Zupee: SWE role Inteview Questions

Round 1: Technical Interview

-Discussion: We kicked off with a conversation about my work during the Amazon internship.

-Coding: I was asked to solve problems on topics like Graphs, Sliding Window, and Prefix Sum.

-Analysis: Focused on time complexity, optimization strategies, and writing clean code.

Round 2: Technical Interview

-Design: I was asked to design a simple calendar app.

-Algorithms: Solved a 2D matrix problem which revolved around staircase sorting.

-Concepts: We discussed time and space complexity in different cases in detail.

-Systems Knowledge: I was also asked about OS concepts like page replacement algorithms and few DBMS topics like indexing.

Round 3: Design Interview

-This round was more design-focused rather than DSA-heavy.

-Problem Solving: We discussed algorithms related to external sorting and efficient handling of large datasets that don’t fit into memory.

-App Design: I was given a high-level design task to briefly outline a feature of a music player app (e.g., Spotify-like app).