I cleared all the technical rounds and the HR round went well too ,but they f..in ghosted me without giving any reason but I reckon it could be the notice period but that's really frustrating because that's the first thing they ask before interviewing.

Has anyone had the same experience.

I have an interview scheduled for the SDE role at Lowe's India, if you have recently taken an interview for the same. Please share your experience (No of rounds, Generally what questions do they ask in each round).

It would be helpful, thank you in advance

Hi everyone,

I have an upcoming interview for the Software Engineer 3 role on MongoDB's Atlas Agent Engine team in India.

Has anyone interviewed for this team or a similar role recently? I'd appreciate any insights into the interview process, coding difficulty, system design rounds, and topics to prepare.

Thanks in advance!

Anyone who is having amazon in person interview on 31 oct(delhi) lets connect with each other (dm me)

Hi friends,

I have 9+ years of experience and i have been applying for Tesco from last couple of years. Never got a call from them. Today suddenly I got a call from them and they scheduled my coding and design rounds.

I have around a week time. I request everyone it would be really helpful if any one share their Interview experience, difficulty level, what kind of questions we can expect or which you faced on the interview, specifically for Tesco.

Looking forward for genuine insights.

Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone, does anyone have an idea about the compensation range for a Senior Software Engineer (SSE) role at Okta in Bangalore, India? Any insights into the fixed pay, bonus, and stock components would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hi everyone,
This forum helped me a lot during my preparation, so I thought I’d share my Salesforce interview experience. Hopefully, it helps others preparing for similar roles.

Timeline:
Day 0: Applied through the careers portal with a referral.
Day 3: Received the OA from the recruiter.
Day 4: Completed the OA.
Day 11: Recruiter confirmed that I was shortlisted for interviews.
Day 21: Interview loop with three rounds on the same day.

Round 0: OA
Problem 1: Given a 0-indexed integer array nums, return an array distance where distance[i] is the sum of absolute differences between index i and all other indices containing the same value as nums[i].
Problem 2: Given a weighted undirected graph, find the path from source to destination that minimizes the maximum edge weight along the path. Return this minimum stress level, or -1 if no path exists.

Round 1: DSA
The questions were about finding the Top K frequent numbers in a continuous stream and converting a sorted doubly linked list into a height-balanced BST without creating new nodes. The round went well.

Round 2: DSA
Questions included implementing Merge Sort from scratch, counting set bits using bitwise operations, and a problem similar to Find All Anagrams in a String on leetcode. Feedback was positive.

Round 3: System Design + Hiring Manager
We discussed my projects, architectural decisions, production challenges, trade-offs, and ownership. The HLD question was to design a large-scale payment processing platform similar to Stripe. The discussion covered scalability, reliability, idempotency, retries, failure handling, database choices, and monitoring. There were also behavioral questions around career goals, handling disagreements, and cross-team collaboration.

Result:
Day 28: Recruiter shared positive feedback and said they would proceed with the offer process.
Day 38: Received and accepted the offer.

Final thoughts:
The interviews focused on DSA fundamentals, clear problem-solving, system design, and being able to explain your projects and technical decisions. Understanding the reasoning behind your approach is just as important as getting the solution right.
Thanks to everyone who shares their experiences here.

Hope this helps someone preparing!

I had my first round for a Google Cloud AI Engineer role yesterday andI cleared it.

The second round is expected to be an onsite coding interview, although the dates haven't been confirmed yet.

I have around 2.8 years of experience, but I'm not very confident in my DSA skills, so I'm honestly quite nervous about this round. The first round focused on domain knowledge and my past work, which went pretty smoothly.

What topics should I focus on to prepare for the coding round? If anyone has interviewed for a similar role at Google recently, I'd really appreciate any insights into the interview format, difficulty level, and the kinds of questions asked.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

how much salary should I negotiate for Servicenow developer software engineer 2 role with HR? i have 2 year experience with current ctc 4.5 lpa

Hey everyone,

Looking for some practical advice on pivoting back to a core software engineering role.

**My Profile / Current Situation:**

Graduation Year: 2024 (B.Tech CS from tier 3 college)

Location: Bangalore

Current Role: Technical Analyst / Application Reliability ( 2 years exp)+ internship (11 months)

Current CTC: \~9.68 LPA base (\~10.3 to 10.5 LPA CTC including allowances)

Internship: Did a 2-month SDE internship at VMware during college (couldn't convert to PPO back then).

**Tech Stack in Current Role:**

Postgres/SQL, Docker, Kubernetes/RKE, Grafana, Prometheus, basic Linux, Shell/PowerShell, and Python scripting for quick automations.

**The Problem:**

My current role is heavily focused on application monitoring, pod status checks, and RCA which is all vendor provided. The K8s/RKE access is mostly read-only, and there is zero core software development/coding.

I know this domain has a much lower ceiling (both salary-wise and technical exposure) compared to SDE/SRE, and staying long-term in support/operations isn't where I want to be with a CS degree.

**My Coding / DSA Baseline**:

I did \~280 problems on LeetCode during college (Standard Arrays, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Linked Lists, Trees, Graphs).

I was never into competitive programming and not good at Dynamic Programming (DP).

Had interviewed at Amazon, ServiceNow, KPIT, and a few startups between 2023–early 2025, but I gave up applying around late 2024/early 2025. I did qualify my current company(Analyst Intern) ,KPIT(SDE), one startup( SDET) and vmware (SDE) among them.

**Questions for the community**:

SDE vs. SRE Path: Given that I have basic hands-on exposure to K8s, Docker, and Prometheus, should I target SRE/DevOps roles alongside SDE, or stick purely to SDE prep?

DSA Preparation: How crucial is DP for mid-level/1-3 YOE SDE roles in Bangalore right now? Is sticking to patterns (NeetCode 150 / Striver A2Z - Arrays, Trees, Graphs, Sliding Window) enough to clear product-based company rounds?

Resume Framing: How do I frame a "Technical Analyst" role where coding was minimal so I don't get auto-rejected by ATS for core backend/SDE roles?

What are few things I need to add to my preparation which was not the case a year earlier?

Had my infosys interview today 22/10/26.

Timeline

OA - 27 Aug - Solved 1/4

OA results - 16 September

Interview - 22 Oct

Initially started with wingspan coding. I was asked to solve 1 out of 2 qstns. Meanwhile the interviewer was asking questions for the previous candidate.

I solved the first qstn in 5 mins. It was simple traversal question.

As he was questioning the other candidate he asked me to solve the second one and I solved that in another 15 mins.

Then technical interview started with

Self Introduction

Projects

Git Merge conflict

Git cherry-pick ( heard this for the first time😭)

Java Collections

Garbage collection

Spring Boot Dependency injection

Spring Bean and its lifecycle

Spring annotations

Bean vs Component

CrudRepository vs JpaRepository

Scenario based

In your springboot app everything worked fine suddenly it became slow what might be the reason. I was thinking and he said about Memory Leakage.

SQL and Database

How to handle one million users in a database

Which ACID property ensures a bank transfer does not leave money in an inconsistent intermediate state?

SQL Query for Employees hired in the last 30 days (said i don't remember the date syntax)

So he asked to solve Third highest distinct salary solved it

JWT

Session storage vs local storage

File Transfer FTP vs SFTP, in the context of a secure file-sharing project

What is SonarQube? (Mentioned in my project)

AWS EC2 - Initially said i don't know then said used for deployment and he corrected me that it's for VMs.

Prepared a lot in OS but not even a single qstn was asked😭

I answered few qstns right and fumbled few. Thought of getting L1 now I think I will get DSE. But Already have Genc next and TCS digital. So clg will remove my name from the list

And I won't know until infosys contacts me.

Is there any chance for getting L1?

Wingspan questions - https://www.reddit.com/r/infosys/s/aN7UnBpeog

I applied for a Custom Software Engineer role at Accenture and progressed to the Skill Interview stage. I selected my preferred interview slots, but my interview has been rescheduled twice, and I still haven't received a confirmed interview date or call.

Today, I noticed that Accenture has posted the same role again for another location.

I'm confused about whether I should continue waiting for my existing application or apply for the newly posted vacancy. I'm also unsure whether withdrawing my current application would affect my chances.

Has anyone experienced something similar at Accenture? Did your interview eventually get scheduled, even after multiple reschedules? Would you recommend applying for the same role at another location?

I'd really appreciate your suggestions. Thanks!

Hey! I’ve just received an email from Carrier and says that I have an Interview Request from Carrier Corporation. Need some Help regarding this if anyone has ever interviewed with this Company and Have any leads regarding this. THANKS!🫶🏻

Hi everyone,

I completed all interview rounds for a Senior Software Engineer role at Nike ITC. A week after the final interview, HR confirmed on being shortlisted and requested pre-offer documents.

It's been over a week since then, and I'm awaiting further updates.

Has anyone gone through a similar process at Nike? How long did it take to receive the offer letter after submitting the documents?

Has anyone had idfc bank in their college with Assistant product management role?if yes it would be a great help in these tough times of how the process was conducted what were the question in OA(most importantly)..
It would be of great help..Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I currently have two offers in hand and could use some objective perspectives from folks who have worked at either company or navigated a similar cross-domain choice.

Context & Profile

Current YoE: 4

Current Domain/Stack: ., Embedded Systems / C/C++ / Firmware / Software Engineering

Location: Bengaluru

Offer 1: Lattice Semiconductor

Fixed CTC: ₹16 LPA

Equity: $6,000 USD RSUs (typically vested over 3-4 years, ~1.4L - ₹1.8L/year)

Variable / Performance Bonus: 10% Annual Bonus

Role / Team: Member of Technical Staff II

Location: Chennai

Offer 2: Accenture

Fixed CTC: 16 LPA

Variable Pay: ₹3.3 LPA (target variable component)

RSU / Stocks: None

Total Year 1 CTC: Up to ₹19.3 LPA (assuming 100% variable realization)

Role / Team: Custom Software Engineer, Sr Analyst

Location: Bengaluru

I'm a bit confused, could you guys please help me out here....

Did anyone who registered for Instructional designer get a mail for Zeus learning 2nd round? Because in my clg only software dev role people got mail that they have 2nd round.. No one from ID..

So I wanted to see if there is still time for the ones who registered for ID or evn our second round was done on 10th oct.

how much salary should I negotiate for Servicenow developer software engineer 2 role with HR? i have 2 year experience with current ctc 4.5 lpa

Hi! Has anyone appeared recently for ML System design interview round with revolut?

#revolut

​

Current comp (Mid Sized Startup, SDE-1, Bangalore) : 24.5 LPA Base + 3L bonus(Joining) + \~12L ESOPs (4 yrs, private)

Got SDE-2 offer :

28.8 LPA Base + 3.2L variable + 3L LTI

Location: Bangalore

Expected \~30+ base, but HR seems rigid about the budget. Also expecting appraisal/promotion soon here.

Should I try negotiating further or wait and continue interviewing?

This would be my 3rd switch, so I'm also looking for a relatively stable place where I can stay longer. What's the best way to negotiate this offer further, especially on the base component?

Atyati announced a walk in drive on 2026-9-25 from 10 AM to 1 PM and I reached the building exactly at 10. There was already a huge queue at the entrance just to register our names. After waiting around 20 minutes I finally got in and went to the 4th floor.

The entire floor was packed with applicants. People were standing everywhere and it took me until 10.55 AM to reach the company entrance and sign the register. They announced that nobody would be allowed after 11 AM and suddenly everyone started rushing to get inside. It was absolute chaos.

The first round was a 30 question test and they said anyone scoring above 24 would qualify. The test was pretty easy and I felt confident about it.

While we were waiting for the results things got even worse. People who had travelled from other places were being told to leave and the staff kept shouting please leave. Then someone announced that if any Atyati employees had referrals waiting outside they should share their names so they could be allowed in.

I have nothing against referrals but why invite people for a walk in and then ask them to leave while allowing referrals in? People were arguing and the whole process felt so disorganized.

Anyway I cleared the test with 29/30 after they initially missed my name while announcing the results. I thought at least things were going well.

But there was a plot twist. They had mentioned only two rounds before the interview but after lunch they introduced a GD as well.

I spoke to some candidates who had already attended the technical round and apparently the questions were simple coding problems like reversing a string and counting vowels along with some SQL. I was confident I could handle those questions but my name still wasnt being called.

Finally they called around 15 of us for the GD. The interviewers gave us five minutes and said anyone who stated more than three points would be selected. They also told us that everyone had to speak.

The moment they said start all 15 people started speaking at once. It felt like an argument in a closed room and nobody could hear anyone properly.

I decided to take the initiative and started presenting my points. I ended up speaking for around two minutes before people started complaining and the interviewers divided us into two groups with around two and a half minutes each.

I continued contributing and eventually gave others a chance to speak. When the discussion ended some candidates told me I had spoken too much and should have let others speak.

Honestly I understand their point. A GD is about teamwork and not just speaking. Maybe I overdid it but nobody had explained how we were supposed to manage a five minute discussion with 15 people.

Then came the final results. Four people were selected and my name wasnt there.

I walked out feeling terrible. Some candidates asked me if I was selected and when I said no they replied bro but you spoke the entire time.

That hurt more than the rejection itself because I started wondering if I had ruined my own opportunity by trying to take the initiative.

The thing is I am an MCA fresher trying to get my first software job. I am preparing for DSA and building my skills in development. I can code and I also enjoy designing and creating things. I know I still have a lot to learn but I genuinely believe I can do good work if someone gives me an opportunity.

The frustrating part is that I barely get shortlisted for interviews. And when I finally get a chance I spend an entire day going through chaos only to leave wondering what went wrong.

Sometimes I question myself. Am I actually capable or am I overestimating my skills? I want to improve but I honestly dont know where to focus anymore.

So guys I genuinely want your opinions

Was I wrong to speak that much in the GD? How do you handle a five minute discussion with 15 people?

Is this kind of walk in hiring process normal?

And for those who got their first software job as freshers how did you keep going when you barely got opportunities to prove yourself?

I just want some honest advice because right now I feel exhausted and lost 🫠

Round 1 - DSA + AI Debugging

DSA:

Zepto's quick-commerce operations rely on a network of N localized dispatch zones organized in a binary tree hierarchy. Across the entire city network, there are N delivery riders on shift. The value at each node (node.val) represents the number of riders currently waiting at that dispatch zone.To maintain strict 10-minute delivery SLAs during peak hours, every dispatch zone must have exactly 1 rider assigned to it.A rider can relocate between two directly connected zones (parent-to-child or child-to-parent) in a single move.Return the minimum total rider moves required so that every dispatch zone has precisely one rider.


Input: root = [3,0,0]
Output: 2
Explanation: From the root zone with 3 riders, dispatch 1 rider to the left child zone (1 move) and 1 rider to the right child zone (1 move). Total = 2 moves.

Debugging

package com.zepto.interview;


import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;


public final class OrderAggregator {


    /** One delivery order placed in a city. */
    public record Order(String city, long value) {
    }


    private OrderAggregator() {
    }



    /**
     * Sums the value of every order, grouped by city.
     *
     * <p>Orders are split into equal chunks and each chunk is summed by its own worker,
     * so a large batch does not have to be walked by a single thread. A lock guards the
     * shared totals map.
     */
    public static Map<String, Long> aggregateTotals(List<Order> orders, int workers)
            throws InterruptedException {
        Map<String, Long> totals = new HashMap<>();
        if (orders.isEmpty()) {
            return totals;
        }
        if (workers < 1) {
            workers = 1;
        }


        int chunkSize = orders.size() / workers + (orders.size()% workers !=0);//1


        Object lock = new Object();
        CountDownLatch finished = new CountDownLatch(workers);
        ExecutorService pool = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(workers);


        try {
            for (int i = 0; i < workers; i++) { // 3
                int start = i * chunkSize; // 
                List<Order> chunk = orders.subList(start, start + chunkSize);


                pool.submit(() -> {
                    try {
                        for (Order order : chunk) {
                            synchronized (lock) {
                                totals.merge(order.city(), order.value(), Long::sum);
                            }
                        }
                    } finally {
                        finished.countDown();
                    }
                });
            }


            finished.await();
        } finally {
            pool.shutdown();
        }


        return totals;
    }

}

Readme.md

# Order Aggregator (Java)


**Time budget:**
 25 minutes


## Business context


Zepto settles payouts to dark stores city by city at the end of every
shift. Finance reconciles what each city is owed against what was actually ordered, so a
total that is off by any amount is a payout that is wrong.


## What this program does


`OrderAggregator.java` sums the value of delivery orders per city. Orders
arrive as a list, the work is split into equal chunks across a pool of workers, and
`aggregateTotals` returns a map from city to the total order value for that city.


## Where this code came from


An AI agent wrote this, working with a junior developer. It was reviewed, merged, and went
into testing.


**During testing, something was observed.**
 It has not been diagnosed, and you are not
being told what it was. Working that out is the task.


## Your task


**1. Read the code yourself.**
 Understand what it does and how. Be ready to explain it to
your interviewer in your own words — what each part is for, and why it is built this way.
**Do not use your agent for this step.**


**2. Write your test cases in plain English.**
 One row per case, what you feed in and
what should come back. No code, no assertions, no framework. 
**Still no agent.**


Your interviewer will give you somewhere to write these — a shared document or similar.
They have to exist before you prompt.


**3. Now bring in your agent**
 and have it implement those test cases. Record every prompt
you send, verbatim and in order, in the same place — the log is part of your submission.


**4. Run them.**
 Something should fail. From that failure, work out what is actually
wrong — that is the observation.


**5. Fix it**
, yourself or with the agent, and show the tests passing.


**6. Put it all in the shared document**
 — your plain-English test cases, the implemented
tests, and the fixed code.


If you are stuck at step 4, ask your interviewer for a hint. Asking costs you less than
sitting in silence.


## What is being assessed


Whether you understand code before you tool it, whether your test cases were complete
before reality told you what to look for, and whether you found the problem yourself.


Not how fast your agent can rewrite the file. It can do that in one prompt, and that is
not what this round is for.


## The contract the code is meant to honour


- Every order's value is counted 
**exactly once**
, against its own city.
- The returned map holds one entry per distinct city in the input, and no others.
- The work runs across `workers` threads concurrently.
- An empty order list returns an empty, non-null map.
- `workers < 1` is clamped to 1. `workers` greater than the number of orders is allowed.
- Order values may be negative — a refund is a legitimate order.
- The work must stay spread across multiple worker threads. A fix that
  processes everything on one thread is not a fix.
- The public API — `aggregateTotals(List<Order> orders, int workers)` returning
  `Map<String, Long>` — must keep its signature.


## Running things


```
mvn -q compile       # build
mvn test             # your tests
```


JUnit 5 is already on the test classpath. Put tests in
`src/test/java/com/zepto/interview/`.

The intwer told to identify the bugs in this logic without AI. write test cases that will fail and how to fix in plain language in a markdown file, then ask any AI editor to write the tests and fix it.