I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at str8bat (Bengaluru) in Jun 2025
Interview
Poor interview process from a shark tank featured startup. The interviewer (CEO) was overtly hostile and self-important, didn't care about prior experiences, and only wanted to find faults. It seemed like a promising place to work, but the behaviour of the CEO left a bad impression.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at str8bat in Jul 2020
Interview
I applied for the position of Software Engineer at str8bat online.
Overall the process took 2 days.
This is a startup company that consists of 10-12 people.
First, the co-founder called me and explained about the domain and technology that they are working then after mutual agreement the process was started.
Next one of their team member contacted me and asked questioned about some of the basic technologies that they are using.
After that, there was one hackerrank test consist of one program to be completed in an hour.
Then again co-founder contacted me for the next round and again asked some of the work that I was doing in my last organization and If I am ready to adopt new work and technologies and set some expectations about my new role.
After this there was one last final round with the founder and the co-founder and It was having the same formal discussion about my work and some problem-solving puzzles as well some questions based on the given situation what will you do.
The allover process was easy.
They just wanted a fully dedicated guy who can help them in scaling their infrastructure and building new features for them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First Round :
Question about my work, domain, and technologies.
Second Round:
Question on some of the current projects that I was working on and some of the AWS Cloud Infrastructure.
Given me the program to find the next bigger string of a given input.
Third Round:
It was more or less on some architectural design.
Logical Puzzle to reach from point A to point B in a given time which is 17 minutes for 4 people A, B, C, and D who takes time 1,2,5, 10 minutes respectively.
How you will design an API that will have larger data to process which takes time. What would be your approach?
How you can be helpful to scale our system?