SWARUP POKHARKAR

🌟 Interview Experience – FloQast

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🧪 Round 1: Online Assessment (OA)

• The Online Assessment consisted of 3 DSA problems,

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🧠 Round 2: Technical Interview

• The interview began with a detailed discussion on my internship experience, where I was asked to:

  • Explain my role and contributions
  • Justify technical decisions
  • Discuss challenges faced and how I resolved them

• This was followed by 2 LeetCode Medium–level DSA problems.

• My approach during problem-solving:

  • Started with a brute-force solution to establish correctness

  • Gradually optimized the solution while clearly explaining:

    • Time and space complexity
    • Trade-offs between different approaches
    • All edge cases and constraints

• The interviewer focused heavily on:

  • Depth of understanding rather than just the final answer
  • Clarity of thought and structured reasoning
  • Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively

• Both problems were solved within the interview, with optimized solutions and thorough explanations.

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🧩 Round 3: Managerial Interview

• The round started with an introduction, but with a unique twist.

• The interviewer explicitly mentioned:

  “I don’t want to know about your technical experience. I want to know you as a person.” This was followed by a discussion on:

  • My hobbies
  • My background
  • Why I chose Computer Engineering

• After the discussion, I was given open-ended problem statements:

  1. A college has three departments, and there is a subject that students from any department can opt for. The subject needs to be scheduled for 40 hours in a semester. How would you design the schedule?
  2. There are four electives, and a student can choose any two. How would you design a timetable to ensure there are no clashes or conflicts?

• These questions were intentionally ambiguous and tested:

  • Ability to ask clarifying questions
  • Understanding of constraints and assumptions
  • Translating real-world problems into structured solutions

• I approached them similar to system design interviews:

  • Clarified inputs and outputs
  • Identified constraints
  • Proposed a step-by-step, scalable solution

• The focus was clearly on thinking process, communication, and decision-making, not on textbook answers.

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🧑‍💼 Round 4: HR Interview

• This was a standard HR round covering:

  • Behavioral questions
  • Cultural fit
  • Career goals

• Compensation and role expectations were also discussed in detail.

• The round felt more like a two-way discussion rather than an interrogation.

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✅ Final Verdict

• Selected 🎉
• Out of all candidates, only 5 students received offers, making the process extremely selective.

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✨ Key Takeaways

• FloQast’s interview process strongly emphasizes:

  • Depth over surface-level knowledge
  • Structured thinking
  • Communication and authenticity

• Being clear, honest, and methodical mattered more than memorized answers.

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