Moveworks (Service Now) | Staff Software Engineer | Bangalore | JUNE 2026
Summary
I interviewed for a Staff Software Engineer position at Moveworks in Bangalore in June 2026 and cleared all four rounds, including coding and system design.
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Staff Software Engineer Interview Experience
Below is the interview experience for the role of Staff Software Engineer.
Round 1 (DSA & Coding)
Similar Leetcode problem : https://leetcode.com/problems/shortest-uncommon-substring-in-an-array/description/
A web UI has a drop-list selector widget that matches any substring. To enable our users to be more productive, we want to highlight the shortest possible substring in each entry of the list, so they can memorize those unique shortcuts.
Write a function that will find the shortest substring that uniquely matches each entry in the list provided. In case of ties use the first substring. Return the same list where each string has its unique substring surrounded by and .
Important: while the matching is case insensitive, we want the return values that preserve the original casing. (The string order should also be preserved.)
Example:
Our widget is used in a UI to label pictures of animals. Annotators must select one of the labels provided for each of the thousands of pictures.
We found the unique substrings, underlined here:
- "Bird" -> "B<u>i</u>rd"
- "Cat" -> "Ca<u>t</u>"
- "Cow" -> "<u>Co</u>w"
- "Dog" -> "Do<u>g</u>"
- "Wallaby" -> "Wa<u>l</u>laby"
So the returned list should be:
["B<u>i</u>rd", "Ca<u>t</u>", "<u>Co</u>w", "Do<u>g</u>", "Wa<u>l</u>laby"]
Round 2 (DSA & Coding)
Problem Similar to wordBreak
Round 3 (HLD Round)
Was asked to design the below problem
Round 4 (HLD Round)
Was asked to design something similar to elastic search on your own.
Problem statement Given 100M restaurant reviews, design a system for searching the reviews by keywords.
Requirements
Build Search API Output list of all reviews with all the terms 100M Reviews Each has a document id, and content Assume 10 words per review on average Assume English language (130k words in dictionary) Read only system
Example
Best and italian and food
Yes: “This is the best italian food in the city.” Yes: “I love italian food, this is the best!” No: “This is the best italian restaurant in the city.”
Could move past this round, Overall experience was good, hope this helps the community.
Interview Questions (2)
Shortest Unique Substring in List
A web UI has a drop‑list selector widget that matches any substring. Write a function that finds the shortest substring that uniquely matches each entry in the provided list (case‑insensitive matching, but preserve original casing in output). If multiple substrings have the same minimal length, choose the first one. Return the list where each string has its unique substring surrounded by <u> and </u>. Example output: ["B<u>i</u>rd", "Ca<u>t</u>", "<u>Co</u>w", "Do<u>g</u>", "Wa<u>l</u>laby"].
Design Search System for 100M Restaurant Reviews
Design a system to search 100 million restaurant reviews by keywords. Requirements: build a Search API that returns a list of all reviews containing all the query terms. Each review has a document ID and content (average 10 words). Assume English language (130k words in dictionary). The system is read‑only. Example query: "Best and italian and food" should return reviews that contain all three terms (e.g., "This is the best italian food in the city.") and exclude those that miss any term (e.g., "This is the best italian restaurant in the city.").