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      Software Engineer, Backend Interview

      8 Nov 2019
      Anonymous employee
      Bengaluru
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Sequoia (Bengaluru)

      Interview

      A total of 5 rounds were there during the interview process. 3 technical, 1 tech + behavioral and last one was cultural fit round. The entire process took around a week. The first 3 tech rounds were f2f rounds and mostly revolved around the work that I did so far. The questions were pretty exhaustive and detailed. I had to explain the working of NodeJs, Redis, and diff between Mongo and MySql. For the NodeJs questioning, I had to write code to explain how the event loop, callbacks, and promises work and explain their internals in detail. I was also questioned about the application structure and design and how will solve the problem of user-access mgmt in both application and database levels. HR rounds were exhaustive too as it was a 2hr Zoom call. The questions were situational based questions to understand whether the person is eligible for becoming a team member. This is to make sure that the company's culture is preserved. The person-in-charge of my recruitment had given me a disclaimer to not to take this round lightly as this was the primary reason for many candidates getting rejected.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. Reasons why Redis is not considered as a primary datastore. 2. Prefer a promised call over others in the most efficient fashion. 3. Design application structure for access control mgmt. Also design db mgmt system for the same.
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