The interview was very nice. I didn't really know how to solve the problem, but he was still being pretty patient. I wasn't able to move forward because I actually didn't know the stuff. I would still call it a positive experience overall. Great practice for me!

A tech recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn in Feb, asking if interested in Full Stack position (4+ years exp), and after sending relevant details. I was shortlisted to complete a Karat (3rd party service to facilitate technical interviews on behalf of Splunk) pre-screening assessment. I was told that if we cleared this interview, we would be invited for onsite rounds. The Karat assessment contained 2 parts: 15 technical MCQ, Technical Interview . After completing the MCQ assesment, I scheduled my Splunk-Karat Interview. The 1 hour interview covered : Discussion and analysis: System Design and Programming challenge: Data Structures and Algorithms. I gave both initial and redo attempts and I believe I did significantly better on the redo attempt as I was just getting used to such different type of interviews in the first attempt. For DSA, you will be given 2 questions in 1 hour, and the expectation is to write fully functional code, run your program and verify against the given TCs. I had solved the first question completely, and although I gave the correct approach for the second question, I was not able to complete coding the second, because I took bit time in debugging the first. However, I did not hear back from the recruiter despite couple of follow-ups, maybe they already found other deserving candidates. Based on my experience I would suggest to schedule and complete both the Karat interviews ASAP, to maximize chance of going through.