Anonymous·Software Engineer

Anonymous Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an online assessment that felt structured and timed: three coding questions plus a debugging task, all wrapped into about 90 minutes.

After that, I had a technical interview centered on DSA and problem solving. I was asked to solve a binary tree problem for the left view, and then go deeper on complexity and how to do it without recursion, plus what would happen to the approach if the tree grew to millions of nodes. Then I moved to an interval-style question about meeting times and how many rooms were needed, where we compared heap versus sorting approaches and talked about optimization for large inputs.

The next step was a system design discussion where I had to design a scalable URL shortener. We walked through what APIs

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