Summary
I successfully received an offer for an SDE1 backend role at Zeta (Directi) after an online interview process. The experience included a DSA and problem-solving round, followed by a technical and fitment round which covered project deep dives and behavioral questions.
Full Experience
Status: ✅ Offer Role: Software Development Engineer1- backend (SDE1) Experience Level: 1year 9 months Mode: Online Location Preference: Bangalore
Round 1 – DSA + Problem Solving (60 mins) Platform: Teams and their coding platform
Duration: ~60 minutes Interviewer: [1 Engineer from Zeta]
Questions:
- Minimum Window Substring
Difficulty: Medium-Hard
Solved using optimal approach in first go.
Discussed time and space complexity
- Some mathematical question(was based on binary search approach)
Difficulty: Hard
Discussed time and space complexity
Dry run + edge cases + present working solution.
Verdict: Strong Hire
Round 2 – Tech + Fitment Round(50–60 mins) Platform: Teams Interviewer: Engineering Manager
Discussion Areas:
Past project experience (deep dive into architecture and decisions made)
Challenges faced and how you resolved them
Deep dived into Scenario based reasoning for 30 mins, figuring all possibilities and finding optimal solution.
Behavioral Questions:
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Why Zeta?
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Ready for relocation?
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Your strategy to understand code base you didn't work on?
Verdict: Selected
Interview Questions (4)
The problem asks to find the minimum window substring within a given string S that contains all the characters of another string T.
Behavioral question: Why do you want to work at Zeta?
Behavioral question: Are you ready for relocation?
Behavioral question: What is your strategy to understand a codebase you didn't work on?