LeadSquared

Role: Software Developer

College: IS College of Technology

Interview Date: Mid-September (Interview process took 15-17 days)

Interview Type: On-Campus

Result: Selected

Difficulty: Not Specified

Rounds: 4 rounds

Topics Asked: Aptitude (Quant, Visual Reasoning), Data Structures and Algorithms (Heap, Priority Queue, Recursion, Trees), Operating Systems (Multi-threading, Synchronization tools, Mutex, Semaphore), SQL (Indexes, disadvantages of indexes), Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, DBMS.

Experience:

The candidate, Ritik Shast, from IS College of Technology, was placed in LeadSquared as a Software Developer through an on-campus opportunity that took place around mid-September and the entire hiring process lasted 15-17 days.

Round 1 (Aptitude): This round focused heavily on reasoning, particularly visual reasoning, along with quantitative aptitude.

Round 2 (Coding Round 1): This round had three questions, and candidates needed to solve at least two to pass. One question was related to heaps, and there was a general DSA question.

Round 3 (Coding Interview 1 - DSA Round): This was a coding interview where the interviewer gave one question based on heaps, requiring the use of a priority queue to solve it.

Round 4 (Coding Interview 2): This was another coding interview where the interviewer presented a problem to be solved within 30 minutes. The problem involved employees with names, age, importance values, and subordinates. Given an array of employees and an employee ID, the task was to return the importance value of that employee and all their subordinates. The candidate solved this problem using recursion, which was described as a kind of tree question. Following the coding problem, questions were asked on Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and DBMS, focusing on core subjects like the use and disadvantages of indexes in SQL, and OS concepts like multi-threading, synchronization tools (mutex, semaphore).