Fox Corporation | Software Enginner L2 Backend | Interview Experience | Rejected

Interview Experience - Fox Corporation (SDE2)

Role: SDE2
Source: Referral

Round 1: DSA

• Format: 2 Questions
• Experience: The interviewer was very helpful.
• Question 1: Given the level order of a binary tree, construct a binary tree.
• Question 2: Validate Binary Search Tree.

Round 2: LLD

• Problem: LLD on Splitwise.
• Experience: The interviewer participated very actively and asked questions throughout the design and implementation. Due to time constraints, he was okay with pseudo-code.
• Outcome: At the end, he was satisfied with my design and the pseudo-code.

Round 3: HLD

• Scheduled Duration: 1 Hour
• Actual Duration: 30 Minutes
• Experience:
  • The interviewer joined the meeting 20 minutes late and looked uninterested.
  • Asked about previous role responsibilities and to sketch a high-level architecture.
  • 10 minutes into the interview, just as I drew some components, he cut me off to jump back to the problem statement.
• Problem Statement: How would the home page API response look for apps like Flipkart?
• Discussion: I provided many answers concentrating on the data layer. However, the interviewer was expecting an answer based on server-directed UI rendering.
• Outcome: I did not have experience with that specific framework for web and mobile apps. 15 minutes into this, he was done with the interview.
• Final Thoughts: Absolute waste of time. I concentrated on HLD for live and video streaming since Fox is video-streaming based and many other standard HLD questions, but nothing happened there. Don't waste candidates' time by concentrating on a specific framework in a 30-minute window when the round was scheduled for an hour.