Liminal Interview Experience (On-Campus)

“Navigating Through a Unique Interview Experience”

My interview journey kicked off with an interesting online test. It had questions about JavaScript, AI/ML, and C programming. It was quite a challenge. Only after I passed this test did I move on to the first interview round.

First Round:

The first round was far from ordinary. It felt like a good story, with questions about tricky stuff like Hashmaps and multithreading in a decentralized system. We also talked about Redis technology and the projects from my resume. It made the conversation even more interesting.

Questions asked were:

1. Time complexity, of HashMap’s.
2. How can we make a distributed high-performance Queue, with the help of HashMap, where many users are trying to access it, (I mentioned about CAP theorem here)?
3. He asked about the architecture of Redis Queue.
4. Then some discussion on blockchain, like
   • What is blockchain?
   • How it works?
   • Why do we call it a ledger?
   • What are smart contracts?
   • How blockchain is created? (I answered with the help of Data Mining).

Second Round:

After passing the first round, I went to the second round.

It started with me introducing myself, and we discussed my resume projects, now in this round interviewer was interested in my coursework projects.

Questions asked were:

1. What are Remote Procedural Calls, how it is better than REST APIs, and what are the technical challenges that will be there to implement RPC?
2. Then he asked questions on my project on Codebreaking using intelligent Differential attacks, like how I approached to the solution of breaking the cryptographic algorithms (RSA and Vigenère cipher).
3. At last, he asked about my education gap and what I did during that gap, I said, I did gate preparation for 2 years, and justified my decision, he was quite satisfied with my answers.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get a call for the HR round, but the experience was memorable. It was a journey with challenges and excitement, a unique interview experience that pushed my knowledge boundaries and left me feeling satisfied.”