend Engineer Interview Experience - Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Process
The online assessment was on HackerRank platform, with 2 DSA problems.
I would say both were medium to hard.
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Almost Sorted: You have been given an array and you need to tell the minimum number of elements to remove so that the array becomes almost sorted. Here, "almost sorted" means the array becomes completely sorted on removing just one more element. I wasn't able to even attempt it, even though I knew it was related to binary search.
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The second question was "Table of Contents": Detailed description and the exact same question: https://studyx.ai/questions/4lqdtni/design-a-system-to-extract-a-table-of-contents-toc-from-a-document-written-in-a-simple?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Wayfair Backend Engineer role in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
Success Rate
Wayfair's interview process for their Backend Engineer roles in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Wayfair's Backend Engineer interview process in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
Wayfair Work Experiences
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