FamPay | SDE-2 | 2026 | Rejected

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· SDE-2
January 30, 2026 · 103 reads

Summary

I interviewed for an SDE-2 role at FamPay, which involved four rounds: machine coding, past project discussions, low-level design, and cultural fit. I was ultimately rejected.

Full Experience

Round-1 | Machine Coding

I was asked to design key-value store with following functionalities:
1. get
2. set
once i solved the above functionalities in 20-30 mins i was asked to extend the solution for below functionalities -
3. set with TTL
4. should run a automatic job in background to delete values with expiry TTL

"I wrote code in python, and for 4th functionality i could use google for syntax."

Round-2 | Past Project Discussions

I was about the projects i have done in my current organisations, and a lot of cross questions.

Round-3 | LLD

As this was a LLD round so my understanding was to write code for a given question,
but interviewer told he is not expecting code what he expects details of system such that a new intern/developer should able to implement it.

I was asked to design a event booking platform.
Now as the requirement was not clear so i approached the questions as HLD and the conversation led to DB schema and spend a lot of time on that.

i had to ask alot of questions to gather the requirements, even after asking a lot of questions i was unclear

Round-4 | Cultural fit

As usual, a lot of situational based questions and behavioural questions.

got a rejection mail after 2 days, round 2,3,4 were scheduled on same day

Interview Questions (3)

1.

Design Key-Value Store with TTL

System Design·Medium

I was asked to design key-value store with following functionalities:
1. get
2. set
once i solved the above functionalities in 20-30 mins i was asked to extend the solution for below functionalities -
3. set with TTL
4. should run a automatic job in background to delete values with expiry TTL

2.

Design Event Booking Platform (LLD)

System Design·Hard

I was asked to design a event booking platform.
Now as the requirement was not clear so i approached the questions as HLD and the conversation led to DB schema and spend a lot of time on that.
I had to ask a lot of questions to gather the requirements, even after asking a lot of questions I was unclear.

3.

Behavioral and Situational Questions

Behavioral

A lot of situational based questions and behavioural questions.

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