Altimetrik·Software Engineer

Altimetrik Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a fairly heavyweight technical loop that felt like it was trying to pressure-test everything I knew about distributed systems, performance, and core engineering fundamentals.

The interview covered a wide spread: distributed caching at global scale for millions of users, designing a URL shortening service like Bitly with scalability and fault tolerance, and a payment gateway design focused on high availability and low latency. I also had to answer algorithms and data structure questions, including computing the median from a real-time stream efficiently, implementing an LRU cache from scratch, and a shortest-path problem with negative edges.

Coding wasn’t isolated either—I had to tackle practical problems like a minimum cost path through a grid, a thread-safe

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