Online Assessment had 3 questions. 1 medium, 1 between medium to hard and 1 hard
Duration was 2 hours as far as I can remember.
Shortlisting based on the OA itself, no CG shortlist involved.
Shortlisted 12 candidates for the interviews, final selects were just 2!
Offline Round 1 was as mentioned, mix of my resume based general project questions + Basic DSA Approach based questions + 1 Easy to Medium level Coding question
It was one of the comprehensive rounds and took around 1hr 10mins types
Offline Round 2, 6 people made it. It was simply based on solving a Coding Question Live with all the test cases and all setup on some online application. It was a difficult DP based approach question. Needed heavy optimising, brute force would pass only 1 test case out of 23. 1D DP would pass 12. 2D DP passed all the approach. Interviewer asked me to code all the approaches that I knew, starting off with brute force, then optimise to 1D DP and code again. And then finally, 2D DP.
When 2D DP did not work in the first attempt, he got really interested in looking at the HOW I Debug the code. He mentioned that for him, DEBUGGING carried the most marks.
Luckily, I used simple but useful strategies that he was expecting like logging & break points & filter guessing etc. He was constantly watching throughout my debugging steps.... when it finally ran, he was quite happy and said that he was done with the interview, it went really well and that I could leave if i did not have any questions further, To NOT end abruptly, I asked a few basic questions about the projects that he was currently working on at UiP and etc. Then left.
Finally, for the Offline Round 3, only 4 (or 5, idr) were selected. There were 2 HMs present and we were randomly grouped with one of them. That HM would take our round. The one that I got allotted was very chill and listened a lot and was very supportive as well throughout and asked mostly questions that were about Myself. This round went the best for me personally!
Finally, only 2 were selected. One from under each HM!
