Stockal interview experience Real time questions & tips from candidates to crack your interview

SDE - Intern

Stockal

1 rounds | 2 Coding problems

Aditya Agrawal

Fresher | Dec 2021

Rejected

Interview preparation journey

Preparation

Duration: 2 Months

Topics: Data Structures, Algorithms, Microservice Architecture, Web Developement Basics, Backend Specific Technologies

Tip

Tip 1 : If it's a startup they'll focus MORE on your work and its quality rather than your problem solving skills.
Tip 2 : Projects help you to discuss upon something in the interview in which both sides will be interested. So having 1 big project helps a lot.

Application process

Where: Campus

Eligibility: No criteria

Resume tip

Tip 1 : Have working and usable links in resume for projects.
Tip 2 : Properly describe the work you've done and what impact it made.
Tip 3 : If you're a fresher and have no prior experience your resume won't and shouldn't exceed 1 page.

Interview rounds

Round

Easy

Video Call

Duration60 minutes

Interview date15 Dec 2021

Coding problem2

The interview was on Google Meet with initial presence of the HR and then the hiring manager.

1. Reverse Integer

Easy

20m average time

80% success

0/40

Asked in companies

You are given a 32-bit signed integer ‘N’. So, the integer will lie in the range [-2^31, 2^31 - 1]. Your task is to return the reverse of the given integer. If reversing causes overflow, then return -1.

Note:

(1) Do not use data types with the capacity of more than 32-bit like ‘long int’ or ‘long long int’ in C++. The problem is meant to reverse the integer using a 32-bit data type only.

(2) You should assume that the environment does not allow storing signed or unsigned 64-bit integers.

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2. Technical Question

Given the project I mentioned in my resume, how would you scale that application. I said that it uses central databased and JWT tokens for authentication so the application can be horizontally scaled easily with multiple instances.

Problem approach

Tip 1 : Have in depth knowledge of the system.
Tip 2 : Understand the problem clearly and think of the corner case possible.