I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Target (Bengaluru) in May 2019
Interview
Had first round through telephonic, it was good. Interview is all about my resume and work experience.
Later they given case study and invited for F2F rounds.
Had 3 rounds of F2F interviews.
First round was bit technical and it was okay okay. Interviewer not interested in overall design he just keeps on asking what data structures am using.
Second round about the case study which given earlier, here also interviewer not interested in the actual design, code style and code conventions. He just asking how much time taken for solving the problem and did i referred any online sources. He was directly asking did this code really written by me or not.
Third round with Manager it was completely non technical. He was very rude and impatient. Once discussion was over he just told to leave by showing the exit door. Yes it's okay to say leave but the way he told was completely not acceptable.
I came from different city to attend the F2F interviews. They don't have proper etiquette to offer lunch or just directing the way for cafeteria.
Overall interviews are kind of okay but not good. By the interview process i can assume this role not meant for the people who are looking for challenging work. It's just for people who wants to do job by talking not by coding.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Target (Bengaluru) in May 2019
Interview
I got a call from HR directly. I faced 3 face to face rounds. 3rd round was taken by the project manager. All rounds happened on the same day. The interview panel was very polite and helpful. Prepare
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Mostly spring mvc, java, and questions from the technology you have worked on
2. Multithreading on hashmap. What could be the issue of using hashmap in a multithreaded environment?
3. Find longest unique subsequence in the given string
4. Find/Count unique elements in an integer array
5. count number of islands in a given binary matrix. 1 represents island and 0 as water. geeksforgeeks has this questions. Moving diagonally is not allowed
6. Design twitter timeline(feeds). database design, how you will handle caching. Discussed CAP theorem. Discussed Caching strategies.
7. System design to read a file which has data and operation to be performed give a line by line. Ex a=5, next line b= 10, next line a*b. This design extended to support float, doubles, boolean, vector and complex numbers. Like if the file has a=5+i8, then how you handle such scenarios. How you will store and process data.
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Target in Dec 2018
Interview
I really love how Target does their interviews - I don't have the best social skills, and they a lot more on the skills and explanation side of things.
I went through 2 phone interviews, one code review, and 3 back-to-back in-person interviews.