I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Flipkart
Interview
First, I cleared their hackerrank test. Then, I was called in their office for the interviews. There, they had a machine coding round. That young guy explained us everything and then we were all made to sit in separate rooms. After 90 minutes sharp, he came and asked me that the time is up.
"was there even a time limit? didn't you say to take your time?"
"time limit is written in the assignment paper"
I showed him and it was not written.
"oh! but anyways I said that it was going to be of 90 minutes. just send me whatever you have"
That's okay. I did that.
Now, in the interview, he was talking quite narrow-mindedly. I cleared all of his doubts. He had his questions - not to test my knowledge but
He looked more interested in what I have coded rather than my knowledge. For example, I didn't write getter setter in every class (to save time). Moreover, there was a feature that I was not able to complete to make sure the completion of the other features.
It was written in the assignment to perform some features perfectly rather than doing all of them imperfectly. I did just that. He then asked to implement the other feature right away - along with getter/setters. I asked him if we can skip that part and have everything public for now - he denied.
And now, while I was writing getter/setters for all the classes along with comments, he said he was done with the interview.
It's very hard to show your knowledge to these young developers who hardly understand the concept of an interview.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Hackerrank test:
- Given entry and exit time in string format (e.g. entry: "9:42", exit: "11:07"). Find the parking price. Given were constant price, price for first hour and subsequent hours.
- You are given a DTD for XML in the following format.
<!ENTITY a1 10> -> a1 is a leaf tag occupying 1 one line. Integer followed by a1 means it's a leaf.
<!ENTITY a2 a1;a1> -> a2 is a tag containing two a1 tags, thus occupying two lines.
So, when expanded, the whole thing occupies 3 lines. Write a program that will take this definition in a vector<string> and calculates the number of lines in the expanded version (say count). Print "0 <count>" if the number of lines exceeded a given input L, otherwise print "1 <count>".
Note: Consider the ordering as well. What if a2 contains a1 but a1 hasn't arrived yet?
Machine coding (90 min)
Design Splitwise. Group contains Users. User can be in multiple Groups. Bill is assigned to a Group. Multiple Users are assigned to a bill. User shares can be divided equally, based on fixed values or by percentage. User can see owe amount group-wise and overall.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Flipkart
Interview
Hacka rank test with 2 questions .. 1 easy and other medium. I think solving the medium one was required.
Followed by DSA
Followed by System Design
Followed by Hiring Manager
Followed by HR Round
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Flipkart (Bengaluru) in Apr 2021
Interview
The first round was machine coding round where I was asked to design a system like jira. and the code should be running and executalble. I was not able to clear this round as I was not able to run the test cases. Make sure to get your code running to show the test caeses
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Flipkart (Bengaluru) in Jan 2020
Interview
Rounds
1.Machine Code (90 minutes task given to write compile code with proper designing)
2. DataStructure & Algorithms (3 question asked)
3. System Design (class diagram expect with high modular and low coupling)
4. Hiring Manager
I cleared all the rounds but after that they will compare you with other candidates in debrief and knock you out, doesn't care about given proper interview feedback.
Received a mail after 2 weeks - rejected. Reason not mention.