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Role: SDE(UI) Internship + FTE

College: Not Specified (7.0 GPA cutoff mentioned)

Interview Date: July 23, 2025 (Date as per source, please note this is a future date)

Interview Type: On-Campus, Internship + Full-Time

Result: Rejected

Difficulty: Medium

Rounds: 4 rounds

Topics Asked: Psychometric, Technical MCQs (OS, DBMS, CN), Quantitative Aptitude, Coding (Dynamic Programming, Hashmaps), Projects, Puzzles, Data Structures, Algorithms (Recursion, Friends Pairing Problem, Find Peak Element), System Design (E-Commerce website)

Experience:

The interview process for an SDE(UI) Internship + FTE role was conducted on-campus and consisted of four rounds.

Round 1: Psychometric Test

This round had 50 questions to be completed in 12 minutes.

Round 2: Online Assessment

It included 10 Technical MCQs (OS, DBMS, CN), 10 Quantitative Aptitude MCQs, and 2 coding questions.

• Coding Question 1: Minimum number of 1s that are needed to express a positive number in terms of special number (a number consisting only of 1s, e.g., 1, -11, 111). This resembled a Coin Change problem with negative coins.
• Coding Question 2: A simple hashmap question.

The candidate cleared this round along with 46 others.

Technical Interview - I

This round lasted about 30 minutes.

• "Tell me about yourself."
• Summary of the most recent project.
• Puzzle Question: Print a sequence without using a loop (Input: 16, Output: 16 11 6 1 -4 1 6 11 16). Hint: Use recursion.
• Pairing Problem: Similar to "Friends Pairing Problem". The candidate struggled with this.
• Find Peak Element: The candidate was asked to solve this problem.

The candidate was rejected despite good DSA skills, possibly due to not solving one question completely.

Technical Interview - II (Design Round)

This round, as described by a friend who cleared the previous round, involved a design question to design an E-Commerce website.

Questions included: "If a user hasn't logged in and wants to buy a product, how would you redirect him?"

The overall experience was challenging, leading to rejection.