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1. HTTP vs HTTPS 2. Design twitter table. Consider two tables, tweets and users. Suggest a way to associate user_id with tweet_id. 3. Symmetric vs Asymmetric ciphers 4. Suggest how to implement Whatsapp's end to end encryption.
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Software Engineer, Backend Intern

Interviewed at Innovaccer

2.9
May 11, 2021

1. HTTP vs HTTPS 2. Design twitter table. Consider two tables, tweets and users. Suggest a way to associate user_id with tweet_id. 3. Symmetric vs Asymmetric ciphers 4. Suggest how to implement Whatsapp's end to end encryption.

1st round - was more hands on coding (nothing too complicated) 2nd round - was more theoretical about implementing a feature E2E (client, server, db). In my opinion this was the hardest interview. I feel that in the others I did quite well and they were not too difficult. 3rd round - was system design like interview. Very theoretical with scalability and consistency in mind. 4rd round - was hr interview, pretty straight forward.
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Senior Backend Software Engineer

Interviewed at monday.com

4
Aug 8, 2022

1st round - was more hands on coding (nothing too complicated) 2nd round - was more theoretical about implementing a feature E2E (client, server, db). In my opinion this was the hardest interview. I feel that in the others I did quite well and they were not too difficult. 3rd round - was system design like interview. Very theoretical with scalability and consistency in mind. 4rd round - was hr interview, pretty straight forward.

Some of the questions that I can recall: Technical Round 1: 1. Array and Hash map: Find the 1st duplicate element in an array. 2. Nested SQL queries (Group by, Order by are used). 3. Questions about Rebel Foods(just to test our interest in their organization). Technical Round 2: 1. A normal riddle question (Easy). 2. The coding question involves mixed concepts of data instruction and algorithms. The question I got required concepts of trees, graphs, linked lists.
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Software Development Engineer (Backend)

Interviewed at Rebel Foods (Formerly Faasos)

3.8
Jan 18, 2022

Some of the questions that I can recall: Technical Round 1: 1. Array and Hash map: Find the 1st duplicate element in an array. 2. Nested SQL queries (Group by, Order by are used). 3. Questions about Rebel Foods(just to test our interest in their organization). Technical Round 2: 1. A normal riddle question (Easy). 2. The coding question involves mixed concepts of data instruction and algorithms. The question I got required concepts of trees, graphs, linked lists.

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