I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Kickdrum (Bengaluru) in Feb 2018
Interview
First there was a codepair round (1 hour)... a dynamic programming problem. not so hard...simple. some SQL question, data structure questions...
Then they invited for F2F interview rounds... They informed me that there will be 3 F2F rounds and then 1-2 telephonic rounds with USA counterparts..
I had 2 F2F rounds of interview and then I was told that they are keeping my candidature on hold.
What I have felt that their current projects are on Java, SQL, AWS tech stack.. so they are looking for experts on these technologies only. In websites, they have written that they would look out for any tech expertise...but, I think their decisions are mostly based on current project specific requirement. I had a different expectation though :)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design Tiny URL services... AWS questions.
SQL questions, challanges... lot of stress on strategies on optimizing SQL query executions on very large SQL dbs. They would bring you couple of their project challenges and ask for your thoughts.
Hi,
Thanks for sharing your experience. It is unfortunate we had put your candidature on hold. Apologies. Please share your profile to jobs@kickdrutech.com. We will be glad to reconsider your profile for our current openings.
Thanks,
Kickdrum team
Other Principal Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Kickdrum
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Kickdrum (Bengaluru) in Sep 2018
Interview
There were totally 5 rounds of interview where I could clear only 3 of them and got rejected in the 4th round. The interview experience was great with people of different areas discussing and asking questions.
I had a very good learning experience and the interviewers made me feel totally comfortable. The interviewers were highly professional and respectful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions related to algorithms on trees and designing complete systems.