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Principal Engineer

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4 rounds | 5 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Preparation
Duration: 5 Months
Topics: Coding, Algo, High Level Design, Low Level Design, Problem Solving
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Be strong in design
Tip 2 : Know about your previous project in depth (challenges and how did you solve them)
Tip 3 : Take care of edge cases

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

Tip 1 : Limit it to page 1
Tip 2 : Remove hobbies, personal details

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date2 Mar 2022
Coding problem2

1. System Design Question

Design a tiny url service

Problem approach

Tip 1 : How do you handle scaling
Tip 2 : How do you generate a unique/ short value (time, user etc) to avoid conflicts

2. Reverse of a number

Easy
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Write a program to generate the reverse of a given number N. Print the corresponding reverse number.

Note : If a number has trailing zeros, then its reverse will not include them. For e.g., reverse of 10400 will be 401 instead of 00401.


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02
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date11 Mar 2022
Coding problem1

1. System Design Question

Design a google drive storage system

Problem approach

Tip 1 : How do you handle 5GB videos
Tip 2 : Retry mechanism, failure scenarios

03
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date23 Mar 2022
Coding problem1

1. System Design Question

Design Multilevel Parking Lot

Problem approach

Tip 1 : Be clear on classes and inheritance 
Tip 2 : Be clear on constructors in parent/ child class
Tip 3 : Use enums wherever possible

04
Round
Medium
Face to Face
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date1 Apr 2022
Coding problem1

1. System Design Question

Design auction bidding service along with top 3 bids per auction

Problem approach

Tip 1 : Handle for scale
Tip 2 : Handle async processing 
Tip 3 : Use heaps in cache value store

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Skill covered: Programming

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