ServiceNow | Associate Software Engineer - SDE 1 - IC1 | , India | August [Offer]

Background

• Experience - 1.3 yr (1 year internship at Product Based Company and 3-months as full time at same Company)

Online Assessment

• After 1 week of applying, got the hackerrank coding assessment.
• The assessment included 2 Leetcode medium questions
• I was able to solve 2 questions fully which was on array and string

After 10 days, I received an email from recruiter saying I have passed the online assessment and wants to schedule interviews.

In total, there were supposed to be 4 rounds:

1. DSA + JavaScript
2. DSA + Project Discussion
3. Hiring Manager Interview (DSA + Computer Fundamentals)
4. HR Discussion (Culture Fitment Round)

Interview Experience:

All the interviews followed a similar pattern, i.e. 80% Technical and 20% on skills you've mentioned on the resume. There was 2 technical question in each interview, with a few mins of discussion around it (Time Complexity, Space Complexity etc) and then general questions regarding skills mentioned on the resume.

Round 1 (DSA + JavaScript)

• 1 Question on binary search.
• Find the smallest window in a string containing all characters of another string
• Basic questions on Javascript as async await, closure, scope and some output based questions

Round 2 (DSA + Project Discussion)

• Merge a linked list into another linked list at alternate positions
• Maximum consecutive numbers present in an array
• Questions around project as why this tech stack, explain about the schema, how will you handle traffic etc.

Round 3 Hiring Manager Interview (DSA + Computer Fundamentals)

• Reverse Words in a String
• Questions on Networking, AWS, DBMS (NoSQL vs SQL), Operating System (commands, system calls, process etc.) and a healthy discussion around project I've done in my internships.

Round 4 HR Discussion (Culture Fitment Round)

• Some behavioural questions

Decision

After 1 week, I was informed that I have cleared the interviews and they are moving forward with the offer.

P.S. I got a positive feedback after each interview and also asked the interviewer about any area where I can improve myself.

Accepted The Offer