I was contacted by recruiter. I asked him to gave me two months ow time before screen. The we scheduled my 1st interview. Google doc, phone call, headset is dvantage. Five min introduction "tell me about your PhD/project". Then, a probelm was given me to solve in very vaguous way. I clarified, proposed datastructures and custom datastructures I will use to solve the problem. I was coding, speaking aloud, my interviewr was silent. "Are you happy now with your code?", no I wasnt since I did not debugged it yet. "Are you happy now with your code?", no, let me double check... "Are you happy now with your code?", "Are you happy now with your code?", yes now I am happy, "OK". Then he asked me about complexity and If i can do better than this. The code had one bug and some redundant lines but it was fair good enough for on-site.
The interview was way more challenging than I anticipated, especially the technical rounds. I was thrown off by the depth of the DSA questions. One standout was a coding question about finding the median of two sorted arrays, which I recognized instantly — it was the same problem I had worked through on PracHub. The behavioral questions felt less intense, but the overall vibe was stressful. Ultimately, I didn’t receive an offer. It was a tough experience, but I'm grateful for what I learned along the way.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given two sorted arrays of size m and n, find the median of the combined sorted array in O(log(min(m,n))) time.
The interviewer was very nice, one interviewer didn't show up so I rescheduled it. When I didn't come up with the best solution, the interveiwer was very patient and give me hint as many as possible
1 screening round + 3 onsite round
All rounds were focused on DSA that included topics like strings, linked list, heap and dynamic programming. Screening round had 2 questions on qualifying which I was eligible for onsite and Googliness rounds. The whole process took nearlying 2.5 months
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