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Most of the rounds focus on high level design and db design related questions. One of the the round they revisit the hacker rank code and they will ask you to improve it. Also they cover the project and deep dive on your profile too. Usually the rounds span between 1 and 1 and half an hour.
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Arcesium

4
Mar 12, 2021

Most of the rounds focus on high level design and db design related questions. One of the the round they revisit the hacker rank code and they will ask you to improve it. Also they cover the project and deep dive on your profile too. Usually the rounds span between 1 and 1 and half an hour.

Design Tiny URL services... AWS questions. SQL questions, challanges... lot of stress on strategies on optimizing SQL query executions on very large SQL dbs. They would bring you couple of their project challenges and ask for your thoughts.
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Kickdrum

3.5
Mar 3, 2018

Design Tiny URL services... AWS questions. SQL questions, challanges... lot of stress on strategies on optimizing SQL query executions on very large SQL dbs. They would bring you couple of their project challenges and ask for your thoughts.

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