LOCUS interview experience Real time questions & tips from candidates to crack your interview
Technical Lead
LOCUS
4 rounds | 4 Coding
problems
Selected Interview preparation journey
Preparation
Duration: 6 months
Topics: Data Science, Data Engineering, System Design, Data Structure, Algorithm.
Tip 1 : Focus more on implementation of learning rather than reading more and more
Tip 2 : Try to learn how your skills is impacting business overall
Tip 3 : Discuss with employees working in company regarding culture and growth
Application process
Where: Linkedin
Eligibility: No criteria
Tip 1 : Specially mention problem statement and end result
Tip 2 : Write down what you tried and failed and learnt from it
Interview rounds
01
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date16 Jun 2021
Coding problem1
It was during evening.
Interviewer is CTO. We discuss about company and some problem statement
1. System Design Question
How you will handle data pipeline and have uptime of 100%
Problem approach
Tip 1 : Implement monitoring system
Tip 2 : Implement playback system if any failure
02
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date1 Jul 2021
Coding problem1
Discuss about various data science problems and its solution using different data which company has. It was inn evening
1. System Design Question
How to implement last mile vehicle routing problem with data?
Problem approach
Tip 1 : Mainly discussed about data store and data pipeline required for it
03
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date10 Jul 2021
Coding problem1
It was in evening discussed about various system design problems
1. System Design Question
System design for book my show and how to implement it.
Problem approach
Tip 1 : Specify different components used in system design like scale, schema, logging etc
04
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 minutes
Interview date15 Jul 2021
Coding problem1
Discuss regarding team and role and how to solve problems related to data pipeline
1. System Design Question
Asked regarding current tech stacks of Data pipeline and what improvement is required.
Problem approach
Tip 1 : Understand all edge cases come in business and how to solve it through data
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