Blogvault

Role: Software Development Engineer (Likely)

College: Not Specified

Interview Date: December 2020

Interview Type: On-Campus

Result: Selected

Difficulty: Not Specified

Rounds: 6 rounds

Topics Asked: Data Structures, Algorithms, Sorts, Puzzles, Tree Traversals, String Coding Questions, Projects

Experience:

BlogVault conducted an on-campus recruitment drive in December 2020.

Round 1: Online Coding Round
This round was 2 hours long and conducted on the Interviewbit platform, featuring three questions. Candidates who completed 2 or more questions were shortlisted. The coding questions were:

• A number of subsequences of the form a^i b^j c^k.
• Predicting whether traveling to treasure within a grid from the current position in k turns is true or not.
• Choosing the 2 roads that need to be closed from M roads between N villages to ensure maximum kingdom happiness.

Round 2: Technical Interview (Telephonic/Video Chat)
Around 15 students advanced to this round. Questions were asked regarding Sorts, puzzles, tree traversals, and string coding questions to achieve a certain outcome (e.g., reverse string, reverse each word of string, count all characters of the string and return each character with count) without using STL. Efficient solutions and the least complexity were appreciated.

Round 3: Not Specified
Around 13 students reached this round. Details of the round are not explicitly mentioned in the provided snippet.

Round 4: Live Coding Round (Coderpad.io)
11 students reached this round. A coding environment (coderpad.io) was provided for a string-based question with test cases, to be solved within 1 hour. Questions were asked on the logic used. Those whose maximum test cases ran successfully passed this round. The question was described as challenging and difficult. The language chosen for coding was highly influential in how the final code would turn out.

Round 5: Not Specified
5 students reached this round. Details of the round are not explicitly mentioned as a separate round, but it led into Round 6.

Round 6: Founder's Round
This round involved a rigorous talk on the code from Round 4 and projects done in college life with the founder of the company.

Final Results: From the 5 candidates, 3 were selected for 6M+FTE (6 months internship + Full-Time Employment), while 1 was selected for 6M (6 months internship).