Disney+HotStar Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

MumbaiPosted Nov 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process was four rounds, and the discussions were genuinely nice and thoughtful.

Most of the time they centered on basic computer science understanding, the internals of my own project, and a deeper grasp of distributed systems and scalability.

Instead of just asking about abstract architecture, the scaling angle was constant. They wanted me to understand the trade-offs behind data structures and network components—how you’d pick them depending on constraints, and how you’d think through the system as the load grows.

Difficulty was difficult, but it didn’t feel like trick questions. I didn’t get an offer, but I appreciated the quality of the conversation because it was

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