1. HR Telephonic Screening - The HR round was straightforward and focused on my background, career goals, and understanding of the role. - They explained the position, company culture, and basic expectations. - Very professional and friendly interaction, which set a positive tone for the rest of the process. 2. Engineering Manager Round - This was a technical deep-dive. - DSA: Asked 2 medium-to-hard level questions involving data structures and algorithms, tested both problem-solving and optimization skills. - Core Java & Concurrency: Questions around thread-safety, synchronization, and concurrency best practices. - Spring Boot: Practical scenarios about REST APIs, dependency injection, and application architecture. - The interviewer was engaging, gave hints when I was stuck, and seemed more interested in my thought process than just the final answer. 3. AVP Round - This round mixed problem-solving with system design. - DSA: One modified LeetCode medium-level question — not copy-pasted, but adapted to a real-world scenario. - System Design: Discussion on designing a food delivery application, touching on scalability, database schema, and microservices communication. - Also talked about Kafka — use cases, message flow, and handling high throughput. - The conversation was interactive and focused on understanding trade-offs in design decisions.