Incred | Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience | Selected
Summary
I cleared three interview rounds (DSA, HLD, HR) and was selected, but later rejected the offer in favor of a better one.
Full Experience
Current 25 LPA base 4.3 YOE
Round 1 - DSA Round 3 problems were asked first - Dutch National flag second - xor based find duplicate element in array with [1,n] elements third - swap all 0s to end in array I completed all problems in 45 minutes and the interviewer was impressed.
Round 2 - HLD Round Deep dive into current projects, a lot of cross questions for kafka, paritioning, edge cases handling. HLD problem - design a review / comment section for e-commerce website like amazon
Round 3 - HR Discussion Basic HR discussion like motivation behind joining the company, salary discussion
Verdict: Selected
I rejected the offer as I had a better offer.
CTC - 33 LPA fixed 3 LPA variable
Other interview experiences: Tekion | PhonePe | NinjaVan | PayPay | Sumo Logic
Interview Questions (4)
Dutch National Flag
Given an array consisting only of 0s, 1s, and 2s, sort the array in a single pass without using extra space.
Find Duplicate Using XOR
Given an array of size n containing numbers from 1 to n with exactly one duplicate, find the duplicate element using XOR operations.
Move Zeroes to End
Given an array, move all zeroes to the end while preserving the relative order of the non‑zero elements.
Design Review/Comment Section
Design a system for handling product reviews and comments for an e‑commerce platform similar to Amazon, covering APIs, data storage, scaling, and moderation.