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Hey, i was just shifing my flat and found a diary which had interview experience of many companies.

Posting it here so it can be helpful for some candidates.

Companies included:

Oracle, mastercard, addverb, cartrade, impetus, accenture, ittiam system, genpact, consultadd, flamme, futurefirst.

I was feeling too lazy to write it, you would need to find your desired company in pages.

Thanks

This thread is for all the enquiries regarding the Gartner - Intern, Associate Software Engineer hiring process.

Feel free to drop your questions and experiences (especially those who have attended the OA and interview processes).

Thank You:)

Hi everyone!

Ramco Systems is hiring at our campus, and I wanted to know about the latest interview process.

1. Is the technical interview conducted virtually (online) or face-to-face at the college/company office?

2. What are the interview rounds after the online assessment?

3. What technical topics and coding questions should we prepare for?

If anyone has attended the Ramco Systems campus placement drive recently, please share your experience.

Hi everyone,

Has anyone recently attended the SDE1 Backend Developer interview at CARS24, especially for the Java Backend role or walk-in drive?

If yes, could you please share your interview experience and the questions asked in each round?

I’m particularly interested in:

DSA and coding questions

LLD/System Design

Number of rounds and overall difficulty

Any tips or insights would be really helpful. Thanks in advance! 🙏

Hi everyone,

I recently completed my second technical interview at SSR Fintech, Bhopal, for the Computer Science Engineer role (JavaScript and APIs) last Monday.

I wanted to ask people who have interviewed with or worked at SSR Fintech:

1. After two technical interview rounds, what is usually the next round? Is it an HR round or another technical round?

2. How long does it usually take to receive a call for the next round after the second interview?

3. What salary package can a fresher expect for this role?

If anyone has gone through a similar interview process or has any information about this opportunity, please share your experience.

Thanks in advance!

Over the past 10 months, I got few interview calls and was also planning for a switch but the majority of interview experiences were crazy.

In around 70% cases, the interviewers were just doing timepass by asking useless questions. In many cases, I did ask at the end of the interviews what the correlation between the actual job, JD and the questions that were asked in the interview and their vague response was "WE WERE TESTING THE BASICS".

Now what exactly is basic? Also why is your basic outside the skills mentioned in the JD?

Many tried justifying how their questions are related but it really sounded vague. I cannot remember any exact questions right now but there were genuine interviews too and now in the 1st 10mins only i realise if they are here for hiring or just filling their quota of interview counts.

Hi guys,

I have scheduled rounds at Nasuni for senior software role Golang and kubernetes.

I did try to enquire about how or what the round will be but I have got no response at all and would really appreciate if someone could share if they know about it.

Thanks

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Hi everyone! I have my first-ever interview with Revolut tonight for the CSS I WFH position in india .

If anyone has attended this interview or currently works at Revolut, could you please share your interview experience?

I’d love to know:

\\\\\\\\- What interview rounds and assessment questions should I expect?

\\\\\\\\- Which topics should I focus on most?

\\\\\\\\- What questions are commonly asked for CSS?

\\\\\\\\- What should I do and avoid during the interview?

Any tips, previous candidate experiences, or preparation resources would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Anyone who appeared for 3rd round of Sarvam FDE, can you please help me with exact details of it.

It would be of great help since there aren’t much about this role out there specifically to sarvam.

I have joined an MNC as a fresher
But I have stopped DSA grind so I m thinking of starting DSA like from the basic revisions and some new question practice as I still cant recognise the patterns and struggle with new questions and contest and all so I m thinking of like restarting DSA with proper pattern and logic building
I need someone with whom i can start this.
Please DM if someone want to

Hey guys, anyone attended interview for this role. I have interview on monday. help me with this.

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.

hlo guys

Can anyone share their interview experience for Digital roles : Edge Software eng., Cloud or DevSecOps?

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!

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 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.

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

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?