SWE interview at Indeed

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Aug 27, 2021 9 Comments

Hello all could you tell me what the SWE interviews are like at Indeed and what i should prepare for and areas i should focus on.

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  • Rakuten
    WxlF27

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    Phone interview will be with Karat. You can read about how this interview would be on glassdoor or just search “karat interview” right here in Blind and get to know more about it. But in my experience Karat interviewer will first ask some very indepth questions about 2 topics in 15 minutes (you will have to choose 2 out of 5 topics that relate to the position you apply so please choose the topics that you are most familliar/have experience with). After that you will have 45 minutes to solve at least 2 coding problems, the levels are Leetcode easy and medium for the first two (or medium and hard, in my case it they were actually medium and hard). Unless you can clear 2 coding problems, you cannot pass this interview. The tips here are trying to find a working solution not an optimized one (because the test cases are small), briefly talk about your approaches and DO NOT think out loud when you are implementing your ideas because the interviewer just cares about your code works or not when you push the Run button. Just focus on making your code passes all the tests. You can go to leetcode and practice with the questions that marked Indeed, it would help a lot.
    Onsite interview, there will be total 6 rounds including 2 white board codings, 1 hackerrank coding, 1 system design, 1 code review and 1 with managers.
    I think the code review is the easiest one. Coding rounds consist of medium level problems, you will have 45 minutes to solve 1 problem each round. System design, you will be asked to design any kind of famous systems (facebook, twitter, instagram, uber…) or a small component of them. You can practice with Grokking the system design interview course.
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