Alpha Law | Full stack engineer | Rejected
Summary
I applied for a Full Stack Engineer role at Alpha Law, completed a take‑home assignment and a review round, but was rejected because my solution lacked a proper code walk‑through and scaling considerations.
Full Experience
Company: Alpha Law Role: Full stack engineer
Current Org: Small Startup College: Tier-1 YOE: 8+ Current Comp: 60L Base + 5L Bonus + 20L ESOPs per year (will not materialize to any value)
Round 1 - Screening call Normal call with HR on projects.
Take home assignment Build a chat based google workspace assistant, that can answer queries based on search across mail, calendar, drive. Can send mails and schedule events and other actions also.
Round 2 - Assignment review
- How to scale arch to 1M users
- Proper code walk through
Verdict: Reject in this round, as assignment was mostly vibe coded, did not have proper code walk idea.
Interview Questions (1)
Scaling architecture to 1M users
Discuss approaches to scale the system architecture to support one million users.