YEXT SDE - 1 Interview Experience | 2025

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SDE - 1
July 22, 202513 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)

Q1
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.

Q2
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.

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