Software Engineer

Interviewer asks me to introduce myself and then he introduced himself. Asked why are you switching at this point of your career and some behavioural questions first. Then he asked some Android Fundamental questions, then he asked basic DS question to write code for palindrome check, first i did it for string and then he asked it do it for numbers. then again some behavioural questions and then interview ended.

It was around 5 pm, First Interviewer asks me about my best works, I told him about the short video thought sharing (similar to Instagram Reels) app which i have worked in my Internship. He asked me about many use cases of that, like how will you scale the features like followers and following of the users.

It was at 5 PM, Interviewer asked me about my projects and my previous projects, He asked me questions related to that as I have worked with Jetpack Compose in my previous company, then he asked me about advantages and disadvantages of Jetpack Compose. Some Android related questions like what is debouncing, what is Coroutines and use cases of that, then he asked me to implement Search Recommendation system like google search. I implemented using some string matching algorithms. then he asked me to add feature like if user enters some wrong keyword like Bunana.. we have to show search results of Banana.. then I suggested Longest common subsequence related approach.

This was round with an Engineering Manager basically a Hiring Manager Round, he asks majorly behavioural questions, some real life solutions to the product related questions. He was browsing through Unacademy site, and asked what will you suggest changes for this particular feature. He was judging me how fast I give solution to the problems he was asking. then we discussed the Native or Hybrid frameworks are better for an Android application of organisation like Unacademy.

It was at 12 Noon. He was asking me behavioural questions and checking me that If I will be a perfect fit or not for the role or fast paced development culture at Unacademy.