I applied online. I interviewed at QuickReply.ai in Apr 2026
Interview
Interview Round 1 : AI powered interview round focuses on system design
Interview Round 2: Research Paper Reading Tracker with options to add research papers, view reading library with different filters, option to view analytics all must be coming from a valid datasource(DB)
Performed well in both the rounds, then got ghosted by the HR(Alekhya banik).
Honestly, the HR was extremely unprofessional. I asked a question during the take home round and got completely ghosted. I anyways ended up submitting a really good take home with good code practices and spent good amount of hours into it just to receive a response "Acknowledged".No feedback. No timeline. Then followed up for the next 2 weeks with no reply at all.
Interview questions [8]
Question 1
AI round :
What kind of team or work environment are you hoping to find with your next role?
Imagine you're implementing the blue tick read receipt feature in a messaging app like WhatsApp. How would you design this feature from both front-end and back-end perspectives?
Can you walk me through how you would handle the front end side first, then the back end? What would each part need to track or update for the bluetick feature?
What was the big about getting real time synchronization working? Were there any challenges or decisions you had to make around handling multiple device or users?
In an online game with millions of users, you need to maintain and show a list of the top 10 users with the highest scores. Calls change frequently. What kind of data structures would you use to quickly provide the top 10 users? Discuss different data structures and their complexity for getting the top 10. Walk me through how you keep this list updated as scores change. What would happen each time a user's score is updated?
What made you choose a [datastructure] over other data structures for this? Were you considering any alternatives?(I choose a balanced tree)
Walk me through a specific situation where using AI tools made a noticeable difference in your workflow or output. What was happening, and how did the AI help?