Disney+HotStar Software Engineer interview experience

The setup was three rounds: one coding round, one design round, and then a hiring manager-style conversation. The coding round itself was fine—the interviewer understood the problem discussion and seemed experienced.

The design round was where I got thrown off. The interviewer asked about class design and we spent a long time—close to half an hour—trying to arrive at what felt like a simple hierarchy design pattern. It then shifted toward what sounded like a database design expectation, and the round abruptly ended without a very clear sense of what he was evaluating. There was this odd vibe