Motive | | Rejected At Hld - Motive | Interview Experiences

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Interviewed at Motive for SDE 2 role. Cleared all rounds except the final HLD round which led to rejection. Focused on DSA, machine coding, and system design.

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Interviewed at Motive for SDE 2 role. The process started with a hiring manager round, which focused on my background and technical depth. Then, I moved to the technical/DSA round where I solved two LeetCode problems. The third round was another technical/DSA round with two more problems. The fourth round was a machine coding task where I designed an API for deprecated cars. Finally, the fifth round was a High Level Design (HLD) round where I designed TikTok, which was the bottleneck leading to rejection.

Interview Questions (5)

Group Anagrams

Data Structures & AlgorithmsMedium

Solved using a Hashmap with sorted strings as keys.

Search a 2D Matrix II

Data Structures & AlgorithmsMedium

Efficiently searching a row-wise and column-wise sorted matrix ($O(m + n)$ approach).

Contiguous Array

Data Structures & AlgorithmsMedium

Finding the maximum length of a contiguous subarray with an equal number of 0s and 1s (Prefix Sum + Hashmap).

Palindrome Permutation II

Data Structures & AlgorithmsHard

Generate all palindromic permutations of a string. Used a frequency map and backtracking.

Minimum Swaps to Group All 1's Together II

Data Structures & AlgorithmsHard

Focused on the sliding window approach for a circular array.

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