I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Ottimate (Bengaluru) in Aug 2023
Interview
I applied through a recruiting agency. It took about 1 week. R1: Discussion round with EM. Asked about past projects and typical day-to-day activities on the job. He also asked about my future aspirations and a few questions about team fitment. R2: DSA coding round with a senior developer. For half an hour asked about the optimization process for a theoretical application and how I'd proceed, involving caching, DB queries optimization, indexes etc. Then for the next half hour asked to implement a working solution of LFU cache from scratch with no further details. Asking LeetCode hard with less than half an hour for asking clarification questions and coding solution is insane. Also, the interviewer answered vaguely when asked clarification questions and instead questioned me, expecting me to read his mind. Thoroughly disappointed in the second round. Complete waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Optimize a hypothetical backend system 2. Implement LFU cache
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Ottimate (Bengaluru) in Nov 2020
Interview
The interview consisted of many rounds and it was a long process but was a good overall experience.
Round 1 - HR Discussion
Round 2 - Mini Project
Round 3 - Problem Solving 1
Round 4 - Problem Solving 2
Round 5 - Technical - SQL, AWS, Code Review, etc
Round 6 - Cultural/Managerial
Round 7 - Salary Discussion and Offer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was presented with a Django management command and asked to review it and explain what was happening and also suggest any improvements