Cardekho

Role: Full Stack Web Developer

College: Not Specified

Interview Date: July 2023

Interview Type: Full-Time

Result: Implied Rejected (Negative experience)

Difficulty: Hard

Rounds: Not explicitly defined, but a single extensive technical interview session.

Topics Asked: .NET Core, React (State, Redux, Lazy Loading, Routing, Hooks, Async), SQL Server, GIT, Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA), System Design

Experience:

This candidate interviewed for a Full Stack Web Developer position. The interview was described as a grueling session where the interviewer "drilled" on a wide range of topics.

The technical discussion covered:

• Backend Technologies: .NET Core and SQL Server.
• Frontend Technologies: React, including questions on state management, Redux (candidate admitted limited experience but provided a brief explanation), lazy loading, and routing. The interviewer reportedly expressed disappointment that the candidate used functional components and hooks instead of class components for a React coding task.
• Version Control: GIT.
• Data Structures and Algorithms: A coding problem involved finding palindrome substrings of even and odd lengths and returning their counts in an array. The candidate solved this within about 15 minutes.
• Live Coding: Writing code to fetch data from a mock URL using React, where the candidate used Axios, hooks, and async/await.
• System Design: The candidate felt overwhelmed and admitted inability to proceed with the system design questions.

Overall Experience: The candidate found the experience disheartening due to the interviewer's feedback style. The interviewer criticized the candidate for taking a few seconds to think before responding and expressed disappointment over the use of functional React components. Despite answering most questions correctly and solving a coding problem, the experience was largely negative, suggesting a rejection or a very difficult interview environment.