Discovery Interview Experience for SDE Intern 2022

Round – 1: Coding Round – In this round there were 25 questions, 5 needed to be recorded with video with includes general HR question like your intro, why you want to join, why you will be an assets, which technologies/ framework you know. The another set of 20 questions includes mcqs on DSA. If you are good in your prep then it’s easy to crack this round. Be confident while speaking.

Round – 2: (Technical Round) – The interviewer were very chill and made me comfortable to adopt the coding environment. Round started with general discussion on my intro followed by a coding question. I need to first tell the strategy and code it for the same taking care for all the edge cases. I remembered the question in vague but it was like you are given n = 1000, stream of popular tv shows, and out of those 1000 shows for every m seconds where m <= 10^5 , you need to tell the top k shows where k <= 10^5.  You can use the combination of min heap and unordered map to solve the question. Please have a look at the constraints as your solution should be of complexity 1 sec. I was able to solve the question in the same asked complexity.

Round – 3: (Hiring Manager Round) – The interviewer was extra chill and awesome. She asked me about my previous interview and how it went, and the major discussion for this round revolved around the project. She asked the depth of the projects, so you need to have the good knowledge of your projects. Be calm and cool for this round. 

Round – 4: (People & Culture Round) – This interview was more often the HR round, you will be grilled on your strength and weaknesses. Be confident to tell about yourself. You can be asked puzzle in this round. 

Verdict : Selected