SSoftware·Software Engineer

Software Software Engineer interview experience

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HyderābādPosted May 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first conversation was a telephonic discussion, but it didn’t feel like a casual recruiter screen at all—it was a pure data-structures round.

I sat through four questions where I had to write code on paper and then explain my reasoning verbally as I went.

The questions were straightforward in wording, but they weren’t set up with examples. That made the round feel more like brainstorming under constraints: I could usually find O(n) solutions for the first two, but I got stuck on the last one when I couldn’t reach the right time complexity. Part of what surprised me was how much clarity they wanted on the approach rather than just arriving at an answer.

Even though I walked away without a later-stage result, the overall experience

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