Freshworks·Software Engineer

Freshworks Software Engineer interview experience

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ChennaiPosted Apr 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed on-premises after an HR screening through LinkedIn, and the whole process was structured into three technical rounds.

The first round was DSA, and I cleared it.

In the second round, I had to do one DSA question plus a system design task. For the DSA part, I worked through a string manipulation problem, wrote code on paper, and walked through the solution. My initial approach had issues with some corner cases, and I optimized it after that—plus the interview emphasized specifying time and space complexity.

For the system design portion, I was asked to design a news feed application and to draft HLD and LLD on paper. The interviewer said I missed scenarios related to users, and I also overlooked details like

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