I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Arcesium (Bengaluru) in Jun 2020
Interview
3 rounds of technical interviews and 1 HR round.
First round was DSA round . Asked linked list priority queue questions
Second was System design round along with technical questions related to hashing and API design
Third was Director round . He asked me to explain my whole start up architecture High level design. Most critical issues that i have solved.
HR Round
Why you are not stable in any company. What are the reasons.
Salary negotiation.
My salary negotiation happened 3 times. What was discussed after 2nd negotiation was even reduced further in final offer discussion.
Later I got good offer from different company and then they gave counter offer which I have asked initially before 3 negotiation rounds.
Anyways I rejected them even after good counter offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement Priority queue .
Compare 2 strings in form of linked list each
Compare 2 numbers in form of linked list
Describe the architecture of spring boot .
Design Pizza delivery management system.
What is hashing and how to solve its collisions.
API related question for 2 huge DB table comparisons.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Arcesium (Bengaluru) in Sep 2024
Interview
This was the first of 4 rounds of interviews. It was supposed to be a coding round focusing on the skills required for the role instead of leetcode problems or algorithmic puzzles.
Surprisingly , the interview questions were more focused on tricking the candidate with edge cases rather than evaluating practical understanding of JavaScript. These kind of "gotcha" questions often don't reflect real-world coding tasks or assess any ability to solve meaningful problems. This seemed to be an isolated interviewer problem though. Many tech companies are shifting towards interviews that focus on actual problem-solving and collaboration.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Very nested and convoluted code snippet involving sync and async expressions, including combinations of timeouts, promises, constructors, micro and macrotasks.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Arcesium (Hyderābād) in Feb 2024
Interview
one on one interview with senior members. it was a one hour session. It went good. It is completely backend role interview. Asked about current role and work. after that we did some hacker-rank.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Java hacker rank link to solve two level sort using comparators
I applied online. I interviewed at Arcesium (Bengaluru) in Sep 2022
Interview
Online assessment.
2 interview rounds : both included data structures, algorithms and SQL.
Questions on core java, unchecked exceptions and super class and sub class.
Asked a tree and BFS related algorithm. Asked median of linked list.
