Super.money - UI Engineer 2

Background - Currently working as frontend engineer in India's leading quick-commerce company having 2 & 1/2 years of experience.

Round 1 - [ Machine coding ] 2 hours Scheduled by InterviewVector Initial Discussion (20 mins): Talked about my current projects, day-to-day work, and the challenges I’ve faced in recent projects. Machine Coding Task (1 hour 40 mins): I was asked to build a Stock Wishlist App with the following features:

1. A list of stocks where prices change at specific intervals
2. Ability to add/remove stocks from the wishlist
3. Set notification alerts when stock prices hit a user-defined threshold
4. Search functionality for stocks

Result: ✅ Positive

Round 2 - [ UI tech depth ] 1 hour Vanilla JS Task: Build an n x m grid. When a user clicks a cell, highlight the entire row and column in red. React Task: Build a counter app where clicking "+" increments the value and also retains the previous values (used React hooks). Conceptual Questions: Covered topics like Virtual DOM, useLayoutEffect, lifecycle of useEffect, critical rendering path, web vitals (LCP, CLS, FID), and website/network optimizations.

Result: ✅ Positive

Though both rounds went well, I unexpectedly received a rejection email due to the role being closed.🤷‍♂️ Two weeks later, I was re-contacted, and they acknowledged the mistake and resumed the process.

Round 3 - [ System Design ] 1 hour Project Discussion: Spoke about projects, had a depth discussion about 30 minutes on this.

System Design Task – Google Forms:

1. Discussed functional & non-functional requirements
2. Discussion on architecture, MVC design, and high-level design of form.
3. Small disucssion on backend services.
4. Schema design: faced a bit of difficulty in modeling ownership vs user responses, but handled other aspects confidently

Result: ✅ Positive

Round 4 [ HM round ] 1 hour

1. Disucssion on my projects
2. Typical HM round questions
3. Time when i lead my team
4. What are my expectations on work from super.money
5. He also discuss about the work and culture of super.money It went pretty well.

Final result - [ Rejected ] After a week of no response, I followed up with HR. She mentioned that after a debrief, they’ve decided not to move forward. No specific feedback was provided. Honestly, I felt confident after every round and expected a positive outcome. But sometimes, things don't work out even when everything seems right. Hope this helps. Thanks