I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at HolidayIQ (Bengaluru) in Dec 2017
Interview
There were 5 rounds.
1st and 2nd Round:
-Common DS and Algo questions like reverse a linked list, find palindromic substring, standard sorting algorithm
- Joins in MYSQL
-The interviewer asked me to write complete working code on paper for some of the problems.
3rd Round: Taken By EM
- Design HolidayIQ Vendor system (APIs and DB schema)
-MySQL queries to extract data from the given schema
-Web apps optimization techniques
4th Round: Taken by CTO
-It was more kind of a discussion about the products what they are working on and technologies they are using.He is a very friendly person.
-Also a simple design problem, How to design a feature like "Notify Me" which is available in Flipkart for sold out products(DB Schema)?
5th Round: HR Round
- General HR Discussion like Do you like traveling?Why do you want to join the HolidayIQ?How do you see your life?
Overall it was a good experience, Got offer letter on the next day.But didn't join since got a good offer from other company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the most common range in a set of ranges?
For eg. Input - [(5,10),(8,15),(12,17),(14,18),(1,4)]
So Answer is (14,15)
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at HolidayIQ (New Delhi) in Feb 2018
Interview
Campus interview held on February 2018.
Hiring process is over in one day. They have selected 4 students from our college.
Process:
1. Written test: 60 mins
Questions about some simple programs to write, questions about SQL queries, datastructure.
That day only they have shortlisted the students and further process started.
2. F2F technical round interview, they have taken one more technical for who is not done well in first technical round.
3. HR round
Interview is based on only the problem solving abilities. The problems will be based on how you write code with minimum complexity and lesser memory utilization . Know well about complexities and how to solve problems
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
find pair of elements which sums up to 9 in one array pass