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Built from 1 candidate report with 3 first-hand accounts, covering 2021-22.

Hiring process

2021-22 · Internship

1
Coding test
Online coding assessment
HackerRank2 questionsmixed
dynamic programming · arrays · scheduling
One account calls the first question LeetCode-easy level; a second question varies by account.
2
Technical interview
Domain / technical interview
60 min
OOP · data structures · hashing · project discussion · cloud · agile · OS · web development · SQL · relational vs non-relational DB · API handling · two pointers
About an hour, held the day after the test in one account. Heavy on resume projects.
3
HR interview
45 min
company values · internships and projects · hobbies · situational questions
Friendly; one account says about 45 minutes, another says very few questions.

4 pieces of advice, in their own words. Names removed.

To prepare for coding round just do basic competitive coding.
test · 2021-22
Most of the coding questions are present on leetcode and aptcoder etc. For coding contests with time constraint, I find Codeforces as the best site for this purpose.
test · 2021-22
Keep communicating with the interviewer and tell them how you are approaching the problem. Try to provide all the solutions from brute to optimal step-by-step. Good knowledge of everything that you have mentioned in your resume.
interview · 2021-22
Have a good knowledge of topics mentioned on your resume, since for me, most questions were related to those topics.
resume · 2021-22

The kind of problem, not the problem itself. Our practice questions are written to match these patterns.