I am a final-year computer science engineering student from the best college in Kerala under KTU. KeyValue conducted an off-campus drive for the position of Associate Software Engineer Trainee / Associate Test Engineer Trainee / Associate DevOps Engineer Trainee / Associate Data Annotator Trainee. The offered CTC is 7.5 Lakhs / 5.5 Lakhs Per Annum depending on the role (includes a 30K joining bonus). Eligibility criteria include all branches, no minimum CGPA, and not more than 3 back papers. The whole interview process at KeyValue is very exhausting. The first round was an online assessment round through Shreds, where they tested aptitude skills and knowledge in core CS fundamentals mainly OOP and DBMS. There were also questions on the prediction of output from code fragments. The second round was a coding assessment round for which I had to come to Kochi from Trivandrum. The third round was a technical interview, and I was asked to come to their office in Kochi. As my college was in Trivandrum, I had to travel approximately 200 km for the interview. There were 2 interview rounds scheduled for the same day. The first interview was easy, mainly asking questions of logical thinking, merge sort, and a 2D array coding question. The second interview round was a bit more difficult and asked coding questions on binary trees and graphs. I managed to clear both interviews. Shortly after, I received a call from HR in their office and had to again come to Kochi, missing my college classes. But upon reaching Kochi, I understood that they are actually going to conduct a third technical interview and fooled all of us who reached there, claiming it would be HR. In that round, I was asked a system design question to implement file structure and a coding question on binary trees to delete the deepest node. There were also questions on DNS servers and the booting process in computers. I managed to answer all the questions but had to wait for 7 long hours in their office waiting for the result. Even after waiting for 7 hours, they didn't announce the result, and I was simply asked to leave. After a few days, I received a call, and they informed me that I had cleared the previous round, and my HR is scheduled for the very next day. Again for the fourth time, I traveled 200 km to their office. In my journey midway, they called and asked me to go back to my college as they could not conduct HR on that day. But after a long conversation, they agreed to conduct HR. Even the HR interview went on for 1 hr. And after all this, there wasn't any information from their side for about 1 month. Suddenly one day, they called and said they rejected me after HR. Later, I came to know from the employees of KeyValue that as recession is going on, they are getting very fewer projects. So, they were concerned about taking us on board and simply rejected us after HR.

The selection process started with a coding round. Had 1 hour and had to solve 2 questions. The question was a medium type question (both sliding window questions)... The first question was something like "Maximum length of the substring to be removed so of the permutations of the remaining form a palindrome". I don't remember the 2nd question. The selected peeps had the second round on the same day. It was a 4 hour hackthon round. It was really good and fun. After that, the selected students were invited for tech round and HR round on another day. The tech round was about 90mins long and had system design questions.