1. Initial Screening A brief discussion with a recruiter or technical screener. Covered my background, experience, and suitability for the role. Basic questions around cloud platforms, DevOps tools, and CI/CD practices. 2. Technical Assessment (Take-home Assignment) I was given a scenario-based assessment focused on designing a cloud infrastructure for a web application with: Multi-region deployment Low latency and high availability Data synchronization across regions Backend and frontend stack integration Required to submit a detailed architecture document and diagram. 3. Technical Interview / Review (Expected) A deeper discussion around the submitted architecture: Design decisions and trade-offs Services selected (e.g., RDS vs DynamoDB, CloudFront vs alternatives) Handling scalability, latency, security, and consistency Likely includes questions on: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) CI/CD pipeline setup Observability, cost optimization, and automation 4. Final Round (Culture/Team Fit) (if applicable) Interaction with team members or leadership Focus on collaboration style, problem-solving approach, and long-term fit

The interview started with a brief self-introduction, followed by questions about my coding experience, including how many coding problems I had solved on the NQT platform. The interviewer then asked me to write a sorting algorithm on paper, explain its logic, and modify it to sort the array in descending order. After that, the discussion moved to C programming concepts such as `malloc()` and `calloc()`, including their differences and use cases. The interviewer also asked fundamental DBMS questions and SQL queries, including writing a query to find the second-highest salary from an Employee table. Later, I was asked to explain the projects mentioned in my resume, focusing on the technologies used, my contributions, challenges faced, and how I solved them. The interview concluded with several situation-based questions to assess my problem-solving ability, communication skills, and approach to handling real-world workplace scenarios.