ADCI - Karnataka Software Engineer interview: leadership principles and design

I began with an online assessment that combined Amazon leadership-principles behavioral questions with coding. After I passed it, I went to in-person interviews. The first was with the hiring manager and was mostly behavioral, with many leadership-principles questions plus discussion of my past experience and projects.

Near the end of that sequence, I had a system-design coding problem. Then I met a couple of engineers in separate rounds, where the focus returned to technical problem solving. One interview included a LeetCode-style problem that I worked through while explaining my thinking and discussing the solution.

I reached the final interviews but was not offered the role. The hardest part was juggling leadership-principles stories, system design, and coding without losing clarity.

Location: Haifa. Overall feedback: negative. Offer status: no offer.