How to prepare for roinhood karat for backend? 50 minutes - 20min system system 30min for 1-3 coding questions Seens insanely hard for the time. Any tips?
The IDE on karat has severe input lag
I just did one yesterday for Wayfair. Its like 5 quick fire system design questions, testing basic design knowledge, and then LC Easy - medium - hard (if you get that far). My interview ended as I finished up the medium. The interviewer didnāt really manage time well
How much design knowledge is needed?
You should know things like eventual vs strong consistency, what load balancers are, caches vs relational databases, that kind of stuff. Stream processing vs batch.
stupid Karat, because of a simple thing, my code was not outputting correct result and all they care about is the output. Couldnāt debug in such less time and interviewer was just sitting there whole time. Will just reject giving Karat intervjew next time.
Sorry to hear that.. Personally I hate all OAs. I find person to person interviews to be the best. Karat is just a different form of OA ā¹ļø
They say Karat interviewers come from āeliteā engineering firms on their website. Mine was a data analyst at some random non tech company. How are they supposed to be able to evaluate capability? And there might also be some psychological bias or ego because they see the role youāre interviewing for. They could be thinking, this person Iām interviewing is going for a 400k TC job which is multiple times what Iām making, let me exert some authority over this person, etc.
What are you on about
I solved 1 medium question completely and was able to give approach and mentioned how I can refactor existing code for follow up hard question. But didn't get chance to code it up in 30 min. Weird part is I even finished system design discussion in 15 min but interviewer mentioned they will strictly give only 30 min for coding though total interview was for 1 hr. What are my onsite chances?
Just say I don't take karat interviews. This stupid company ruins stuff for everyone. I always flunked when they took interviews
This. I am second to this. Useless company