Flipkart | SDE 2 | Off campus | Bangalore

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SDE 2Bangalore4 years
June 28, 20255 reads

Summary

I interviewed for an SDE 2 position at Flipkart off-campus in Bangalore, which involved four rounds: Machine Coding, DSA, LLD, and Hiring Manager discussions.

Full Experience

YOE: 4 Experience: Product Based Company Total rounds: 4 Applied from linkedin referral form shared by recruiter.

Round 1: Machine Coding Round (Duration: 2hrs)

  • Invited on Google meet and explained the problem statement. It was related to Hospital Management System.
  • Need to manage patient and doctors and allow to book/cancel appointment etc.
  • 90 mins time to code it up and submit the code as zip in google form.
  • After 2-3 days a 30 mins discussion was scheduled to run the code and also explain the approach and tradeoffs.

Round 2: DSA (Duration: 1hr)

  • Need to write code in google doc and dry run the code
  • Spiral matrix
  • BFS related problem - LC medium

Round 3: LLD (Duration: 1hr)

  • Need to come up with Functional requirements.
  • Entity, DB schema, Different layers, and api to be written
  • Problem: Designing an online gifting platform similar to Ferns & Petals.

Round 4: HM (Duration: 1hr)

  • In depth question on projects (even asked to draw the project architecture on draw.io)
  • Multiple behavioural and leadership questions
  • Typical questions like why flipkart? why leaving current company etc.

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Interview Questions (6)

Q1
Hospital Management System Machine Coding
Other

The problem was related to Hospital Management System, requiring me to manage patients and doctors, and allow booking/canceling appointments. I had 90 minutes to code it up and submit the code as a zip. After 2-3 days, a 30-minute discussion was scheduled to run the code and explain the approach and tradeoffs.

Q2
Spiral Matrix
Data Structures & Algorithms

I was asked to write code for the Spiral Matrix problem in a Google Doc and dry run the code.

Q3
Design an Online Gifting Platform
System Design

I needed to come up with functional requirements, entity relationships, database schema, different architectural layers, and APIs for designing an online gifting platform similar to Ferns & Petals.

Q4
Project Architecture Discussion
Behavioral

There were in-depth questions on my past projects, and I was asked to draw the project architecture on draw.io.

Q5
Behavioral and Leadership Questions
Behavioral

Multiple behavioral and leadership questions were asked during this round.

Q6
Why Flipkart and Why Leave Current Company
Behavioral

Typical questions such as 'Why Flipkart?' and 'Why are you leaving your current company?' were asked.

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