Applied through AccioJob, the process included offline test in Acciojob center.
Assessment Round: which had around 10 questions based on APIs, implementation logics, pseudo code writing, etc.
AI Interview Round: After clearing this assessment round, you'll have to give virtual interview driven by AI, in which AI will ask question based on your best answer in your previous assessment, it'll ask follow up questions on it, and the AI interview ends.
After around 2-3 weeks of waiting, I am told that I am shortlisted, I give availability for my interview, process begins.
Technical Round 1 : It was a little bit Resume Discussion round followed by 2 DSA questions.
Q1 - Longest substring in a string : I told the unordered_set approach, interviewer then asked me to code it using map, I did same using unordered_map.
Q2 - Remove duplicates in an array : Started with the optimal solution directly, moved duplicates to the end of array, and returned the index upto where unique elements are present.
Both codes were written in Online GDB Compiler, and link of codes shared with interviewer.
Got shortlisted for 2nd Technical Round,
Technical Round 2 : System Design Round, Initially it started with my work discussion, resume discussion, in Resume I mentioned Terraform and Docker, some questions related to it. Then projects discussion in my resume, I fumbled in one of my project (didn't brush it up nicely), then interviewer asked how would I scale this applicattion, I told using multiple servers, load balancer, db scaling, caching, etc. Some System design questions were asked like . In the whole 45 min system design discussion, there was only 1 fumbleness in one of my project discussion, and little bit answer mismatch in last question, the interviewer was expecting me to answer fuzzy match, but I answered cleansing of data.
This was my first System design interview, it was a great experience, it went well according to me, I answered most of the questions, I am not sure why I was rejected, but yeah great learning experience , now I have an idea how system design interviews are.
