SDE
Interview Date
—
Result
Selected
Difficulty
Medium
Rounds
3 rounds
Drive Type
Off-Campus (Referral)
Topics asked
Detailed experience
College: Not Specified
Interview Date: Not Specified
Interview Type: Off-Campus (Referral)
Result: Selected
Difficulty: Medium
Rounds: 3 rounds
Topics Asked: Data Structures and Algorithms, Java-based questions, System Design, Techno-Managerial
The candidate interviewed for an SDE role at Pine Labs, with 2.5 years of experience, through an off-campus referral. The preparation focused on Data Structures and Algorithms for 1.5 years, using resources like Codechef, Leetcode, GFG, and Striver's SDE sheet. There were three virtual, eliminatory rounds, each scheduled for 45 minutes.
Round 1:
This round included two DSA questions and several Java-based questions.
Round 2:
This round was based on system design. The candidate was asked to "design a Service to shorten a URL".
Round 3: Techno-Managerial Round
This round was with a very senior person. The question posed was: "You are a freelancer who does projects for clients and seeks money from them in return. Key points for you are: At a time you can take one project only. Once you take a project you will have to finish it before taking another one. Can't work on 2 projects simultaneously. Can't work partially. Irrespective of time and effort you charge an equal amount for all the projects. Given the start and end times along with the name of the project, you have to extract the biggest subset of the project such that none of them overlap." This question was based on the activity selection problem, and the candidate used the same approach to solve it. The candidate had to write the entire working code and demo the output on an online IDE.
The verdict for this experience was "Selected".