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Mostly project related discussions. Then given a scenarios and checked if I am able to design the architecture of the system they were planning to design. Technical people were fair. They were helpful in nature. But their HR department and top management is really really problematic. Attitude of CTO is screwed up. I doubt whether he had smiled in his complete life or not.
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Druva

3.9★
Sep 11, 2018

Mostly project related discussions. Then given a scenarios and checked if I am able to design the architecture of the system they were planning to design. Technical people were fair. They were helpful in nature. But their HR department and top management is really really problematic. Attitude of CTO is screwed up. I doubt whether he had smiled in his complete life or not.

Round 1 - online test Write 3 code snippets in C++, few MCQs on DS, Networking, OS etc. to answer Round 2 - f2f 1> You are given a directed graph. Write code to find a node/vertex in it such that it can directly or indirectly reach all other nodes in the graph. 2> Explain any debug challenges you have faced in your current project, from crash dump in C++ to Java issues Round 3 - f2f 1> Explain the project - Do you know about FUSE filesystem 2> Design a directory walker using multi-threading 3> How can you find duplicates in a huge-stream of incoming objects
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Druva

3.9★
Oct 24, 2019

Round 1 - online test Write 3 code snippets in C++, few MCQs on DS, Networking, OS etc. to answer Round 2 - f2f 1> You are given a directed graph. Write code to find a node/vertex in it such that it can directly or indirectly reach all other nodes in the graph. 2> Explain any debug challenges you have faced in your current project, from crash dump in C++ to Java issues Round 3 - f2f 1> Explain the project - Do you know about FUSE filesystem 2> Design a directory walker using multi-threading 3> How can you find duplicates in a huge-stream of incoming objects

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