Expedia SDE-2 — full loop (OA, coding, LLD, HM); ghosted then reject
Online Assesment: - 3 question solved all(1 easy , 1 medium , 1 medium) all were leetcode questions.
round1 (coding round): - got scheduled after 4 days of OA , after our intros he told me i am not looking for coding only want Code for hashfunction and equal function ...wrote both 5 line code in 2 mins and explained him the approach(its also not a code just genrating hashcode and comparing current object with instance ) then he gave me a simplle 2 pointer problem (palindorme )lol solved in 1 min and wrote code in 1 min then he told me i am done till now only 25 mins were passed!! i asked why its is so ? he told you have another coding round also that's why and the interviewer also told i am not much intrested in coding (dude then why was this round described as coding round ? ).
round 2 (coding round): - was scheduled later in evening . after intros he gave me a simple 3 sum problem (gave him brute force as well as pointer solutions). then he gave me a lld problem solved it with care following solid principles .(this round went well)
round 3 ( lld round) with director scheduled after 2 days : - interviewer had almost around 15 yoe i joined on time at 11:00 am ... no one was there in call .. after 15 mins he joined and told sorry for the delay , let me just switch on my laptop and setup .... he joined back in 1 min .. then he told let me just go through your resume .. okayy!! he went complete numb for almost 20 mins and in my mind i was like wth is happening over here? then suddenly he told me i am done!! (in mind mere to L lag gaye hahahaha) do u have any questions ? ofcourse i said yes .. i asked few questions regarding his current project and the team i was interviewing for .. he answered the conversation started and i was able to drove conversations to my side . he asked me about my recent project .. i explained him a hld of my project then he asked me about database i told him we are using sql(i wrote the schema as well as the queries ) then he told i am not aware of database(what ???? dude who made u a director funny part is later on i visited his linkedin profile he was senior architect also !! man if u are a engineer everything revolves around data only and u r not aware complete shittttt!!) .
later on 10 mins were left he gave me a simple leetcode trie based question .. i explained my brute force approach then went for trie solution .. he was not aware of trie i explained him about trie data structure and how it can be usefull over here? but stilll
i could just look into his face he didn't wanted that solution (so what was he expecting then ? that's also a mystery )
Round 4(hiring manger round): - after intros , went for normal hm questions and then talked about kafka , some java 8 features then interview gave me fibonacii series question i explained my approach frrom brute force to caching (sub optimal problem dp). interviewer seems satisfied .
Result : -
waited for a 1 month even mailed hr multiple time . no response from them . After 1.5 month a genric mail u were rejected (lol) .
Am not preparing for companies just wanted to test if i am worthy or not ( lol am not hahahaha ) ..
coding :- solve atmost 2-3 problems daily (mostly medium ) somtimes hard.
LC Count : e: 125 m :456 : h 114 = 695 (Also it doesn't matter try to look for pattern there are max to max 50 patterns if u get command over it u can easily solve leetcode but first try to improve your basics first (tree , graph , linkedlist , dp , segmenttree , avl , trie , Binary search(min max problems ) ) these are most important ones's...
GOOD LUCK!!
LLD : - my current company helped me a lot in it sometimes i visit discuss sections for new questions
HLD :- follow Alex xu both editions and some company blogs and medium articles .
Currently working in faang !!
Thanks for rejection .. if i was selected same generic mail would have been gone from mine side also
The loop · 5 rounds
3 questions (easy + medium + medium), all LeetCode-style.
Coding round; hashCode/equals implementation and a two-pointer palindrome. Interviewer said he was not interested in coding.
Coding round; 3-sum (brute force + two pointers) and an LLD problem solved with SOLID principles.
LLD round with a director; discussed HLD of candidate project, SQL schema/queries, and a Trie-based problem.
Behavioral plus discussion on Kafka, Java 8 features, and a Fibonacci (DP/memoization) problem.