Interview Experiences

Two DSA rounds focused on graphs and DP, one system design lite, and a Googleyness round. The trick was talking through brute-force first, then optimising out loud.

Heavy on practical coding — they gave a small repo and asked me to extend a rate limiter. Clean code and tests mattered more than fancy algorithms.

First round was 2 LeetCode-medium problems on arrays and strings. Second round dived into my projects and SQL joins. Waiting on the final HR call.

Got stuck on a tricky sliding-window variant in round 3. Lesson learned: practice the harder window problems and always state your invariant clearly.