I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Kickdrum (Bengaluru) in Jul 2018
Interview
Interview process started off with an online coding round which had 2 problems - one for testing data structures and algo, and other for SQL expertise.
This was followed by 2 face to face rounds and 2 telephonic rounds.
1st round was a technical design related round with one of their developers. It tested on
Database concepts, basic system design concepts like using proper data structures, etc.
2nd round was a purely technical one on past company projects, some language (Java) related specifics like concurrecny, collections, etc.
3rd and 4th rounds were with company's Principals based in US.
One of them was a purely informal one with questions ranging from biggest success, biggest failures to project delivery time estimation, etc, and other one was purely technical one with questions around DBs, Java fundamentals, one code review.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There is a search engine which searches on any user query based on user's region. There is a service which queries a SQL database to fetch the result but recently it has started to timeout a lot. Can you give some reason as to why and any possible remediation for the same?
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Kickdrum (Sonipat) in Oct 2025
Interview
I recently appeared for a company interview that had four technical rounds followed by an eliminatory HR round. Each round tested different skills like problem-solving, communication, technical depth, and confidence. The experience was challenging but helped me understand my strengths and areas for improvement.
A pre placement talk in VIT vellore followed by an online assessment in our lab basic questions based on aptitude , dbms , OS networks gen Ai followed by 2 medium level coding questions what i got was number of islands modified but same and convert string to number in ascending order
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Kickdrum (Bengaluru) in Jul 2025
Interview
The online assessment included two coding questions primarily focused on arrays. Additionally, there was a relatively easy quiz that covered fundamental concepts from Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks, Database Management Systems, and a programming language of your choice.
