Interview Experience 109

2018

Software Engineer

Round 1 (Telephonic Round)-

• About yourself
• Basic Javascript Question
• What is closure?
• What is hoisting?
• How does the browser show the HTML when it gets it in a form of string?
• Output of following statements: setTimeout(console.log(“a”), 2000); setTimeout(console.log(“b”), 0); console.log(“c”); console.log(“d”); Ans: cdba

Round 2 (Telephonic Puzzle Round)-

• About yourself
• Puzzle (30 mins) - Suppose you are in a 2D finite space, of irregular shape, at any random point. Your objective is to come out of the space. But there exists GOD, who doesn’t want you do so.

Conditions:

• You can move 1 step of unit distance at a time (forward or backward)
• GOD can randomly reverse your movement by sending you exactly 1 unit backward from the direction, you wish to move.

Tell the optimal strategy to come out of the 2D plane.

Round 3 (Onsite, Taken by Principal Frontend Engineer)-

• Tell about yourself.
• Asked questions about my project/internships.
• He had opened the web-app that I had built as an intern and had me questions on the implementation.

Round 4 (Onsite, Co-founder Round)-

• Tell about yourself.
• Why Toppr?
• Asked questions about my project/internships.
• Asked questions about the kind of exposure I have in the various technologies that I had worked on and few other questions.