Interview Experience - Fox Corporation (SDE2)

Role: SDE2

Source: Referral --- ##

Round 1 DSA *

Format: 2 Questions *

Experience: The interviewer was very helpful. *

Question 1:

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. ---