SWIGGY | ASDE | Associate Software Development Engineer(ASDE) | 2022 Passout

I applied for an Associate Software Development Engineer (ASDE) role at Swiggy through a referral in late November. It took approximately three weeks to receive an email asking me to fill out a form with basic details like my resume, college, and CPI. Around two weeks later, on December 19th, I got another email stating my resume was selected, and I subsequently received a link for a Hackerrank test.

The Hackerrank test included:

• One database SQL query question, focusing on joins.
• One medium-to-hard coding question, which I recall being based on arrays and binary search.
• A few basic MCQs.

I managed to solve all these within 30-40 minutes.

A week after the online test, I received an email for Round 1, which was an assignment based on low-level design. The task was to design a playing arena where two players could fight according to a specified logic. I was restricted to using Java, NodeJS, or Go for the project. I completed the assignment using Java + Maven within a day and was quite pleased with the code I produced.

However, after submitting the assignment, I waited almost two weeks without further communication. I was really hoping for this opportunity. I subsequently received a call from HR. To my surprise, the role wasn't full-time as expected but a 3-month internship with a potential conversion to a full-time position. This was nowhere mentioned in the original job description, which I found to be a waste of candidates' time. HR confirmed my last round went well and asked if I wanted to proceed, mentioning an offer of 8 CTC for the internship (I assumed this meant 8 LPA, so 2 LPA for 3 months).