Timeline and Interview experience

• November 27, 2024 – Applied without a referral.

• December 27, 2024 – Shortlisted for the Online Assessment (OA).

• January 2, 2025 – Took the OA. Solved the first question quickly but faced an odd function signature mismatch error in the second question, even though I hadn't changed the function type. Despite this, my logic was mostly correct. Didn't expect to proceed further, but...

• January 22, 2025 – Received an interview shortlisting! Scheduled my interview for January 29.

• January 29, 2025 – First-round interview went really well. Got a call within five minutes for the second round.

  • was asked to implement a BST, after a bit of to and fro conversation, I understood he wanted me to build a self balancing BST. Took some time to recall AVL Tree and told him whatever I had remembered. Then he asked me to start implementing.

  • Had to discuss the design of my backend project (wasn't able to implement it but explained verbally) I haven't done any system design.

  • Started implementing the BST, but midway, the interviewer left and when he came back, paused me and said he understood what I was trying to do but was missing one or two things but that was okay and that we should end the test.

  • Asked a few questions before wrapping up, it was a good conversation. Had mixed feelings about this round, but I remained hopeful.

• February 8, 2025 – Action Centre status updated to Not Selected.

Poured my heart and soul into the preparation, only to be crushed back to level 0. Feeling very crushed and sad at the moment. Gave interviews for Amazon and Microsoft so far and rejected at both. I am sad that I am wasting my time and that I am not good enough. I don't think it's worth it to be any hopeful. I take a lot of guidance and have worked a lot to improve. This interview was so much better than my last interview. But only to be rejected. Anyway congratulations to those who are able to get through.