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The interview process for Lending Club's SSE role consisted of multiple rounds, including HR screening, technical coding rounds, system design, and a personal assessment. Candidates were evaluated on coding skills, problem-solving, system design, and behavioral aspects. The outcome is not explicitly mentioned.
30-minute telephonic round with an HR recruiter discussing motivation for applying, background, current projects, challenges faced, and a CI/CD-related question.
60-minute telephonic round with an SSE. Candidates were provided with code to fix, identify issues such as memory leaks, file handle leaks, and SQL injection attacks, and ensure test cases pass.
15-minute onsite round with an HR representative introducing the company and its technology stack.
Coding and architectural/system design round with an architect. Tasks included merging sorted linked lists and solving architectural/system design questions.
Merge sorted linked list
Architectural/System Design
45-minute coding round with an SSE. Topics included detecting linked list cycles, generating permutations of a string, and analyzing hashmap operations with a focus on Big O complexity.
Linked list cycle detection
Permutation of a string
Hashmap question with Big O analysis
45-minute coding round with an SSE. Tasks involved implementing a hashmap from scratch without resizing the internal array, analyzing Big O complexity, and improving it using binary trees.
Implement a hashmap without resizing
Big O analysis of hashmap operations
Improve Big O from O(n) to O(log n) using binary trees
Complete hashmap implementation using an array with binary tree entries
System design round with a product manager. Focused on designing a system for Lending Club, including database design (RDBMS), REST API, and generating various reports based on requirements.
System design for a lending platform
Database design
REST API design
Report generation requirements
Personal assessment round with a director/hiring manager. Discussed motivation for joining Lending Club and behavioral questions about handling situations, conflicts, and resolving issues.
Why Lending Club?
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