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Tarun Santani
Arista
Intern
CS 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
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🎯 Process Overview


📌 Stages:

  • Online Assessment
  • Technical Interviews: Round 1 & Round 2
  • HR Interview

📝 Online Assessment

The assessment consisted of *two sets, where *one question was common across both sets.
  • My Set: This set was relatively easier.
    • Question 1: A standard string manipulation question.
    • Question 2: A Fibonacci pattern-based question. This was *challenging to interpret, but upon careful observation of the test cases, the *pattern could be deciphered.

🛠 Interview Rounds

🔹 Technical Interview — Round 1

👥 Candidate Count: Approximately 20–25 candidates.
Interview Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes (longest among all candidates).
💻 Mode: Online

📝 Questions:

  • Mathematical & Bit Manipulation:
    • A few questions related to basic math and bitwise operations.
  • Data Structures:
    • Linked List: Dividing a linked list into k parts and performing some operation.
    • Graphs: Questions focused on DFS and BFS traversal methods.
  • Computer Science Concepts:
    • Kernel: Explained the basic concept of the kernel.
    • Abstraction and Encapsulation: Discussed these fundamental OOP concepts.

🔹 Technical Interview — Round 2

👥 Candidate Count: Reduced to 10 candidates.

⚠ Challenges:

  • Limited time remaining for the interview because of the last round.
  • My interviewer had some personal issues with clear communication, which added a bit of difficulty.

📝 Questions:

  • Introduction:
    • Briefly introduced myself.
  • Technical Questions:
    • String manipulation questions.
    • A graph-based question.
    • Pattern Matching: A string pattern-matching question where the optimal solution involved using a Trie data structure.
      • I implemented the solution but faced difficulty in managing the end-of-string marker to check if a word was fully formed.

❌ Verdict:

  • Outcome: Not selected.

🔍 Observations:

  • Candidates who cleared Round 2 were offered the position, with **three candidates receiving Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs).

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