Interview Experience - Fox Corporation (SDE2) Role: SDE2 Source: Referral --- ## Round 1: DSA * Format: 2 Questions * Experience: The interviewer was very helpful. * Question 1: Given the level order of a binary tree, construct a binary tree. * Question 2: Validate Binary Search Tree. --- ## Round 2: LLD * Problem: LLD on Splitwise. * Experience: The interviewer participated very actively and asked questions throughout the design and implementation. Due to time constraints, he was okay with pseudo-code. * Outcome: At the end, he was satisfied with my design and the pseudo-code. --- ## Round 3: HLD * Scheduled Duration: 1 Hour * Actual Duration: 30 Minutes * Experience: * The interviewer joined the meeting 20 minutes late and looked uninterested. * Asked about previous role responsibilities and to sketch a high-level architecture. * 10 minutes into the interview, just as I drew some components, he cut me off to jump back to the problem statement. * Problem Statement: How would the home page API response look for apps like Flipkart? * Discussion: I provided many answers concentrating on the data layer. However, the interviewer was expecting an answer based on server-directed UI rendering. * Outcome: I did not have experience with that specific framework for web and mobile apps. 15 minutes into this, he was done with the interview. * Final Thoughts: Absolute waste of time. I concentrated on HLD for live and video streaming since Fox is video-streaming based and many other standard HLD questions, but nothing happened there. Don't waste candidates' time by concentrating on a specific framework in a 30-minute window when the round was scheduled for an hour. ---