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What products does Freshworks build and which engineering domains do they prioritise?
Tip: Freshworks: Freshdesk (customer support), Freshsales (CRM), Freshservice (IT service management), Freshchat (live chat). Engineering focus: full-stack web, search and filtering at scale, real-time messaging, integrations ecosystem (1000+ third-party connectors). Show product awareness in your motivation answer.
How would you design a customer support ticketing system like Freshdesk?
Tip: Core entities: Ticket, Agent, Customer, Team, SLA. Key features: email-to-ticket ingestion (webhooks from mailbox), assignment rules engine (round-robin, skill-based), SLA timer service (cron-based), real-time agent collaboration (WebSockets), full-text search (Elasticsearch on ticket body + metadata).
What is full-text search and how does Elasticsearch power it?
Tip: Full-text search: find documents containing query terms with relevance ranking. Elasticsearch: inverted index maps terms to document IDs. Tokenisation, stemming, stopword removal applied at index time. Querying: BM25 scoring by default. Fuzzy search handles typos. Freshdesk uses Elasticsearch for ticket search across billions of records.
Write code to implement a rate limiter using the token bucket algorithm.
Tip: State: tokens (float), last_refill (timestamp). On request: compute elapsed time, add tokens = elapsed × rate, cap at max_tokens, check if tokens >= 1: if yes consume 1 and allow; else reject. Thread-safe: use mutex or atomic operations. Freshworks API has per-account rate limits on their platform.
What is Ruby on Rails and how does Freshworks use it?
Tip: Rails: convention-over-configuration web framework in Ruby. Freshdesk was originally built in Rails. Know: MVC pattern in Rails, ActiveRecord ORM, RESTful routing conventions, asset pipeline. Freshworks is migrating parts to React frontends + Go/Java services, but Rails is still the core — knowing it is a differentiator.
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