Meesho SDE3 | May 2025 | Rejected

Current Employer: Product based MNC

YOE: 5.5+

Application Process: Reached out by a recruiter from BuzzHire

Interview Process:

Round 1: Machine Coding on HackerRank Question: Create a Inventory management System for Products, where inventory can be reserved for centain time let's say 5 mint and if the order is not confirmed within 5 mints then system should be able to release the reserved inventory. Basically we need to implement an interface with following methods:-

    void blockInventory(String productId, Integer count, String orderId);

    void confirmOrder(String orderId);

    int getInventory(String productId);

Expectation: Working code (Moduler, Extensible) Concurrency support(Multithreading handling)

Solution:- Used PriorityBlockingQueue of keep track to reserved inventory. A separate thred will keep on checking the expiry time of peek of the queue and delete once time expired. Overall, round went well, was able to answer follow-up questions by interviewer. Code was also running. For optimization, I suggested, we can use DeleyQueue as well. Suggestion:- Focus should be on working code. Try to solve core problem first before using a lot of design-patterns Time : 90 mins

Round 2: High Level Design Question:- Design a cloud based file sync system(similar to DropBox) Deatil problem statement:- User can login from multiple devices. when user create a new file on local device, it should be synced to cloud and should be synced back to all other devices.

Solution:- Discussed Functional/Non-functional requirements, Core entities, APIs. Started with a basic design with file upload/download capability. Later enhanced for the design to support large file, also if a new device is getting added in the user account, all files will be synced. For Syncing back file to device, I was using push based approach. Interviewer asked multiple questions, I was able to answer some of them, he seemed satiesfied. Time : 60 mins

Verdict:- Almost after 1 month I got the rejection email, after one of my friend working there asked HR for the feedback. I think HLD round was the reason, I could have done better. One suggestion I would like to give that do Capacity Estimation and Storage/DB choice discussion in the initial phase only. Also since Messho Interviewer remains mostly silent during the interview, so communicate as much as you can.