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Hotstar Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 30 Aug 2022

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I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Aug 2021.

5 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

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Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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2

Coding Test Round

45 mins, Purely on DSA - Arrays, Strings, LinkedList, Trees

3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. System design round with focus on scalability
4

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Bar Raiser Round with focus on company culture and employee alignment
5

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary discussion and culture fit round

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Focus on basics and have the curiosity to learn. Please go through the company culture website and align your answers based on the culture.

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Interview experience
1
 Bad
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 No response

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Oct 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. DSA question with Some Stack
  • Q2. Discussion around Current project
2

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Managerial discussion around resume and some basic java and spring question
  • Q2. Java and spring boot question
Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in May 2024.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. What is event loop, how it works.
  • Q2. Micro task queue and macro task queue.
  • Q3. Is node.js single threaded or multi-threaded, also discuss threadpool and it's usages.
  • Q4. Tell the order of output, among process, promise, setTimeout, fs, setInterval.
2

Technical Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. JavaScript usages compiler or interpreter.
  • Q2. Tell the output among various for loops using var, let and bind.
  • Q3. A medium level dsa question on array, solved it using pre-sum.
  • Q4. Situation based question, on how to pick a suitable database.
3

Technical Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. What do you do on daily basis, and how to decide a tech-stack on high level.
  • Q2. Design an online scalable, real-time document sharing application like google docs.
  • Q3. How to handle images also in the future.
  • Q4. Any other way to solve the problem, of high I/O on same document to overcome throughput and conflicts.
Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 Not Selected

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Questions were crayon box ,the bot and the game and happy neighbourhood for 90 mins

2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Array basics was asked
  • Q2. Segment tree,prefix sum
3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Low level design was asked
Interview experience
1
 Bad
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Design Booking Management System

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

DSA Problems from leetcode

2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Basics about Android and iOS
Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 No response

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Aug 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Coding Test Round

I was asked question on sliding window on finding the largest subarray with all distinct numbers. The interviewer was very helpful.

Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions

Porter user image Namrata Chatekar

posted on 25 Jul 2024

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Leetcode medium coding question
Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 Easy
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Oct 2022.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
2

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Coding questions was leecode replace 3 concurrent character in string until there is none
  • Q2. You can google the answer
3

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Here also leetcode easy
  • Q2. Easily solvable

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Do not join this company they, will not last long as they business model they working on of flawed, since chatgpt came they know it vary well.

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Jan 2022.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Fundamentals and Basics of android, projects you are worked on.
2

Assignment Round

It was sort of pair programming where you will be told to implement some feature. Here they check your coding style, your approach and the architecture you follow.

3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Advanced android questions were asked and some scenario based questions.
4

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. It was managerial round, most discussion were on my projects and past experience.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Brushing up fundamentals and basics, aware of latest tech stack would help.

Hotstar Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Hotstar Senior Software Engineer interview?
Hotstar interview process usually has 5 rounds. The most common rounds in the Hotstar interview process are Technical, Resume Shortlist and Coding Test.
How to prepare for Hotstar Senior Software Engineer interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Hotstar. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Hotstar expect are Distribution System, Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, Coding and Computer science.
What are the top questions asked in Hotstar Senior Software Engineer interview?

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