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Senior Consultant

Thought Works
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5 rounds | 3 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 3 Months
Topics: OOPS, System Design, SOLID & Clean, Coding, Algorithms, REST API & its standards
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Practice System Design applying Solid Principles
Tip 2 : Keep daily touch of Algorithm Problems , (try different approaches for same problems that will help to understand deep & you will find your own unique way)

Application process
Where: Referral
Eligibility: No
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Keep it simple (Try not to have more than 2 pages)
Tip 2 : Always write the impact your work made on project, along with the work done

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date16 Feb 2022
Coding problem0

API Development Round: Time 9:00 - 10:00 AM

Company have given a git repo , to understand code for a week.
Then on interview day an enhancement feature in existing API or New api requirement will be given...where we have to do that in an hour interview in screen share.
It is called as pair programming. 

They expected how clean & scalable our code is, how good we understood the existing code base .

Interviewer allowed me to google the syntax & very comfortable interview.

02
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration90 Minutes
Interview date22 Feb 2022
Coding problem2

Time : 10 to 11:30 AM
Technology depth round , where technical discussion on technologies we have worked....
i) Logical question where u have to give an approach to solve that.
ii)Design a ticket booking application (Similar to bookmyshow APP)

1. System Design Question

Design an approach for parsing an html file

Problem approach

Step 1:
1) Decided a data structure for store this value (Used a tree)

2. System Design Question

Design a BookmyShow APP, with Domain classed & DB Model.

03
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date25 Feb 2022
Coding problem0

Its a Tech Discusiion Round. Tech Stack i have worked was discussed
1) Spring & EJB Questions

What is spring boot.

What are annotations?

04
Round
Medium
Group Discussion
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date1 Mar 2022
Coding problem0

Non Technical - Thoughtworks cultural round. Discussion on gender equality, LGBTQ & social change

05
Round
Medium
Telephonic
Duration30 mintutes
Interview date4 Mar 2022
Coding problem1

Managerial Round. Discussion on general global tech & my aspirations

1. Basic HR Questions

Why should we hire you?

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Here's your problem of the day

Solving this problem will increase your chance to get selected in this company

Skill covered: Programming

What is recursion?

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