XYZ Software Engineer interview experience

First came the OA with multiple problems at roughly mid-to-difficult levels, and once I passed that gate, I got pulled into in-person technical evaluation. The second stage emphasized my projects and also covered computer fundamentals.

Across the technical parts, I spent a lot of time on the basics that keep showing up in coding interviews: core subjects like OOPs and DBMS, plus OS and other fundamental areas. I remember coding questions that were very LeetCode-medium-ish in spirit, and I also ran into SQL. In one of the rounds, they explicitly looked for OOP concepts and database knowledge;