I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Motive (Bengaluru) in Apr 2025
Interview
Normal . Many rounds. hr round , then manager round, then round 1 and 2 on dsa stuff , not too complex.
Then system design , VP round etc.
Practice DSA, system design, polish your resume . Good offer
It had 6 rounds...
1 Recruiter SCreening ( Short video call on Gmeet, about basic alignment and fit )
2 DSA rounds ( both were 1 hour, 1 question and thn 2 questions )
1 System Design
1 Real world challenge
1 EM Round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked me to discuss about the most difficult work I had done so far
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Motive in Aug 2025
Interview
7 rounds of interview spanning over a month, each eliminating and at the end a nondescript rejection mail with no feedback whatsoever. Had to redo the machine coding round cause the api they came with was broken. So essentially 8 rounds and still not even the courtesy to explain the rejection. Apart from the last system design round which was at best average, I aced all the other round. 1 recruiter screening, 3 coding rounds, 1 machine coding, 1 system design, 1 hr manager round. Apparently they like to pretend they are Faang with none of the courtesy or professionalism.