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Twilio Senior TSE Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 4 Mar 2023

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Senior TSE Interview Questions & Answers

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posted on 4 Mar 2023

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Process Duration
2-4 weeks
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I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Mar 2022. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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Round 2 - One-on-one 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Virtual interview...resume related questions..work history and all.
  • Q2. Critical ticket recently taken care of
  • Ans. 

    Resolved critical ticket related to server downtime

    • Identified root cause as a hardware failure in the server

    • Coordinated with the hardware team to replace the faulty component

    • Ensured minimal downtime by implementing temporary measures

    • Communicated updates to the customer and provided timely resolution

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Why do you want to join technical support
Round 3 - Assignment 

Customer queries related assignment. It had 7-8 question. Open book type.

Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic HR questions related to your past work history.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be customer obsessed...go through company values.
Prepare your resume through.

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I applied via Campus Placement

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Questions on linked list, basic logic and an adhoc math problem. Questions were very doable, but time maybe the only constraint
Tips: Manage time, get used to fluently coding in C Java or C++. You wont have access to Internet, man pages during contest so practice coding g without them.
Duration: 3 minutes
Total Questions: 75

Skills:
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jan 2016. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. Finding a loop in a directed graph, find the last element in a binary tree
  • Ans. 

    To find a loop in a directed graph, use Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm. To find the last element in a binary tree, traverse the tree and return the rightmost leaf node.

    • For finding a loop in a directed graph, use Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm which uses two pointers moving at different speeds.

    • To find the last element in a binary tree, traverse the tree recursively or iteratively and return the rightmost leaf node.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. On circular queue and finding the last number which is highest and contains same number. Of digits a the given numbber
  • Ans. 

    The question is about finding the last number in a circular queue that has the highest number of digits.

    • Implement a circular queue data structure

    • Iterate through the circular queue to find the last number with the highest number of digits

    • Compare the number of digits of each number in the circular queue

    • Keep track of the last number with the highest number of digits

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Tell me your passions and what. Is the one thing I want to know about you

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Coding round based on logic was given
Tips: Practice coding
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 3

College Name: IIT Madras

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. Binary tree question. Check if left child is less than right child. Recursive and iterative implementation
  • Ans. 

    Check if left child is less than right child in a binary tree

    • Traverse the tree recursively and compare left and right child values

    • Use a stack to traverse the tree iteratively and compare left and right child values

    • Return true if all left children are less than right children, else false

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Check if a string is a substring in another string. Discussed speed (not time complexity). not neccessarily always correct but fast
  • Ans. 

    Use built-in string method to check substring presence for faster execution.

    • Use 'indexOf' method to check if substring is present in the main string.

    • If the method returns -1, the substring is not present.

    • If the method returns a non-negative integer, the substring is present.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Maze question. write code on paper in 5 mins. automatically check if function is correct (not testcases)

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Practice writing code on paper

College Name: IIT Madras

I applied via Campus Placement

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: A bit challenging but interesting.
Tips: 1) Solve as many problems as possible on the website "InterviewBit".
Duration: 75 minutes
Total Questions: 3

General Tips: Don't
Skill Tips: Need to have the ability to code on paper. This needs practice

Skills:
Duration: 2 months
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: An exciting company to work at.

I applied via Campus Placement

Interview Questionnaire 

6 Questions

  • Q1. Testing whether every left child's value is less than the right child's value in a binary tree
  • Ans. 

    To test if every left child's value is less than the right child's value in a binary tree.

    • Traverse the binary tree using any traversal algorithm (e.g., in-order, pre-order, post-order)

    • Compare the value of each left child with its right child

    • If any left child's value is greater than or equal to its right child's value, return false

    • If all left child's values are less than their right child's values, return true

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Cloning a linked list-like structure
  • Ans. 

    Cloning a linked list-like structure

    • Create a new node for each node in the original linked list

    • Set the value of the new node to the value of the corresponding node in the original linked list

    • Set the next pointer of the new node to the new node corresponding to the next node in the original linked list

    • Repeat the above steps until all nodes in the original linked list are cloned

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Finding the nth character in a stream of bytes
  • Ans. 

    To find the nth character in a stream of bytes, we need to read the stream byte by byte until we reach the nth position.

    • Start reading the stream byte by byte until you reach the nth position

    • Return the byte at the nth position

    • If the stream ends before reaching the nth position, return null or throw an exception

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. Rearranging a string so no consecutive characters are the same
  • Ans. 

    Rearrange a string to avoid consecutive same characters.

    • Iterate through the string and keep track of the previous character.

    • If the current character is the same as the previous, swap it with the next different character.

    • Repeat until no consecutive same characters are left.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. Finding the next highest palindrome
  • Ans. 

    The task is to find the next highest palindrome number given a number.

    • Convert the given number to a string

    • Check if the number is already a palindrome

    • If not, increment the number by 1 and check if it is a palindrome

    • Repeat the previous step until a palindrome is found

  • Answered by AI
  • Q6. To canonicalize a directory path
  • Ans. 

    Canonicalizing a directory path involves simplifying and standardizing the path to remove any redundant or unnecessary elements.

    • Remove any consecutive slashes and replace them with a single slash

    • Remove any trailing slashes

    • Resolve any relative paths (e.g., '..' and '.')

    • Handle special cases like the root directory ('/')

    • Normalize the path by removing any unnecessary elements

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: The test started an hour late, which could have been avoided with some better planning. The test experience was pretty good for me since I am used to using HackerRank's online platform for competitive coding.
Tips: Maybe a little sample session before the actual test would help.
Duration: 75 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I enjoyed the interview experience; the panel was friendly and encouraging.

General Tips: Nice interview, questions were well thought out.
Skills: Algorithms And Data Structures
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: What interests me about Microsoft is the nature and the scale of the work they're doing. Every day they impact billions of people worldwide, and I would love to be a part of this organization.

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Campus Placement

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Algorithmic Coding, Testing, Databases & other CS Concepts

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Decent knowledge of coding was needed.Speed was of essence.
Tips: Practice coding and be quick.
Duration: 75 minutes
Total Questions: 3

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I had 3 technical interviews.The interviewers were very friendly.It involved writing paper on code which required me to be very precise and error free.
Tips: Practice coding.Practice writing code on paper and thinking out loud.

General Tips: Prepare well and be confident.
Skills: Unit Testing, Implementation Of Code Using OOPS, Database, Algorithms And Data Structures
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: Microsoft.The company speaks

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016. There were 6 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. Coding Questions and Thinking Process Analysis.
  • Q2. Analysis about app performance
  • Ans. 

    App performance analysis involves identifying and resolving bottlenecks to improve user experience.

    • Collect and analyze performance metrics such as response time, CPU usage, memory usage, and network latency.

    • Identify and prioritize bottlenecks based on impact on user experience and frequency of occurrence.

    • Implement optimizations such as caching, code refactoring, and database tuning.

    • Continuously monitor and test perform...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Discussion about the project mentioned in resume.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Two questions were given and we are supposed to write code for the same.
Tips: Whatever idea is there, just discuss with interviewer.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 2

Round: Problem Statement
Experience: You have to solve the question for next round.
Tips: Practice coding well.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: A coding question was given, but much difficult one, they were looking for approach.
Tips: Share your thought Process Clearly.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: A full depth project round was there. They asked my role and responsibility.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: An application was given to you and you have to make it better the way you can.

Skills: Technical Questions, Technical Analysis, Ability To Cope Up With Stress
College Name: IIT Madras

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2016. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Data structures

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: 3 coding questions.
Tips: Prepare data structures well
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 3

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: 2 coding questions on prem and paper.
Tips: Consider all test cases, provide comments on code
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Mostly checked problem solving skills, some questions regarding your project, operating systems
Tips: Be confident, try and get the hints provided

College Name: IIT Madras

I applied via Campus Placement

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Given a string of unknown length, what is a good approach to find n-k th element from last
  • Ans. 

    To find n-k th element from last in a string of unknown length

    • Traverse the string to find its length

    • Calculate the position of n-k th element from last

    • Traverse the string again to find the element at calculated position

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Given an array of strings, count the number of unique occurrences
  • Ans. 

    Count the number of unique occurrences in an array of strings.

    • Create a hash table to store the count of each string occurrence.

    • Iterate through the array and update the count in the hash table.

    • Count the number of unique occurrences by counting the number of keys in the hash table.

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: They checked my CGPA and my projects worked on. They also looked at previous internship I have done
Tips: Focus on CGPA and projects done. Also mention internship experience.

Round: Test
Experience: Easier questions and good amount of time to think.
Tips: Careful with IDE.
Duration: 60min minutes
Total Questions: 2

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Enough time to think,solve. Questions were easy and only tested basic understanding of ds and algos.
Tips: Think well. They do not expect complete optimal solution. Discuss your ideas with members there

Round: Technical Interview
Tips: They do not expect optimal solution. they want to know thought process

General Tips: Be thorough in course work being done at present.
Revise the projects you have done in your semester
Skills: Data Structures, Algorithms, Probability theory, Basics of Machine Learning
Duration: 2 months
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: Microsoft !

Skills evaluated in this interview

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