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1. I had two telephonic interviews, one by a senior engineer in Bangalore and another with a person from the team in the US, with a gap of a week. The first round covered the basics of Java, Web Applications, Linux, REST APIs and a brief overview on the products I had worked on so far. It was a pretty straightforward round. The Second round covered the work, my role and my contributions in detail along with some more questions on Java, Selenium framework, Automation, REST APIs. This round was more of a fit-check round for the role. 2. After the telephonic rounds, an onsite F2F interview was scheduled with 2 technical rounds and a managerial one. First round had 2-3 white board coding questions, a couple of SQL queries and intermediate questions on Core Java. Java questions covered topics ranging from oops, collections and a bit on Generics. The first question was to find largest element in an array with a single iteration (basically an O(n) solution), then a String reversal program and another question I don't recall, all questions expected a minimum time complexity solution with no use of libraries. The round wrapped up with some SQL queries and some questions on REST APIs. 3. The Second round was with an SDET and a SWE. This round picked off from the last round, had 2 more white board coding questions. One question to reverse each word in a string, then capitalize start and end characters in a string and finally a question on compressing a stream of characters with repetitions, wherein the returned string should drop all the extra characters while maintaining the order of the characters in the stream. All questions were expected to be solved without using any Java library, and I solved them all. SDET covered questions on Xpaths, Selenium framework, POM design pattern, REST API error codes, Challenges faced while automating Web Apps, a question to write code to test a login page on white board, Selenium Exceptions and some more standard QA questions. I personally felt QA related questions could have been covered in a bit more detail and follow ups. 3. The managerial round was more of a personality and role-fit check, with more questions on background, my role in previous organization, challenges faced and so on. Onsite round was a good experience, wrapped up on time without any delays and last minute changes. HR got back to me with an offer two weeks later, and I accepted it.
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Software Development Engineer In Test - II

Interviewed at Akamai

4.3★
May 30, 2020

1. I had two telephonic interviews, one by a senior engineer in Bangalore and another with a person from the team in the US, with a gap of a week. The first round covered the basics of Java, Web Applications, Linux, REST APIs and a brief overview on the products I had worked on so far. It was a pretty straightforward round. The Second round covered the work, my role and my contributions in detail along with some more questions on Java, Selenium framework, Automation, REST APIs. This round was more of a fit-check round for the role. 2. After the telephonic rounds, an onsite F2F interview was scheduled with 2 technical rounds and a managerial one. First round had 2-3 white board coding questions, a couple of SQL queries and intermediate questions on Core Java. Java questions covered topics ranging from oops, collections and a bit on Generics. The first question was to find largest element in an array with a single iteration (basically an O(n) solution), then a String reversal program and another question I don't recall, all questions expected a minimum time complexity solution with no use of libraries. The round wrapped up with some SQL queries and some questions on REST APIs. 3. The Second round was with an SDET and a SWE. This round picked off from the last round, had 2 more white board coding questions. One question to reverse each word in a string, then capitalize start and end characters in a string and finally a question on compressing a stream of characters with repetitions, wherein the returned string should drop all the extra characters while maintaining the order of the characters in the stream. All questions were expected to be solved without using any Java library, and I solved them all. SDET covered questions on Xpaths, Selenium framework, POM design pattern, REST API error codes, Challenges faced while automating Web Apps, a question to write code to test a login page on white board, Selenium Exceptions and some more standard QA questions. I personally felt QA related questions could have been covered in a bit more detail and follow ups. 3. The managerial round was more of a personality and role-fit check, with more questions on background, my role in previous organization, challenges faced and so on. Onsite round was a good experience, wrapped up on time without any delays and last minute changes. HR got back to me with an offer two weeks later, and I accepted it.

Telephonic Screening : The questions were basically around CV. They were testing my fundamentals and the basic understanding of concepts and a medium problem solving question on google document. The expectation was to write production ready code. Round 1 F2F : 1. Deep dive into the projects to understand my responsibility and individual contribution. The questions were more around the leadership principles. Two medium problem solving questions one on array manipulation and other on trees. The expectation was to write a production ready code for one problem and detailed approach for the second. The interviewer was specific about all the edge cases. The interviewer was casual and helpful in the problem solving questions. Round 2 F2F : Detailed design and end to end working of the project. Many of the design concepts and design decisions were checked that were used in the project. I have used Caching and distributed databases in my project so I was asked many questions on CAP theorem , cache eviction policies why and how we used them in our projects. Then we went into low level design of a specific design question , it was a tweaked version of distributed cache but not straight forward , I think because I have worked on the cache based projects they have asked me this question. Questions were asked on microservices architecuture and databases as they were mentioned in my CV. Some questions were also asked on front end java script - I could not answer them as I was not into frontend. This round went very well. Director Round : This was the last round. I had the interview over Skype with the director from Seattle. There were a couple of problem solving questions and I was asked to write production ready code. I was asked a question on high level design and we deep dived into the design. This was a refreshing round touching a lot of things on my CV and my motivation to join a start up like environment and my ability to come up with a solution for an unseen realtime problem. HR Round : Again on skype , was with a HR from Dubai. Behavioural questions were asked.
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Software Development Engineer II

Interviewed at DP World

3.3★
Dec 26, 2019

Telephonic Screening : The questions were basically around CV. They were testing my fundamentals and the basic understanding of concepts and a medium problem solving question on google document. The expectation was to write production ready code. Round 1 F2F : 1. Deep dive into the projects to understand my responsibility and individual contribution. The questions were more around the leadership principles. Two medium problem solving questions one on array manipulation and other on trees. The expectation was to write a production ready code for one problem and detailed approach for the second. The interviewer was specific about all the edge cases. The interviewer was casual and helpful in the problem solving questions. Round 2 F2F : Detailed design and end to end working of the project. Many of the design concepts and design decisions were checked that were used in the project. I have used Caching and distributed databases in my project so I was asked many questions on CAP theorem , cache eviction policies why and how we used them in our projects. Then we went into low level design of a specific design question , it was a tweaked version of distributed cache but not straight forward , I think because I have worked on the cache based projects they have asked me this question. Questions were asked on microservices architecuture and databases as they were mentioned in my CV. Some questions were also asked on front end java script - I could not answer them as I was not into frontend. This round went very well. Director Round : This was the last round. I had the interview over Skype with the director from Seattle. There were a couple of problem solving questions and I was asked to write production ready code. I was asked a question on high level design and we deep dived into the design. This was a refreshing round touching a lot of things on my CV and my motivation to join a start up like environment and my ability to come up with a solution for an unseen realtime problem. HR Round : Again on skype , was with a HR from Dubai. Behavioural questions were asked.

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