YEXT SDE - 1 Interview Experience | 2025
July 22, 2025 · 142 reads
Summary
I had an interview for an SDE-1 role at YEXT in 2025, which involved four rounds: technical debugging, DSA coding, a system design-like coding challenge involving APIs, and a final managerial interview.
Full Experience
📍 Interview Process Overview
🔹 Round 1 – Technical Debugging & Coding (DSA-Focused)
- Debugging Session (30 minutes): Solve 3 out of 4 minor bugs related to flag checks, variable assignments, and basic logic errors.
- Coding Session (30 minutes): Solve a Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA) problem focused on Graph Traversal (BFS/DFS).
🔹 Round 2 – Technical Interview (Debugging Round)
- Analyze and debug an implementation of the "Game of Life" problem. The codebase spans across five files and requires a comprehensive understanding of control flow and logic correction.
🔹 Round 3 – Technical Interview (Coding Round)
- Utilize provided API endpoints to fetch and process data in order to generate a leaderboard of the top 10 players based on predefined criteria.
- Has 2 parts to it. First one is necessary to solve. Second part has three sub problems and are categorised under Bonus questions.
🔹 Round 4 – Fitment / Managerial Interview
- General behavioral and managerial questions assessing team collaboration, problem-solving approach, and cultural fit. (Preparation tip: Common questions can be found online (Glassdoor).)
Interview Questions (2)
1.
Debug Game of Life Implementation
Data Structures & Algorithms
Analyze and debug an implementation of the "Game of Life" problem. The codebase spans across five files and requires a comprehensive understanding of control flow and logic correction.
2.
Generate Leaderboard using API Endpoints
System Design
Utilize provided API endpoints to fetch and process data in order to generate a leaderboard of the top 10 players based on predefined criteria. Has 2 parts to it. First one is necessary to solve. Second part has three sub problems and are categorised under Bonus questions.