This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Parul Chaddha
Hello 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!!!
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Parul Chaddha
Parul Chaddha | Sciencx (2024-09-01T22:24:05+00:00) Mentorship to Full-time Offer | Flipkart SDE-1 Interview Experience. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2024/09/01/mentorship-to-full-time-offer-flipkart-sde-1-interview-experience/
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