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Motive (keeptrückin) maintains a role-specific interview structure that balances technical depth with domain-specific competencies. Engineering roles emphasize practical system architecture and quality assurance, while non-engineering roles focus on strategic product management and behavioral alignment.
The candidate participated in a pool hiring process for a SWE Intern role at Motive (Keeptrückin). After three rounds of interviews, including coding, technical, and HR rounds, the candidate was selected.
Four DSA questions were asked, with three medium and one hard difficulty. All questions were solved within 25 minutes out of a 90-minute duration.
Candidates were shortlisted based on their resumes, with preference given to those with previous internship experience.
One medium LeetCode DSA question was asked. The interviewer evaluated different approaches, tested edge cases, and discussed time complexity (TC) and space complexity (SP) for each approach.
Three projects from the resume were discussed in detail. One medium DSA question (similar to a LeetCode problem) was asked. Discussion included previous internship work, DBMS concepts, and schema design for a Zomato-like application. HR questions were also asked at the end.
The interview process was considered to be of average difficulty and focused on a specific system design problem.
The candidate was asked to design a specific internal system used by the company.
Design a specific internal system architecture based on provided requirements.
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