Target Engineer L4 | Interview Exp | Face 2 Face

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Engineer L4Bangalore2 years
June 30, 20255 reads

Summary

I interviewed for an Engineer L4 position at Target's Bangalore office. I had two years of experience and went through three rounds: Fullstack, System Design/Problem Solving, and Hiring Manager. Despite clearing all rounds, I was rejected due to a lack of Java/SpringBoot experience, as my background was primarily Node.js+Ts and Golang.

Full Experience

All the rounds happened in single day face to face at there banglore office

Current Comp: 16.5 in a startup based in banglore
current YOE: 2
Tech stack: MERN + Golang

1st Fullstack round
- Basic DSA on pen and paper
- Basic React questions on hooks, states, redux
- Backend questions on httpcode, cache, streaming
- question on mongo aggretation pipeline and postgres query
- Discussion based on resume

2nd round System design and Problem solving
- Asteroid collision variant (solved via stack)
- A question on binary search
- LLD on billing software of Vending machine

3rd Round Hiring Manager round
- Basic questions on scaling systems in production
- General leadership question and non tech


After clearing all the rounds they rejected me stating lack of java , springboot exp as i mostly worked in Node.js+Ts and golang in my backend, HR tried to match my profile with other teams but no resp after that

Interview Questions (2)

Q1
Asteroid Collision Variant
Data Structures & AlgorithmsMedium

A variant of the Asteroid Collision problem (LeetCode 735), which was solved using a stack.

Q2
LLD for Vending Machine Billing Software
System Design

Design the Low-Level Design (LLD) for the billing software of a Vending Machine.

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