UiPath - SWE2 Interview Experience May 2026
Summary
I interviewed for a SWE2 role at UiPath in Hyderabad; the DSA round included the Excel Sheet Column Title problem, and I was rejected with feedback to improve my coding skills.
Full Experience
YoE: 3 years 10 months Current Job: SWE2 at a PBC (FinTech sector) MNC Tech Stack: Java / Spring Boot Backend Location: Hyderabad, Hybrid
Applied on UiPath careers portal on 15th April 2026.
HR contacted on 28th April 2026 shortlisting my profile for interviews.
Location: Hyderabad, Hybrid
R-1 DSA
Date: 4th May 2026 2pm to 3pm
First 20 mins went in discussion on following:
- Explain your current project architecture and what tech stack
- How microservices communicate with each other
- Why do you use RabbitMQ, Kafka vs. RabbitMQ
- How RabbitMQ works internally
- Is RabbitMQ pull-based or push-based broker
- What is DLQ
Next 40 mins https://leetcode.com/problems/excel-sheet-column-title/description/ Expected working code
Result: Rejected HR called back and said "you were close in probelm solving. Need to be better at coding and you can re-apply after 3 months of cool-off period."
Interview Questions (1)
Excel Sheet Column Title
Problem Statement
Given a column title as it appears in an Excel sheet, return its corresponding column number.
- The column title consists only of uppercase English letters.
A-> 1,B-> 2, ...,Z-> 26,AA-> 27,AB-> 28, ...
Example
Input: "AB"
Output: 28
Constraints
- 1 <= column title length <= 7
- The answer will fit in a 32‑bit integer.