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Spring Boot Machine Coding Round and Lessons From 13 Interviews and 5 Offers

NielsenSoftware Engineer · Other · May 2026

I spent about 3-4 months preparing, and I kept prep and applying separate instead of doing both at once. In the end I interviewed with 13 companies and got offers from 5 of them. Most were startups, with a few big multinationals in the mix. What worked best for me was starting with the problems that come up most often, for both DSA and design. For DSA I went through a popular 150-problem list, an…

Shared by a candidate · reported May 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.