Interviews are hard! Isn't it? There are many variables in the interview. My interview would have been done and sealed if it was any other day! On that festival day, most of the iOS developers at Sixt Bangalore was on leave. So, my final round was scheduled with an Indian iOS developer from Germany. My interviewer was hardly interested in taking interview. He seemed rude, attended my interview 10 minutes after the scheduled time, none of his coding pads worked for him, asked a few silly and simple questions. I answered them all to the point. I think the interview was just about 20 minutes or so. No tough questions asked. That was it, My result was pre-decided by him. I could not clear his ego :) The first round was data-structure round. The interviewer was helping and kind. He asked me a question on linked list and I suggested a few solutions with extra space (using hashmap or set). But I could not arrive at the best solution. The second question was bit difficult but I answered it with 0(n) solution. Here interviewer looked for my approach than the perfect answer. The second round was DS and about design. I was asked a question on Tree. I gave him a recursive solution and wrote the solution. He then asked me to write a non-recursive function. I wrote the bottom-up solution. He again asked me to write a top-down solution. This was basically an application of the BFS algorithm, I wrote that as well. The interviewer seemed happy. Next, he asked a design question. We discussed technical implementations and interfaces. Final round at Bangalore office was with the manager of iOS team. He was a super cool guy. He asked me, behavioural and cultural questions. I hoped that I would work with him. Overall I loved everything about the team, the work they do and the culture. The final round was on my strong area iOS. The questions asked were basic questions. But as I said, I could not clear the ego of the interviewer! This was my first rejection of an iOS round. Honestly, I feel cheated by the interviewer and I hope he never faces a person like him as an interviewer. Dear interviewer, Every candidate attends interview with passion and dream to work for the company. Forgot your privilege and elitism, judge fairly. When in doubt, ask tough questions! Most importantly, decline the interview if you are not interested.

Worst company. After submitting the home assignment by spending 7 days they did not even give detailed feedback about it. I have sent several mails and they did not even bother to give feedback. This was one of the worst interview I ever had in my entire career.