Tekion || Ghosted || WTF
Summary
I interviewed with Tekion for an SDE-1 role, facing a problem-solving round with Java/Spring Boot questions and two coding challenges: string abbreviation and Word Break. Unfortunately, I was ghosted by HR after the first round, preventing further interview stages.
Full Experience
Recently, I interviewed with Tekion for an SDE-1 Role. The first round focused on Problem Solving. I was asked some questions on Java and Spring Boot. Following that, I tackled a coding question about string abbreviation (e.g., if s="AKNS", then abbr="A2S" is a valid abbreviation).
The third question was the classic Word Break problem. I managed to answer all the questions, though I needed a small hint from the interviewer to arrive at the optimal approach for Word Break.
The second and third rounds were scheduled to be for Low-Level Design (LLD) and Hiring Manager (HM) discussions, but I was unfortunately ghosted by HR; they stopped picking up calls and responding to emails. This experience, especially after being laid off, made the job search process quite exhaustive.
Interview Questions (2)
Given a string s and an abbreviation abbr, determine if abbr is a valid abbreviation of s. For example, if s = "AKNS", then abbr = "A2S" is a valid abbreviation. The abbreviation can contain numbers representing consecutive skipped characters.