I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Ocrolus in May 2026
Interview
The interview process for a Senior Software Engineer position took place in May 2026 and consisted of five rounds: an initial HR screen, a technical round, a system design round, a leadership discussion, and a final executive conversation.
I received consistently positive feedback throughout the panel. However, communication completely stalled for two weeks following the final round, after which I received an automated, generic rejection stating the company decided to move forward with another candidate. It was disappointing to see a lack of transparency and communication at the final stage after dedicating so much time to their comprehensive loop.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The technical round lasted one hour. The first half was a conversation regarding technical background, and the second half focused on an object-oriented design and coding exercise where I was asked to implement a class to handle a specific business logic scenario.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Ocrolus (Bengaluru) in Apr 2026
Interview
Overall Process:
The process consisted of multiple rounds including a technical coding round followed by a system design discussion.
Technical Round:
The coding round covered:
Implementing a basic mock of an Elasticsearch-like system (indexing + querying concepts)
Classic problem: Product of array except self
System Design Round:
This round was not upto the mark with a typical system design evaluation.
Instead of discussing system design concepts (like scalability, architecture, trade-offs, etc.), the interviewer focused primarily on language-specific questions in golang such as:
what is the role of Go's built-in testing package?
Explain how function calls work in Go
What are the key differences between value types and reference types in Go?
These questions are more suited for a language fundamentals round rather than system design.
Feedback / Observation:
The structure and intent of the system design round felt unclear.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Ocrolus (New York, NY) in Sept 2022
Interview
Rounds: 1 Recruiter, 1 Hiring Manager, 1 coding, 1 system design, 1 VP Engineering. Total time about 4 hours. Standard interview process with LC type question and system design. Was able to get a good understanding of the product and vision by speaking with each interview at every round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DS&A knowledge for the coding portion (LC-like question). System design somewhat related to product: Build a micro service that does X to achieve Y goals.
