Meesho 6M Intern + SDE - 1 || On Campus || Interview Experience
Summary
Applied for a 6-month internship and SDE 1 role at Meesho during on-campus hiring. Made it to the final round but was ultimately rejected, likely due to performance in the hiring manager round.
Full Experience
During my on-campus process, I went through several rounds of interviews until the final round. Meesho was one of the companies that came for a 6-month internship from January to June along with a full-time offer from July for the role of SDE 1 and Data Science. I made it to the last round for SDE.
College: Tier 1
Rounds (All eliminatory): 4
Internship Stipend: 1.3 Lakh per month
Full-time Offer: 22 Lakh base + 35 Lakh joining bonuses spread across 4 years
Interview Experience:
Round 1 → Online Assessment: Three questions were given & everyone had different questions. One was a simple array-based LeetCode Easy, one was based on graphs along the lines of finding the best route a salesman can take to minimize operations, and one was based on backtracking using dynamic programming and can be called as a LeetCode Hard.
Round 2 → Technical Round 1 (DSA): I was asked an easy-to-medium scheduling question that could have been solved using arrays or using heaps and hash maps for an optimal solution. We had to write and explain our pseudocode to the panelist in 30 minutes, with 5 minutes for cross-questions on its time and space complexity and approach.
Round 3 → Technical Round 2 (LLD): I was asked a LLD question similar to standard LeetCode design questions (Example: Simple Bank System ) where the function names and parameters are given and you have to fill in their working. The question was on ride sharing, with functions like add rides, find ride, book ride, cancel ride, etc. We had 1 hour to code it and run one test case. If you ran the test case successfully, you would have passed. After this, for 30 minutes, I was asked about the basics of OOPs, SOLID principles, and OS concepts like mutex and race conditions.
Round 4 → Hiring Manager Round: I had a panelist with around 10+ years of experience. Here, I was grilled on my resume projects and on every little keyword. He wanted to know why I used a particular approach and asked me to come up with a better approach, along with why I used a specific tech stack and whether it was feasible in a real-life scenario. Along with this, I was asked standard HR questions.
Result: Rejected
Even though I feel that I did pretty well in all my rounds, since they only took one candidate for my role in SDE, I think I was rejected due to my HM round performance. Overall, it was a good learning experience for my next interviews with other big companies.
Interview Questions (2)
A scheduling question that could have been solved using arrays or using heaps and hash maps for an optimal solution. The task was to design an efficient approach to manage scheduling with constraints.