Parul ChaddhaHello readers!
I’m excited to share my journey of interviewing at Flipkart, which led to an offer for a 6-month internship (January to July) and a full-time Software Development Engineer (SDE-1) role. I got this opportunity through Flipkart’s Girls Wanna Code 5.0 program, a mentorship initiative designed to support Women in Tech.
Out of over 13000+ applications, only 200 women were chosen for the program. From that group, the top 30 were selected for interviews. I feel incredibly lucky to have been one of them, and in this blog, I’ll walk you through my experience and the lessons I learned along the way.
Points considered to be in TOP 30:
1- Your interaction with your mentor : Once you are selected for the program, you will be assigned a mentor
2- Attendance in the sessions : You will get to attend live sessions
3- Scores of the contests held during the mentorship : You will have to clear multiple mini contests
4- Most Important- Scores of the Final Assessment : Usual DSA questions
There were a total of 3 rounds of interview (2 Tech + 1 Hiring Manager ) for all Top 30. Here is my interview experience:
Round 1 : Technical Interview (PS/DS 1) — Offline Flipkart Office,Bengaluru
My first interview was an in-person technical round held at Flipkart’s Bengaluru office. During this hour-long session, I was presented with two DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms) questions — one easy and one medium-level. However, I completed the interview in just 35 minutes.
The first question focused on string manipulation, while the second was a dynamic programming problem named “Unique Paths II” from LeetCode. I was asked to explain my approach, perform a dry run by drawing the recursion tree, and then write the optimized code on the whiteboard.
Round 2 : Technical Interview (PS/DS 2) — Online
My second interview was online and it was an hour long that I concluded in 50 minutes. During this round, I was given one medium-level and one hard-level question.
The first question was to determine if a linked list is a palindrome, and the second involved finding the distance between two nodes in a binary tree.
I explained and wrote both the brute-force and optimized solutions for each problem. The interviewer was satisfied with my approach and solutions.
Round 3: Hiring Manager — Online
This round was a mix of CS fundamentals + Projects + Past Experience + HR questions.
Here is the list of questions that were asked to me.
1- My past internship experience and questions related to that.
2- About Projects and cross-question related to the implementation and its features.
3- What is the difference between process and threads?
4- What is deadlock?(Interviewer wasn’t expecting the bookish language instead a real-life example)
5- Why do we use OOPs ?
6- Difference between SQL and NoSQL databases?
7- What is Cap theorem for NoSQL databases?
8- Some SQL queries.
9- What is Master-Slave architecture in DBMS and it’s working.
10- My ambitions and how am I fit for the role?
11- Why do I want to join Flipkart?
12- Why do we hire you?
13- My strengths and my weaknesses.
14- How will I handle the pressure of work ?
15- What do you think that you need to change in yourself?
RESULTS!!
Finally #Flipkart_it_is!!!! and my happiness knew no bounds after that…….
Resources :
- Flipkart Interview Questions on GFG
- GFG past interview experiences
- DSA sheet by Fraz -> link
- DSA sheet by Striver(takeUforward) -> link
- DSA sheet by NeetCode -> link
Thank you for reading! In case you need any help, feel free to reach out to me! You can reach out to me for any queries via LinkedIn :) If the blog was helpful, show some love and smash the clap button below!!!
