65 companies targeted
34 referrals
17 interviews
12 rejections
5 offers

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India created history today!
Our women’s team just lifted the 2025 World Cup, pure goosebumps moment🔥

To celebrate this victory, I’m giving 50% OFF on my System Design Guide for every engineer who dreams big like Team India 💪

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Let’s celebrate excellence, on the field and in your career :)

10 projects that will get you shortlisted at MNCs

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajatgajbhiye_10-projects-that-will-get-you-shortlisted-activity-7391059446375911424-IuPs

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Recently, I got a 20LPA Job Offer from Oracle
Position: Backend Engineer

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajatgajbhiye_recently-i-got-a-20lpa-job-offer-from-oracle-activity-7391319254731673600-iRlG

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Recently, I got a 20LPA Job Offer from Oracle
Position: Backend Engineer

𝗣𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱
- Intro: Brief discussion about my background, tech stack, projects, current role & motivations
- A couple of “theory + practical” Java questions (difference between interface and abstract class, synchronization)

𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 (𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 / 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴)
- Given a tree, find the diameter (longest path)
- Given an array of integers, find count of subarrays whose sum equals K
- Difference between HashMap and ConcurrentHashMap
- How you’d handle thread safety in a microservice
- Write a small snippet for producer-consumer using wait/notify or blocking queue

𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 (𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 + 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲)
- High-level: Design a URL shortening service
- How to handle high traffic / scaling / rate limit
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- Asked me to explain one of my past features in detail (end to end)
- How modules communicate, failure modes, retries, fallback logic
- GC strategies, memory leaks, class loaders
- How to debug production issues (thread dumps, monitoring, alerting)
- How services communicate (sync vs async), circuit breakers, idempotency
- Database scaling (read replicas, partitioning)

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- Leadership/initiative: times you improved an existing system or took ownership
- Roadmap alignment: what you want to do in 1–2 years, how your growth looks

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Dear Software Developers, a gentle reminder to:

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22 LPA at Deloitte

These were the EXACT questions asked in 2025

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajatgajbhiye_22-lpa-at-deloitte-these-were-the-exact-activity-7392548661223665664-fHGW

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Atlassian Interview Experience
Compensation: 54LPA
Position: Senior Software Engineer
Application Method: Direct Application

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajatgajbhiye_atlassian-interview-experience-compensation-activity-7392779829865234432-l1Q6

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Microservices were HARD

Until you go through these notes

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajatgajbhiye_microservices-activity-7392930046803591168-MIiX

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Priya decided to study System Design this SUNDAY,
& followed these YouTube videos:
1. Introduction to Load Balancing 🤓
2. Basics of REST APIs 🥱
3. Top 5 Mistakes People Do in System Design Interviews 🤔
4. How can a # crash Amazon's Delivery system for 6 hours
5. Aman Gupta’s ₹50 Cr Yacht Party in Goa That Broke the Internet 🤩
6. Shocking Truth About Nikhil Kamath’s ₹100 Crore Stock Bet 😳
7. Unseen Photos from Virat & Anushka’s Maldives Vacation 😍
8. Easy Recipe for Mumbai Vada Pav at Home 🌭

And now Priya is preparing… Vada Pav ❤️

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I screwed up 3 interviews because I couldn't explain my projects properly.

Here is how you can explain your project in an interview

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajatgajbhiye_i-screwed-up-3-interviews-because-i-couldnt-activity-7393536659448995840-iBsw

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I wasn’t rejected for bad System Design...
(And that rejection cost me a ₹30 LPA opportunity.)

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajatgajbhiye_i-wasnt-rejected-for-bad-system-design-activity-7393645071587491840-xWLL

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PhonePe pays around 44-50LPA for SWE-2 and 80-85LPA for Senior SWE

This is the classic question they generally ask

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajatgajbhiye_phonepe-pays-around-44-50lpa-for-swe-2-and-activity-7394003631689318401-D6B2

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Give me 2 minutes,

I’ll tell you how to get interview calls

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajatgajbhiye_give-me-2-minutes-ill-tell-you-how-to-activity-7394321191940833280-cxoE

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3 months.
5 offers.
1 final call → 26 LPA.

Here’s what really worked for me:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajatgajbhiye_3-months-5-offers-1-final-call-26-lpa-activity-7394374088728657920-MTzu

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Meta – 85% rounds are (DSA + System Design)
Google – 80% (DSA + System Design)
Amazon – 70% (DSA + System Design)
Microsoft – 75% (DSA + System Design)

If you want to clear any Software Engineer interviews, the formula is simple System Design and DSA

Here are the 16 most asked questions on these topics:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajatgajbhiye_meta-85-rounds-are-dsa-system-design-activity-7394592926510759937-AIc1

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Priya decided to study System Design today,
& followed these YouTube videos:
1. Introduction to Load Balancing 🤓
2. Basics of REST APIs 🥱
3. Top 5 Mistakes People Do in System Design Interviews 🤔
4. How can a # crash Amazon's Delivery system for 6 hours
5. Aman Gupta’s ₹50 Cr Yacht Party in Goa That Broke the Internet 🤩
6. Shocking Truth About Nikhil Kamath’s ₹100 Crore Stock Bet 😳
7. Unseen Photos from Virat & Anushka’s Maldives Vacation 😍
8. Easy Recipe for Mumbai Vada Pav at Home 🌭

And now Priya is preparing… Vada Pav ❤️

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Just remember,

You are what you EAT 🤷🏽‍♂️
Not just the food you eat, but also the CONTENT which you consume on the internet.

I repeat,
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First time: I froze, lost 21LPA offer
Second time: I smiled, got 26LPA offer

In one interview, I was asked:
- Why does WhatsApp instantly show ‘typing…’ even if your friend is on the other side of the world?

I froze. I didn’t know the answer. And yes, I got rejected. But instead of moving on, I went deeper into the questions and learned.

In another interview, two weeks later, I faced the same question. I smiled and explained:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajatgajbhiye_first-time-i-froze-lost-21lpa-offer-second-activity-7394735766586818560-Nyn1

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