Kaleyra Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

It was college campus placement for the Software Engineer Professional role. There were 4 interview rounds. First was an online coding and aptitude round, then an in-person tech round, followed by a technical discussion round, and finally an HR discussion. The interviewers and the team seemed good.

I had previously worked at Kaleyra but left due to compensation. Still, I liked the growth there and decided to reapply with a referral from my manager. HR first talked about my current and past Kaleyra experience and my salary expectations for the staff engineer position. Then they set up three interview rounds: a technical round with a senior colleague, which I passed, and another technical round with a Senior Architect, which I also passed. The third round was with the Director, which got delayed by two weeks. This round was about leadership and salary. Even with my previous Kaleyra experience, they only offered a 25% salary increase on my current CTC, which wasn't right for a staff engineer. I asked for a change, but HR didn't follow up. When I reached out a week later, I found out they had paused my application because of the Tata Communication acquisition. If the interviews had been on time, I probably would have gotten the offer, but now there's been no call. It's frustrating because candidates put in a lot of time and effort, even taking leave for interviews. This kind of thing makes you lose trust.

The interview started with questions about my past projects, followed by computer networks and object-oriented programming. For computer networks, we discussed UDP and TCP. In OOPs, the topic was inheritance. It was a challenging interview.