Compass Senior Software Engineer interview questions

Round 1: (Karat.com) External Interviewing agency: Part 1: Verbal Q & A in which I was asked me to chose 2 categories out of 4(OO, Testing, Cloud Computing, System Design) . 2 questions where asked from each chosen category. the questions where good. Part 2: 1 or 2 coding questions, related to Data structures, they ware Easy to Medium, category. over all the interview process was good. Round 2: (Google Meet) with Compass Senior Engineer - Coding Round (Algo): I was given a question related to recursion back tracking approach. I quickly started coding, failed to understand the tricky part and come up with a buggy solution (fails for backtracking required input datasets). Understanding the issue towards the end, wrote sudo code and walked the engineer through it (due to lack of time to code). for which I was rejected. Overall the process was really good, I liked it. I also got to see the detailed feedbacks from each round. I can say one of the detailed and clear interview assessments I have seen so far.

3 Coding interview rounds, 1 System Design round , 1 Hiring Manager round, 1 HR round Interview experience was good in initial round. They hired some external vendor for first round. Coding interview rounds are based on data structures nothing related to skills of the candidate. If you are LeetCode ninja you can do well in these rounds. They didn’t even cared to share the feedback on what went wrong. Respect candidates time and provide feedback. I'll ever attend any interview for this company in future.