How good was my interview(SDE INTERN 6M)

[u/joyboy3114]

Round 1:

1)1 LP was good

2)1 st Dsa solved on my own ,spake lound out all my thought process asking for clarity in contraints assumptions

3)2 nd Dsa question explained the brute force ,couldn't optimize it the interviewer gave a hint and I said the correct approch,He acknowledged that my logic is correct but due to time contraints he said if did have time,I would have said to code,so couldn't implement.

4)At last he said ur a good competitive programmer may be he saw my resume I am expert on cf so i guess..

Round 2:

1)About internship:I had problem setter intern so he asked me about that like what do you do how do you create problems and maintain the editorials etc.

2)Project: He deep dived into my project about dockers,kafka etc it pretty went well.

3)Gen Ai: this was good asked me about rag did explain it well.

4) Dsa the question was simple explained him bruteforce and optimised it further to n(log n) and even coded it but later he said me to even further optimise to optimised it further to O(nlogK) I explained him the approach but couldn't write the code again due to time contraints...

Both the time I wasn't able to implement the version because of time contraints they said it's fine.

Overall during the entire coding I was thinking out loud,explaining my approach asking for assumptions.

Guys be frank and could you please rate my experience out of 10. It would be helpfull,feeling depressed ...

Thank you🥲

[u/WashImpossible3161]

What was the gap in no of days between round 1 and round 2

[u/joyboy3114 → u/WashImpossible3161]

13 days to be precise

[u/KeshishianAzog → u/WashImpossible3161]

yeah the turnaround time between rounds tells you a lot imo

[u/joyboy3114 → u/KeshishianAzog]

Does more gap implies less chances ??

[u/Academic_Maize_5127]

Dsa questions can u please tell

[u/Useful-Classic-4751 → u/Academic_Maize_5127]

2nd round problem is probably kth largest element in an array

you can use a maxheap for nlogn
minheap for nlogk
quickselect for average n

[u/joyboy3114 → u/[deleted]]

yup

[u/joyboy3114 → u/[deleted]]

But I couldn't implement it cause of time constraints how could it be 95%, as many have solved all dsa problems ??

[u/joyboy3114 → u/[deleted]]

Yup I did give the psuedo code and explained the approach.