I applied in-person. I interviewed at Freshworks (Chennai) in Aug 2018
Interview
I got the mail through LinkedIn from their head of HR then I applied and got telephonic in 1 week then went to onsite after 2 weeks.
1)Telephonic Round
2)4 round onsite (3 Coding + 1 Tech HR)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Telephonic
1)Project explanation in my case but for some cases, they can ask for coding on collabedit
Onsite
1)Explain your project, Lca of bst first then LCA of the binary tree. Distinct substrings count in a string
2)Design facebook feed system, Find whether 2 trees are a mirror image to each other?
3)Design tiny URL, Basic oops of java, Java garbage collector.
4)HR ask the general question will you relocate or not it will be general if your above rounds went better..
Had 4 rounds of interview excluding the screening.
1. DSA and Problem Solving. - Leetcode Medium Questions
2. LLD - Feature Flag system
3. HLD - Youtube comment section design
4. Hiring Manager - Deep Dive Round on Design and prvious projects
Not a very supportive interviewer.
Was asked to share leetcode profile, and then interviewer pasted the questions in meet link. Not much chance provided to discuss approach and thought process. Was told to solve the question right away(interviewer) also asked how long it would take to solve the question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
2 Leetcode Medium questions related to Binary Search with backtracking
I applied online. I interviewed at Freshworks (Chennai) in Mar 2025
Interview
I applied through LinkedIn recruited call me and provided the study material for that Interview. The interview took place at the Freshworks office, and it was a in-person (P2P) interview, with no virtual interview option available. The interview lasted the entire day over the weekend.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All basic to advanced level JavaScript question like Closure, Hoisting, this operator, Event delegation, Event propagation, Promise, Event loop etc.,
Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Freshworks with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 53% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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