I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at PubMatic (Pune) in Sept 2025
Interview
Very smooth interview process. HR reached over a call for a screening process. R1 - Technical with linear data structure based questions, Java basics, R2 - Low Level Design, R3 - High Level Design
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Linear data structure based questions, design LRU cache, Java and spring boot basics
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at PubMatic (Pune)
Interview
I was interviewed for senior SWE role, the interviewer was also having same experience as mine but more on Spark and Data stuff and no backend, cloud. Contrary I was good at Backend, cloud.
He asked me Leetcode style question, K- Anagrams, unfortunately I'd never seen this questions before and took extra time
No question related to experience, cloud, backend, data engineering
First round was problem solving which involved question related to linkled list and basic problem solving involved sliding window and hash map and some operating system questions . The second round was on multi threaded and third round supposed to be design round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question were easy on linked list and basic problem solving