1p3a Experience · Mar 2026

Eightfold.AI Lead Backend SDE-3 Interview HM Coding and HLD

SWE System Design

Interview Experience

Sharing my interview experience for SDE-3(lead) engineer role at Eightfold.ai ###

Round 1 HM Mostly discussed around past projects, your contribution and behavioral questions ###

Round 2 Coding + HL

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Sharing my interview experience for SDE-3(lead) engineer role at Eightfold.ai ###

Round 1 HM Mostly discussed around past projects, your contribution and behavioral questions ###

Round 2 Coding + HLD

You receive strings one by one from a stream. After each insertion, you must output: the oldest string that has appeared exactly once so far If no such string exists,

**return** ""

**Example** Stream: a, b, a, c, b, d After each insert: insert a → oldest non-repeating = a insert b → a insert a → b insert c → b insert b → c insert d → c Output: a, a, b, b, c, c

For

HLD Design Notification Service.

About This Question

This is a candidate experience report from a eightfold ai interview for a swe role during the system design round reported in 2026.

It covers the following topics: Strings, Behavioral .