💼 Interview Experience at LG Ad Solutions formerly Alphonso — Software Engineer II Role

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Software Engineer II2.5 years
July 22, 20252 reads

Summary

I interviewed for a Software Engineer II role at LG Ad Solutions (formerly Alphonso). The process included two technical rounds focusing on DSA, LLD, and project discussion, but I was ultimately rejected after failing to clear the initial rounds.

Full Experience

🗓️ Timeline

  • Application Submitted: Through Referral from Friend.
  • Interview Rounds: 2
  • Final Outcome: Rejected

📜 Background

  • Current role at Société Générale as a Software Engineer
  • College : Tier-II
  • Years of experience and tech stack: 2.5 Yrs in Java Backend.
  • Salary Expected: 25 LPA

Recruiter called me and scheduled F2F interview.

🧠 Round-Wise Breakdown

🧪 Technical Interview 1:

Thoughts: Discussed Brute force approach for the first question but couldn't optimize it. Solved the the second questions optimally.

🧪 Technical Interview 2:

  • Do a LLD of a Shopping cart with differnt discount coupons available on both at item level and cart level.
  • Thoughts: This round went quite well i was able to come up with a good design for the cart on the whiteboard.

🙌 Final Thoughts: Overall a good learning experience, Interviewers were quite nice. There was a third HLD round as well which was not taken as i couldn't clear first two rounds.

Interview Questions (2)

Q1
Find Bottom Left Tree Value
Data Structures & Algorithms

Problem statement at the provided link.

Q2
Shopping Cart Low-Level Design
System Design

Do a LLD of a Shopping cart with differnt discount coupons available on both at item level and cart level.

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