Meesho SDE3 Interview | India | Got Offer
- Location
- India
- Experience
- 6 years
- Posted
- 15 Jan 2026
Summary
I successfully navigated the Meesho SDE3 interview process, which spanned over two months, and ultimately received an an offer. The process involved a machine coding round to build a stock broker application, a high-level design discussion for Cricbuzz, and a final hiring manager round focused on my projects and experience.
How it went
Role: SDE3
YOE: 6 years, currently in FAANG
Time: Aug - Sept 2025
Entire process took 2+ months. It took 1.5 months from initial call to scheduling the first round.
Round 1: Machine Coding (2 hours)
Create a stock broker Application
Requirements:
- Add/Register users to the stock exchange system.
- Add stock to the stock exchange system.
- Each user should have a stock holding list(stock, price, qty) & balance.
- Users should be able to add balance to their account.
- Users should be able to buy/sell multiple stocks.
- Users should be able to check past successful trading
Features:
- Traders place Buy and Sell orders for a stock indicating the price and quantity.
- Each order gets entered into the exchange’s order-book and remains there until it is matched. Order matching is attempted whenever a new order is added.
- The exchange follows a FirstInFirstOut Price-Time order-matching rule, which states that: “The first order in the order-book at a price level is the first order matched. All orders at the same price level are filled according to time priority”.
- The exchange works like a market where lower selling prices and higher buying prices get priority.
- A trade is executed when a buy price is greater than or equal to a sell price.
- The trade is recorded at the price of the sell order regardless of the price of the buy order.
Round 2: HLD (1.5 hours)
Cricbuzz system design
Round 3: Hiring Manager
Questions about projects, work experience, project ownership, mentoring juniors etc. Some HLD questions related to queues/ message brokers etc.
Final Verdict: Hire, got an offer
Questions asked (2)
- 01
Stock Broker Application Design
Data Structures & Algorithms
Create a stock broker Application
Requirements:
- Add/Register users to the stock exchange system.
- Add stock to the stock exchange system.
- Each user should have a stock holding list(stock, price, qty) & balance.
- Users should be able to add balance to their account.
- Users should be able to buy/sell multiple stocks.
- Users should be able to check past successful trading
Features:
- Traders place Buy and Sell orders for a stock indicating the price and quantity.
- Each order gets entered into the exchange’s order-book and remains there until it is matched. Order matching is attempted whenever a new order is added.
- The exchange follows a FirstInFirstOut Price-Time order-matching rule, which states that: “The first order in the order-book at a price level is the first order matched. All orders at the same price level are filled according to time priority”.
- The exchange works like a market where lower selling prices and higher buying prices get priority.
- A trade is executed when a buy price is greater than or equal to a sell price.
- The trade is recorded at the price of the sell order regardless of the price of the buy order.
- 02
Cricbuzz System Design
System Design
Design the Cricbuzz system.