Summary
I successfully interviewed for an SDE-1 position at Globalization Partners in Bangalore, India, and received an offer, which I ultimately chose to decline.
Full Experience
My interview process for the SDE-1 role at Globalization Partners in Bangalore, India, involved four distinct rounds.
The first HR phone screen, lasting 30 minutes, focused on an introduction to G-P and understanding its mission and the problems it aims to solve.
A second HR phone screen, an hour long, delved into the company culture.
The third round was a 1-hour coding challenge. I was asked a problem involving finding a unique element in an array where all other elements appear twice, with two specific cases: one where elements could be in any order, and another where identical elements were always grouped together. I discussed solutions involving a HashMap for the first case and binary search for the second, even providing a C++ implementation for the latter.
Finally, the managerial round, also 1 hour, involved questions about my career journey, my reasons for considering G-P, and whether I would choose G-P over other potential offers.
Ultimately, I was selected and received an offer, but I decided to decline it.
Interview Questions (1)
Given an array of elements, where all the elements appear two time except one element. Find the element that appears only one time.
Case 1: Elements in array can appear in any order.
Case 2: Same elements are always together.