Moneyview SDE 2 Interview Experience | 3 YOE | Rejected
Summary
I interviewed for an SDE 2 role at Moneyview with 3 years of backend experience, completed a DSA + CS fundamentals round, but was rejected after the first technical round.
Full Experience
Moneyview SDE 2 Interview Experience | 3 YOE | Rejected
I recently interviewed for an SDE 2 role at Moneyview with around 3 years of backend development experience. Since I could not find many interview experiences online while preparing, I decided to share mine to help future candidates.
Round 1 - DSA + CS Fundamentals (60 Minutes)
The interview started directly with few computer science fundamentals followed by two coding questions.
Question 1
A variation of LeetCode 78 (Subsets).
I was able to come up with the brute force/backtracking solution and discuss its complexity. However, I could not derive the most optimal approach expected by the interviewer.
Question 2
K-th Minimum Element in a BST.
Again, I was able to explain the straightforward solution but struggled to arrive at the optimal approach during the interview. The expected solution involved utilizing the BST properties along with inorder traversal.
CS Fundamentals Questions
- What is Garbage Collection?
- What is the difference between
malloc()andcalloc()?
Result
Rejected after the first technical round. I hope this helps future candidates preparing for Moneyview interviews.
Interview Questions (2)
Subsets (LeetCode 78) Variation
Given a set of distinct integers, return all possible subsets (the power set). The interview asked for a variation of this classic subsets problem.
K-th Minimum Element in a BST
Find the k-th smallest element in a binary search tree. The expected solution leverages the in‑order traversal property of BSTs to retrieve elements in sorted order.