KKeyValue·Software Engineer

KeyValue Software Engineer interview experience

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CochinPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter-style pre-placement discussion, I was asked to complete a coding test, and then I went into a project-building round.

The people I cleared these earlier steps with were then invited for two rounds of technical interviews, followed by an HR round. The overall flow felt pretty sequential, like each step acted as a gate before the next set started.

The hardest part for me was keeping momentum across the move from pure coding into building. By the time I reached the technical interviews, I was already thinking about how to explain my thinking clearly, not just produce working logic. Once I got through the technical portion, the HR conversation felt like the last checkpoint rather than another technical

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