For better communication and explaining approach to be confident for the provided question

Hey, if Zscaler on-campus intern ke liye aa chuki hai kisi ke campus mai then pls tell what was the OA pattern and what was asked ?

Hello senior if you had given the Phonepe interview recently pls advice meee

Interview is tomorrow

It's oncampus and only females eligible

Thankyou

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Hey everyone,

I'm currently in my 4th year and placements are going on in my college.

The main problem: I can't clear the DSA rounds.

I'm practicing regularly on LeetCode/GFG but still getting stuck in interviews.

Right now I'm feeling very scattered - like I don't know what to focus on and what to skip. Array, DP, Graphs... sab ek saath karne ki wajah se kuch bhi proper nahi ho paa raha.

My background:

- Year: 4th Year BTech

- Location: Jaipur

- Goal: Clear company DSA rounds

What I need help with:

1. What topics should I prioritize for placements right now?

2. How to structure 1-2 months of DSA prep?

I completed by Btech from a NIT this June, I also completed an internship in a FAANG, did not get the ppo, now I have infosys(dse- joining in coming months) and global logic(joining in feb)

now both these are paying very much low, I earned almost same as their ctc in 6 months internship and now i'm supposed to go there and earn 1/3 of my stipend in one month, I'm trying hard applying everywhere but I don't see much openings for 2026 passouts most of them are for 1+ year exp or asking me to do intern + ppo (again the same gamble) and that too in like 25/30k

I'm really desparate for a good job, since I started my career so high, I'm unable to process that now I will have to work for 1/3 of the money, Ik the job market is bad and I'm not planning on skipping on these two I have them so I will join I don't have anyother options

But i genuinely wannna know why do companies hire interns for 6 months if they don't convert them

I feel like I'm going from riches to rag, for 6 months I lived comfortably did what i wanted to do, worked my ass off and here I'm back at home staring at an offer letter that makes me resent the whole point of working so hard only to end up in a city where this much money would barely help me survive.

So if you happen to know about any company that is willing to hire a 2026 batch passout with only internship experience do let me know I will be thankful for you

Hey everyone!

I have my Texas Instruments (TI) Software Development / Data Engineer FTE on-campus placement coming up in a week and I’m looking for recent OA and interview experiences from anyone who has gone through the process.

I’d really appreciate it if anyone who recently appeared for the TI OA/interview could share:

• OA pattern: number/type of aptitude, CS fundamentals and coding questions
• Exact/recalled OA coding questions or PYQs
• Difficulty level and important topics to prepare
• Interview questions, especially DSA, JavaScript/React, CS fundamentals and project-related questions
• Any other important topics or tips for the TI process

I’m mainly looking for recent 2025–2026 experiences, since the process can change between batches.

Even if you remember only the topic or rough idea of a question, that would be really helpful.

Thanksssssss!!!!!

I've quit dsa twice or thrice and I haven't even reached recursion and further topics yet.

Am in my final year now starting my dsa journey again after 4 months. Yeah basically from array again so how should I approach it now? Solve SDE sheet from striver blindly? Or solve pattern wise rising brains sheet? I know targeting 300 questions in a limited time is not feasible rn but I'm trying to solve 2-3 questions daily. And what is an appropriate approach to revise things ?

Has anyone received their offer letter from zomato? I have been selected on campus but haven't received the offer letter yet

heyy,

currently i have two offers:

1- 18lpa(fixed) + 15lpa(esops) - a small company which was acquired by india's big fintech - blr - have been interning since an year

2- 24lpa(fixed) + 2 variable - gurgaon based company - i have seen more negative reviews about the work culture and talked some people woring there it was mixed reviews

i am not able to decided what to do

i am very confused please help

I’m a software engineer with 6+ years of experience, currently working as a Tech Lead. There is a possibility that if I’m unable to find another role internally, I could be laid off around November.
Financially I should have some runway, so I’m mentally considering January 2027 as the point by which I really want to have my next role sorted out.
Given the current job market, I’m trying to use the next few months as seriously as possible and would like some perspective from people who have recently interviewed/hired at the 5–8 YOE level.
My preparation currently looks like this:

DSA
This is honestly my weakest area.
Despite having 6+ YOE, I would still consider myself a novice when it comes to competitive/interview-style DSA.
I’m currently following Akshay Saini’s Namaste DSA course and solving problems alongside it. I’ve covered arrays, strings, linked lists, stacks/queues, sliding window, trees/BST etc., and I’m currently doing Heaps/Priority Queues.
I still have Graphs, Backtracking, Greedy and DP ahead of me.
One thing I want to be transparent about: completing a topic doesn’t mean I can solve any random LeetCode problem from that topic. I can solve problems when I recognize the pattern, but I’m still developing that intuition.
My goal right now is consistency — understand the major patterns and solve problems every day rather than trying to grind hundreds of questions.

HLD / System Design
I’ve gone through pretty much all the system-design material on Hello Interview.
I’m comfortable with the concepts and I can apply many of these while working through system-design questions.
But I definitely need more practice doing complete designs from scratch under interview conditions and defending the trade-offs.
So this is currently more of a practice problem than a knowledge problem for me.

LLD
For LLD, I’ve covered OOP/SOLID and the major design patterns.
I’m now practicing actual LLD problems and trying to get better at identifying the right abstractions instead of force-fitting patterns.
I’m using ChatGPT heavily here as an interviewer/practice partner — I design something, explain my decisions, get challenged with follow-up questions, and iterate.

AI / GenAI
This is another area I plan to ramp up significantly because I’m interested in moving toward Applied AI / GenAI engineering roles.
I already have hands-on exposure through work/projects involving RAG, vector search, LLM applications/agents, Databricks, APIs, cloud infrastructure, etc.
For interview preparation, I’m planning a structured revision of:
LLM fundamentals → Embeddings → Vector Search → RAG → Hybrid Search → Reranking → Agents/Tool Calling → Evals → Guardrails/Prompt Injection → Model Routing → Cost/Latency → Fine-tuning/LoRA → GraphRAG.
I don’t want to become an ML researcher. My target is more toward building and shipping production AI systems.

So my question to people who have recently interviewed for senior/lead/applied-AI roles:
Am I preparing in the right direction for someone with 6+ YOE?
More specifically:
How strong does DSA realistically need to be at my experience level?
Should I continue covering DSA broadly, or stop after the major patterns and spend more time on system design/LLD?
For 6+ YOE, how much weight are companies currently putting on DSA vs HLD/LLD vs actual engineering experience?
For Applied AI Engineer roles, what are interviewers actually expecting beyond RAG/LLM fundamentals?
Is there anything important missing from my preparation?
If you had roughly 3 months to prepare in this situation, what would you prioritize differently?
I’m not looking for reassurance. If my preparation is too broad, too shallow, or I’m spending time on the wrong things, I’d genuinely like to know.
Would especially appreciate input from people who have interviewed or hired 5–8 YOE engineers in India recently.

I have received a ppo from my summer intern and the offer is 20 lpa base with no bonus . I ca either accept ppo or sit for the placements. Tier 1 IIT non circuital , 8+ cf. What to do

Edit : (if you have few minutes to comment then request you to please read the full post not only heading 🙂🥲 as I was not able to post heading exactly because of some redundancy and reddit filters were not allowing)

For developers who made a big jump in compensation, what worked for you?
I have around 4–5 years of experience overall. I started my career with Infosys and after that moved to two Fortune 500 product-based organizations. I’m currently working at one of them. My tech stack is mainly Java Full Stack, and I’m currently making around 20–22 LPA.
I’m planning to switch and want to target companies where I can move into the 45–50L+ range. I’ve started preparing DSA, System Design and the usual interview stuff. I’m not specifically looking at FAANG. I’m more interested in good product companies with strong engineering teams and compensation in that range.
I also wanted to understand how people here are finding remote opportunities with companies outside India, especially companies based in Europe, the US, Singapore, Netherlands, Switzerland, etc.
For people who are doing this, where do you actually apply? Are there any particular websites or job boards that have worked for you? Or is it mostly referrals and LinkedIn?
Also, how difficult is it to crack these international remote roles compared to high-paying roles in India? And how is the job security generally?
I’m also curious whether these companies give opportunities to travel to their country for work, team meetings or offsites for a couple of months in a year.
Would really appreciate advice from people who have made a similar switch. I’m mainly trying to figure out where I should be applying proactively instead of just waiting for recruiters to reach out.

i've just started striver's sheet, almost finished arrays, and i'm already starting to forget how to solve a few problems, how do i keep them fresh in my head ? cuz when i will cover more topics i will keep forgetting about these ones more and more

Hi everyone,

I have an upcoming SDET interview with EXL the day after tomorrow for a candidate with around 3 years of experience.

I was told there will be 3 rounds:

2 Technical rounds

1 Client round

I would really appreciate some insights from anyone who has recently interviewed for a similar SDET/QA Automation role at EXL.

What kind of questions should I expect in the two technical rounds?

How much focus is there on Java, API testing/automation, Rest Assured, Selenium, SQL, and coding/DSA?

What should I expect in the client round?

Are there any specific topics or questions that I should prioritize preparing for?

Most importantly, for someone with around 3 YOE, what salary/CTC range can I realistically expect at EXL for an SDET role?

If you've recently gone through the EXL SDET interview process, I'd really appreciate any advice or interview experiences. Thanks!

Can somebody tell how many rounds will be scheduled for those who have received the opportunity from hackon? I have currently given one round of interview

Hi everyone, I just got my Amazon SDE I Intern interview scheduled for 20th Aug (Round 1, 2–3 PM IST) and 21st Aug (Round 2, 4–5 PM IST). I have very limited time left and I’m honestly confused about what to prioritize. I’ve mainly prepared DSA, but I haven’t prepared CS fundamentals like OOP, DBMS, OS, CN, etc. in much depth. I want to focus on what is actually being asked nowadays in Amazon SDE Intern interviews rather than trying to cover everything at the last minute. For people who have recently interviewed, what DSA topics/patterns and difficulty should I focus on? How important are Leadership Principles and behavioral questions? Given my limited time, should I spend time on CS fundamentals, or focus mainly on DSA + behavioral? Are there any specific LeetCode questions or resources I should prioritize, and what should I completely avoid wasting time on right now? I’m from a lower-middle-class family, and this opportunity genuinely means a lot to me. I really don’t want to waste these last couple of days preparing the wrong things. If anyone who recently went through the Amazon SDE Intern process could share what was actually asked and what they would prioritize with only 2 days left, I would be extremely grateful. Any guidance would mean a lot to me.

I completed all rounds of interview with a company 1.5 months ago and then they sent me a “congratulations on completing the hiring process pls send these documents” email. This was a month ago and they haven’t sent me the official offer letter yet. At first the recruiter said that there were some approvals necessary before they can roll out the offer then they said they are reprioritising which team to put me on. Now I’ve been calling them since a week and the recruiter is not picking up or responding to any texts or emails. what should I do, does this mean they will not be giving me an offer. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Hey everyone, I recently cleared the Amazon HackOn OA passed all testcases on both the DSA and debugging sections(spring boot). Now I have the interview round coming up and could use some guidance from people who've been through it.

My stack/projects lean towards Spring Boot, and I'm trying to figure out:

Project depth How deep do they actually go into your tech stack and projects? Do they expect you to justify every architectural decision, or is it more surface-level "walk me through what you built"?

CS fundamentals Do they ask CN/OS/DBMS in the actual interview, or is that only tested in the OA's MCQ section?

Any general tips on what to expect LP questions, coding round difficulty, how many rounds, etc.

Would really appreciate insights from anyone who's gone through interview pipeline recently. Thanks in advance!

I am a 2nd year cse student in tier 2 college and everytime I see this community everyone has already achieved a lot by 2nd year and I haven’t started leetcode yet and i want to start now atleast give me advice and tips and how to learn and get better ❤️‍🩹

in 2nd year ,

I have been doing DSA in java since last 2 months ( solved 70 questions)

I'm confused whether to stick to java or go with python.

Python was my first language and I'm heavily efficient in it , I'm quite decent in java too. But I would choose python in a heart beat — Only thing that is keeping me back is What if the interviewer or company doesn't like python .

So, I'm seeking advice from those who are already in industry. Can I do DSA in python ( ik i can , But will it be welcomed everywhere)

And Also what skill should I build along side python .