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Summary
I applied on the careers portal for Abode, went through four rounds including DSA, System Design, Hiring Manager, and Director rounds. Despite solving DSA and having good discussions in initial rounds, the director round did not go well, and I was ultimately rejected.
Full Experience
YOE: 4.5 Applied on careers portal, recruiter reached out directly for a Drive and informed they'll take 3 rounds on the same day based on feedbacks of each round & final round with director will be scheduled on some other day. Each round was for an hour.
Round 1: DSA 2 questions were asked which I had to code on my own IDE and run with custom inputs. 1st question was a medium sliding window question & 2nd was a medium binary tree question. Solved both within 30 mins. Interviewer then asked another hard binary tree question & just asked for the approach. Then some discussion on LFU. Self verdict: Strong Hire Received positive feedback & 2nd round was scheduled in next hour
Round 2: DSA + System Design The interviewer shared a hackerrank link with a DSA question. It was a medium question, which can be done with & without stack as well(balanced parenthesis variation). All testcases passed then we moved on to System design where she asked to design Goodreads. Main focus was on relationship between entities & db schemas & querying. Had a good discussion but we ran out of time. Lastly she asked few scenario based question on multithreading which were easy. Self verdict: Hire
Hiring manager round was scheduled within the next 15 mins. Round 3: Hiring Manager This round also went on for an hour. Discussed previous projects, challenges, tradeoffs. Some behavioural questions. This round also went well.
Self Verdict: Hire/ Strong Hire
Recruiter then reached out that they've scheduled the last round with director late in the evening (7 to 8). Even though I was exhausted I went ahead with it.
Round 4: Director This round did not go as expected at all. Director joined & directly jumped on to questions without even introduction. The questions were not behavioural nor something I was prepared for, they were mostly on experiences like what do you see when you review a PR/Design document. I could not make up the answers at that time so I answered honestly whatever came to my mind based on my experience but he did not seem satisfied & even smirked for few of the answers that I gave. In depth discussion on RabbitMQ, interal working & mostly on handling failures. I explained everything like requeue,retries,deadletter queues etc. but he kept on following up with what if this also fails. After a point I went blank for few questions. Last 5 mins he asked expectations & some basic behavioural questions.
Final verdict: Rejected Tried reaching out to the recruiter for feedback but they are not responding.
Other interview experience: https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/6956018/servicenow-interview-experience-ic-2-gho-l93i/
Interview Questions (5)
Discussion on LFU cache, likely its internal workings, data structures, and eviction policy.
A medium-difficulty DSA question which can be solved with or without a stack, related to balancing parentheses.
Design Goodreads, with main focus on relationship between entities & DB schemas & querying.
Questions about my experience reviewing Pull Requests and Design Documents, specifically what I look for or consider.
In-depth discussion on RabbitMQ, its internal workings, and specifically how to handle failures. Follow-up questions focused on what-if scenarios when existing failure handling mechanisms (requeue, retries, dead-letter queues) also fail.