I was asked OOP and SQL concepts, solving problems on polymorphism, inheritance, and JOIN queries. Later, I solved array and linked list problems, followed by an HR discussion on teamwork.
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How to generate short URLs.
Database schema and scaling solutions.
Handling heavy traffic.
Avoiding collisions in generated URLs.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at XYZ (New York, NY) in Nov 2025
Interview
It was a good experience , interviewer was nice ,ask me to briefly go throught my project , then asked some backend questions like https , rest apis ,req flow etc some git commands then ask a simple maths puzzle
nice but only for those who have prepared for the drive for campus placement series but yeah overall great experience for the company i have seeen in the field of sowtware intern for the fresher in location
They asked me to design and implement an efficient algorithm to detect cycles in a directed graph, explain my choice of data structure, analyze time and space complexity, and discuss potential optimizations for large-scale inputs.”
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Question 1
“They asked me to design an algorithm that finds the first non-repeating character in a string, optimize it for time complexity, and then walk through edge cases.”