Blinkit

Had a technical interview for Blinkit where I designed an oncall system with a focus on data structures, edge cases, scalability, and code implementation.

Applied for SDE-2 role at Blinkit and faced a challenging interview process. The interview included a discussion about my current project, followed by two technical questions. The first question involved finding the minimum distance in a weighted directed graph with a special edge addition constraint. The second question was about caching and its limitations. Despite solving the first question with a hint, the second question was not answered, leading to a rejection.

I had an SDE-3 interview with Blinkit for a DSA round where I solved the "Kth Largest Element in a Stream" problem. Despite correctly solving and optimizing the problem, I was rejected without explanation, which I found frustrating.

I successfully navigated Blinkit's SDE-1 interview process, which consisted of a DSA round, a System Design round, and a Hiring Manager round focused on Kafka. I received and accepted an offer the same day.