Mentorship to Full-time Offer | Flipkart SDE-1 Interview Experience

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 :

1. Flipkart Interview Questions on GFG


2. GFG past interview experiences


3. DSA sheet by Fraz -> link
   


4. DSA sheet by Striver(takeUforward) -> link
   


5. 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!!!