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Intuit SDE 2 Interview Experience

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Had interview in May 2024

(Online Coding Assessment) — 90 mins
There were 5 MCQ questions and 1 DSA problem. The MCQs were based on following topics -

Class, interface question
Design Pattern
REST API or SOAP API
JSON Response Body in API response
Database related question

The DSA problem was Find if given linked list is palindrome or not ?

Recruiter approached after clearing the online coding round.
I was given an open-ended problem statement and was asked to design & develop the solution within 2 days.

Interviews

Round 1: Craft demonstration - 60 mins

  • Presented my solution for the given problem statement.
  • It was a SpringBoot BE application with Kafka, swagger, snyk, jacoco, h2, unit tests & some other plugins integrated.
  • Also presented LLD/HLD documents for the same.
  • Was asked to make some changes on the fly considering it was an open-ended statement.
  • Prepared statements v/s @Query
  • null v/s non-null fields in SQL
  • why choose SQL
  • Some performance based questions

Feedback: positive

Round 2: Assessor Round - 45 mins

  • asked few question on resume
  • Java 8 vs Java 11 vs Java 17
  • DSA - graph question - something similar to disconnected components

Feedback: positive

Round 3: Team Member Round - 30 mins

  • asked few question on resume
  • explain current project you're working on in current company
  • some questions on deployment to kubernetes pods
  • Design an eCommerce website
  • API contracts
  • DB Design
  • OOPs - polymorphism, abstraction
  • multithreading

Feedback: positive

Round 4: Hiring Manager Round - 30 mins

  • technical questions
  • given 1 billion student objects, will it fit into memory
  • design a module that counts number of visits on a webpage
  • I asked question wrt the product, revenues, business, challenges
  • meeting got stretched 15-20 mins

Feedback: positive

Meeting ended around 6 PM. Got confirmation call next day saying I have cleared all the round. Offer came the next day.

Offer: https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/5160304/Intuit-vs-Microsoft

All in all, good interview experience. They were quick with feebacks, offer-related communications & onboarding!

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