Process Overview: The process started with an online assessment on HackerRank consisting of two medium-level coding problems. After passing, I was invited to a Super Day – four hours of back-to-back interviews split across three rounds with only short breaks in between. Round 1 – Coding + Code Review (approx. 1 hour) The round had two parts. The first part was a code review exercise: I was given a pull request and asked to identify issues as if reviewing a teammate’s code. This focused on Spring Boot best practices, security concerns (hardcoded credentials, password hashing), exception handling, and design principles like SRP. The second part was a LeetCode-style medium problem. The interviewer was engaged and gave hints when needed. Overall a fair round – time management is key here as the code review can eat into your DSA time if you’re not careful. Round 2 – System Design (approx. 1 hour) I was asked to design a URL shortener. The interviewer had a whiteboard-style setup on HackerRank. I followed a structured approach: clarified requirements, defined functional and non-functional requirements, discussed capacity estimation, designed the core components, defined key APIs, and talked through the database schema. The discussion went into scaling, caching strategy, and the trade-off between 301 and 302 redirects. Round 3 – Behavioral

The Video Interview took place on 10th March 2021 on the Hirevue Platform. There were 2 behavioral-based questions, flashed on screen one after the other. And it’s a recorded video interview, and the best part was that you can Retake your video but only once for each video. You will be given 30 secs to prepare for each question, and then you can start recording your answer.