Meesho Open Campus Recruitment Experience (Off-campus)

Applied on HackerEarth for the Open campus recruitment process and got shortlisted (based on resume ig) for the OA.

OA (2 hour and 45 min)

Got 3 medium (upper level) to hard questions. Was able to solve 1 question completely and 2 partially. (Can't share the exact questions)

1. Find a subsequence with length k and min score.
2. Tree based multiple BFS question.
3. Difficult graph based question.

Selected for the virtual interview process. Each round was an elimination round (i was told this in the official mail) and was hosted on google meet.

During the start of each round the interviewer introduced himself and was asked to do the same. So am not repeating this detail in each round individually.

Round 1 (DSA based - 30 min)

Only one question was asked and was told the write pseudocode for it in the google doc provided.

1. Multi source BFS problem.

Got call for the 2nd round.

Round 2 (LLD based - 60 min)

Hacker rank's codepair platform was used, which provides a way to do pair programming (multiple people running or writing code on the same file).

Was told that i would be judged on the completeness of the code and then based on the quality/cleanliness and use of OOPs and design patterns in my code.

1. Was asked to implement 6 functions for a shopping manager service.

Cleared all the doubts about requirements in the first 15 mins and then got to implementation. Was under time pressure so couldn't give too much time to design since the first and foremost requirement was a working code, still did my best to make it as lossely coupled as possible, while handling all the edge cases which came to my mind as well as choosing the most efficient ways to implement different functions (time complexity wise). Took around 60-65 mins

Than discussed about the code with the interviewer and ran it.

Went above the time limit by a bit, but couldn't have implemented it faster.

Got call for the 3rd round.

Round 3 (Hiring Manager based - 30 min)

1. Got asked about my project and role in internship.
2. Was asked to give a demo of one of the projects on my resume.
3. Got asked some questions on OS fundamentals about mutex, semaphore, deadlock, etc.
4. Was asked about my inclination towards a role, like backend or frontend, etc.
5. A scaling question related to network.

At the end of the previous round as well as this round, I asked some questions about the work they do and was impressed by the quality and scale of work available at meesho. It definetely changed the image about meesho and other young startups i had in my mind and motivates me to want to work in them.

Edit : Got rejected