Right now I am SWE 2 at Uber and previously I was a UI 2 at Flipkart, so here is my opinion on a few questions I receive.
Q) How do you get interview calls?
Ans)From my personal experience, having a good college background helps in the initial years. If that is not the case for you, then getting you foot into one of the decent size brands also helps.
From my personal experience, once I got into Flipkart, I was getting interview calls from renowned companies that I was not getting earlier.
Now breaking into the first renowned company is the trick for many out there. For that I suggest to apply from all channels aka
- Apply on job postings on the company page
- Apply on Naukri
- Apply on other job portals
- Directly ping HRs
- Directly ping Engineering managers, many of them say they are hiring for their team.
- Ping engineers working on the company you are targeting.
Points 4,5,6 may get you referrals and that would help you get interviews.
Closing thought, I feel it requires a bit of luck as well to get the interview call, so keep trying.
Q) What kind of questions are asked during the interview? Specially DS questions?
Ans) Every specialization would have it's own set of rounds.
For example for FE (frontend engineering) it maybe machine coding round (where they may ask you to build some project) javascript round (where they will assess your FE skills), design and architecture round (where they will test your system design skills) coding round(where they may ask you DS algo based questions) and finally a manager round.
For DS algo based questions, I just did as many questions I could do (around 80 within a time period of 2-3 months) of leetcode mediums.
Just make sure you touch the popular topics and cover some breadth. That should be enough for the most part.
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