Nutanix Interview Experience for MTS-1 with 1.5 Years Experience

I am a 2024 passout and recently appeared for interviews in Nutanix for their MTS-1 Role. Background - SDE I at US Core Bank (Recently switched from an US Investment Bank) YoE - 1.5 Years I applied vi

I am a 2024 passout and recently appeared for interviews in Nutanix for their MTS-1 Role. Background - SDE I at US Core Bank (Recently switched from an US Investment Bank) YoE - 1.5 Years I applied via referral and got call from recruiter after few weeks. I was serving notice period at the Investment Bank, and was about to join the Core Bank.

Round 1 There were 2 hard but standard questions on graphs. Alien Dictionary Word Ladder II It went smooth, interviewer was friendly. Got a call from the recruiter to schedule

next round the next day.

Round 2 It was a problem solving and debugging round. I had to clone an open source database driver codebase from GitHub. Then, the interviewer asked me to explain where different features are implemented in the code - the code block or the line. He started with specific database configurations like pools, connection logic. Then I had to clone the database codebase itself. The interviewer asked where indexing is implemented. Then I had to show where the actual execution logic was implemented. I was appearing for such type of round for the first time. I had prior open-source experience, so that helped. Few days later, I got a call from the recruiter that they have chosen someone internally. (I got another call after 2 weeks that there is one more opening, and I was the foremost in interview queue so they wanted to schedule next rounds. But I had joined the core bank by then. Still I appeared for the interview.)

Round 3 It was an HLD round. The interviewer was friendly and asked to design a Chat Application. I presented my approach, we discussed on the tradeoffs and it went well. Got a call the same day to schedule

next round.

Round 4 It was HM round. He asked some technical questions around Kafka and messaging systems. Then there was some discussion around the job role and day-to-day activities. We discussed on my open source experience, and my interests in core technologies. It was perhaps my favourite round. Got final result after a few days.

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