Total Number of Rounds: 3 2 Technical Round & 1 Managerial Round. Process: Initially HR called after seeing my profile in One of the Job portal. Verified the details like experience, tech stack, c.ctc, e.ctc. Same day HR called again to confirm my profile is shortlisted but they can't meet my ECTC, and Max they can offer is 25% hike which I agreed to and my interview was scheduled. Round 1: it was a DSA round. Two programs were asked, one on binary search tree bottom view and another other was implementing queue data structure. Along with it few questions on docker, kubernates and spring. I was able to implement both the programme and answered 6 out of 9 theoretical questions. Verdict: Cleared Round 2: This was a design round and was scheduled for one hour. Interviewer asked to implement a virtual file system with commands like mkdir, cd, cp, grep, touch, rm, rename, ls etc. I was able to come up with a solution in an hour and write implementation of 2-3 commands. But interviewer was looking for a fully working solution and the interview extended for 1.5 hours more. I wrote a working solution with almost all the commands. Verdict: Cleared Next day I got call from HR mentioning I have been selected and managerial round for 10-15 mins will be scheduled to discuss salary expectations and for my doubt clearing (if any) regarding the project and team. Along with that she again note down my ECTC which I mentioned same as initially agreed value (25% hike). Evening I got call from HR again saying they can't match my expected CTC and Max they can offer is same as my current CTC plus 10% bonus. After a long discussion agreed to re-check the budget with hiring manager. After multiple follow up was simply sent an email saying due to budget cap my expected CTC can't be meet and my profile is been dropped. Although the interview experience was nice but it was completely waste of time. Would request HR not to engage with candidates if can't give standard hike on current CTC.