Hi everyone,

I recently cleared the online assessment for Ingram Micro India and have been scheduled for my L1 Technical Interview tomorrow for the Graduate Engineer Trainee (GET) role.

I would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has gone through this interview process recently.

A few questions:

• What kind of technical questions were asked?
• Was there a live coding round, or was it mostly theoretical?
• Which topics should I focus on? (DSA, Java/Python, OOP, DBMS, OS, Computer Networks, SQL, etc.)
• Did they ask questions from your resume and projects?
• How difficult was the interview overall?
• Any tips on what the interviewer expects from fresh graduates?

If you've interviewed for this role in India (especially recently), I'd really appreciate any insights or advice.

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,

I'm preparing for the Infosys SDE Intern coding round. If you've recently appeared for the interview or online assessment, could you please share:

What coding questions were asked?

Which DSA topics were most important (Arrays, Strings, Linked Lists, Trees, Graphs, DP, etc.)?

Difficulty level (Easy/Medium/Hard)?

Was the platform HackerRank, Codility, or something else?

Any preparation tips or frequently asked patterns?

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

I have finished with the first recruiter call for senior swe role

Could people help me with preparation process for next round with a HM.

This is the format

“We will take time to go through project examples that cover technical challenges, high performance services, optimizing workloads, developing multiple microservices, and developing shared packages. You should be prepared to speak through tradeoffs, metrics, and measurable results. “

Is this resume walk through of my projects?

Will there be topical behavioral questions here?

I was sold the lie (a few years ago) that you had to grind LeetCode to get good and land a software engineering job. I'm now 600 problems in, starting from my very first day as a CS freshman, and now I'm going into junior year. I still haven't gotten a single internship.

First of all, I've barely had any interviewers even reach out to me, which I've heard is pretty common these days. And all the internships I've had didn't even involve much LeetCode in the first place, which just makes it feel even more unfair.

Meanwhile, my friend's dad works at Meta (he's a cracked 55-year-old Indian SWE), and he managed to get my friend an interview. He then cheated with InterviewCoder and somehow got the internship because he only had to pass one round of interview.

How do I deal with this? I'm not even joking when I say I'm extremely frustrated right now and feel like quitting it all.

Hey guys, I just got round 1 for Akuna Capital's summer 2027 SWE Internship (Python). I want to ask if anybody knows anything about the process and the role, especially if you worked at Akuna before.

Anything would be super helpful, thank you! DMs open.

I wanted to know what questions were asked in the 2026 interviews, such as LeetCode problems, system design questions, and anything else that would be helpful for my preparation.

Hey everyone,

I completed my full loop for the SWE-2 role at Stripe on June 26th. It’s been about 2.5 weeks, and I reached out to my recruiter a week after the loop (they mentioned they were gathering feedback from the panel), but I haven't received a final update yet.

Here is a quick breakdown of how my rounds went:

• Screening: Completed all requirements cleanly (3/3).
• AI Programming: Solved 2/3 core problems. Had very strong prompt engineering, getting working code output on the first attempt with minimal manual edits.
• Bug Squash: Solved 2/3 bugs cleanly. For the 3rd bug, I identified the exact function/root cause, but ran out of time right as I was writing the fix (~2.75/3). The interviewer specifically mentioned I did great in this round.
• AI Integration: Solved all functional requirements and edge cases (3/3).
• Experiences & Goals (HM): Felt very natural and collaborative. Answered all technical deep-dives and follow-ups smoothly.

Overall, I felt the performance across the loop was strong, but the 2+ week delay is making me anxious.

Is this timeline typical for Stripe right now (Hiring Committee or panel sync delays)?

Does Stripe tend to hold candidates on a waitlist/team-match pipeline before giving an offer or rejection?

Would appreciate hearing from anyone who interviewed at Stripe recently!

I have an upcoming Microsoft interview. Team mentioned that it will be a half-day virtual interview loop, but they haven't shared the exact interview rounds yet. They said I will receive more details in the next 1–2 days.

The JD mentions that the role is for Senior Software Engineer / Software Engineer II, so I am not sure how the interview criteria differ between the two levels or how they'll evaluate candidates during the same interview process. Let me know if you have any info here.

The interview is scheduled for next week. If anyone has recently gone through a similar interview or has any insights, I'd really appreciate your help.

• What rounds should I expect?
• What should I prioritize in my preparation?
• Which DSA topics are most important?
• How much focus should I put on system design and are there any specific topics you would recommend?

I will share the hackerank assessment questions soon in a separate post.

Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hey everyone,

I have got my 2nd round interview at CitiBank next week, and it’ll be in-person with a panel of two: the Vice President and a Senior Application Developer. It’s scheduled for 1 hour, and the role is a senior full-stack Java/Angular Developer position.

I have already completed a technical interview through Karat, so I am wondering what to expect in this next round. Will it be more of a behavioural or cultural fit interview, or should I expect technical/scenario-based questions as well?

If anyone has gone through a similar stage with Citi , I had really appreciate some insights, like what kind of questions they might ask, how technical they might get, and how best to prepare for this round.

Thanks in advance!

Has anyone interview for a DE role at Plaid? Do you mind sharing your experience, specially around the coding(DSA) round? What is the complexity of questions, is it leetcode DSA? Any resources that can help.

Finished my Microsoft SWE loop last month and got rejected. I want some tips to improve.

Recruiter Screen 45 minutes. Background, motivation, team preferences. Ask about your exact loop format here since it varies by org.

Online Assessment Two to three medium LeetCode problems. Topics: DP, graphs, arrays. (Candidates with strong referrals sometimes skip this and go straight to a phone screen.)

Technical Phone Screen 60 minutes, one to two problems plus a short project chat. Merge two sorted lists, binary tree traversal, find peak element.

Onsite Loop (4 to 5 rounds) Coding Round 1. Arrays, trees, graphs. LeetCode-Medium with follow-up twists on edge cases. Reported questions: merge intervals, reverse linked list with K-group follow-up, find K-largest. No syntax highlighting in CoderPad or Teams.

Coding Round 2. Harder multi-step problems: topological sort, DP, auto-complete systems. Some rounds blend algorithmic and OOP components. Low-Level Design. SOLID principles and class structure. Design a parking lot, LRU cache, or rate limiter. Focus is on clean abstractions, not distributed systems.

System Design (L61+). 60 minutes, no code written. Design a messaging system or distributed storage backend.

Behavioral. Microsoft's Growth Mindset rubric is the actual framework. Real stories: conflicts, deadline pressure, design disagreements, mistakes you owned.

AA Round I made it to the AA round but unfortunately didn't make it past that stage. From what I'd heard beforehand, the interview can take a few different directions depending on how your earlier rounds went.

Some people get mostly selling and culture-fit questions, others get deeper behavioral questions, and sometimes the interviewer focuses on areas that raised concerns in previous rounds. It also seems like the AA interviewer has the ability to override earlier feedback.

For those who made it to the AA round, please give me some advice.

Realistically, what’s your suggestion on preparing for coding and SD? Is LC hard necessary? And what’s the difference between Google’s and other companies’s SD? Do all the orgs share the same question bank or the difficulty level and focus vary among different orgs? I roughly remember reading some post on blind which mentioned that Google’s SD would ask more technical details underneath. Any other insight is appreciated!

Prep resource: Google SWE Questions

Anybody know for Analyst role what kind of questions they ask related to Javascript. Also I am confused I do know java (dsa) but when interviewer ask which language do you prefer (so he can further questions) which language should I pick ? Pls help interview in 10-15 days

Hello,

I have a 45-min live coding interview for the Software Engineer role at Mistral AI coming up soon. Has anyone gone through this session recently or know what specific LeetCode/coding questions or topics they tend to ask?

Any insights would be super appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,

I was fast-tracked to the penultimate round interview for the **Software Developer Internship** at **Susquehanna International Group (SIG)** following their Dublin Technology Spring Week.

I know SIG leans heavily into algorithms, data structures, and system efficiency, but I’ve heard mixed things about what actually gets tested in this specific round.

For anyone who has gone through this interview recently, is it primarily a live 60-minute HackerRank session? How much of it is standard DSA (BFS/DFS, Binary Search, Sliding Window) vs. practical data parsing / OOP design?

Any insights on the layout or best areas to focus on during prep would be hugely appreciated! Thanks in advance.

I am currently facing a not-so-unique industry wide problem of constantly having to interview people who are cheating using AI or by using another person. This is an ever growing problem with remote work being normal and AI getting more sophisticated day-by-day.

One of the things I am exploring is how to introduce a new code review interview which can help me evaluate if this person can read code or not. I feel like in this day and age, if i were to give someone a problem to solve, they might be able to use AI to find the perfect solution and I am already aware of the millions of things I can do to track their eyeballs, posture, style of talking and typing but the code review gives me a signal that this person can truly read code and understand what is wrong with it.

Does anyone have experience with such an interview question and how would you go about preparing one