I applied online. I interviewed at Lab49 in May 2024
Interview
The live coding interview had some basic tasks like fetching an endpoint and in the end a relatively easy algorithmic task like finding a given sequence in an array. The endpoint fetching involved handling pagination as well.
The whole interview process had quite a few rounds but my case could have been special because I didn't mind it because I had interviews with other companies at the time
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the live coding part of the interview process they haven't really asked questions but rather provided the task list.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Lab49 (Noida) in Feb 2021
Interview
Unscrupulous with their approach to hire.
Firstly the GRM (PMP ji) was sceptical on my candidature for their location. She asked for a email written on actually accepting to work in particular location post Covid. Being a global company it looked cheap for asking to do this. This review I'm just writing down to make ION group understand that I was serious about this job.
Round 1 was easy, interviewer was interacting and peer programmed as informed before, pointing out at mistakes and helping to get output. All 6/6 questions was solved. I was really happy end of the interview. Cheers to the interviewers spirit.
Round 2 was of medium difficulty the interviewer never bothered to interact much. Replied only when I asked. But most time he was muted. In the middle of interview, I genuinely had an internet connection issue. I tried hard to get back but whenever I typed, it never was persisted and was resetting the programming window, it was stressful situation. Which the interviewer understood and asked if we could reschedule some other time. Thanks for atleast assuring that.
No update days.
For 3 days I didn't hear back from HR. I emailed and stated that, we had an internet outage and interview didn't go as expected. Interviewer asked if we can reschedule but I didn't hear back from HR team.
Rejection:
If they where professional they would have got back with alternative, But looks like already they found out I'm not fit for this position. Which felt like they where being judgemental and roguish.
My verdict:
Since most meetings were in US time zone. It is understood that we may have to work during this time atleast for sync ups. There were multiple cancellation and urgent meeting postpone events on fixed meeting throughout the process which felt, they are not sticking to time and are not serious about candidates time. Well everything happens for good.
Job location : Noida
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
round 1
Codility excercises. 6 problems which was supposed to be solved with choice of your language. I chose JavaScript. it was basics of using map,filter and apply functions. They allowed even to search api documentation if needed. Most questions where easy and on string manipulation and passing the trst cases
round 2.
3 codility exercises. Hard difficulty than previous round. Big questions again
# Sum, multiplication of array of array keeping order of output array to be same as 1st array
#SQL implementation of JSON objects. given two objects with data. implement a function that asserts like executing SQL queries
#String manipulation with regex.