Status: Accepted

Offer:
Position: SDE-1 Backend
Location: Bangalore

So I got call from recruiter after applying 2-3 months back for scheduling the interview rounds.

Round1: (Interviewer: SDE-1 at Groww)
The three questions were asked (as I solved first 2 questions fast), duration was of 60 minutes.

Questions were copy paste from leetcode

1. Remove Duplicated from Linked List - II
2. No of ways to decode string (DP problem)
3. Sliding window problem, longest substring having k max distinct character

Interviewer was satisfied.

Round 2: (Interviewer: SDE-2 at GROWW)
This round was of 90 minutes. Interviewer shared a Low Level Design problem on google docs and asked to discuss the approach and then code it, and the solution should be executable.

Question: Implement a Group chat functionality, where an admin can create a max of 5 groups and a user can join max 20 groups. Also admin can add/remove the users from the groups.

Successfully completed the code 10 minutes before and discussed the design and approach at the end too. Interviewer asked to run the code and check for the test cases.

Interviewer was very happy with the approach.

Round 3: (Interviewer: SDE-3 at Groww)
This round was of 60 minutes
Question asked: to design a Flickr Image Service rate limitter on google docs, for the user with different types of subscriptions. For example a premium user can download 100 images per minute whereas general user can only download 10 images per minutes, also when general user send request to download 11th image in 1st minute then that request should not be rejected instead that should be processed after the end of 1 minute.

Interviewer was very helpful, so with the help of discussion was able to achieve the design.

Interviewer was satisfied.

Round 4: (Interviewer: Hiring manager)
Interviewer shared a codepad link shared a story of the stock market and at the end the question boil down to variation of Two Heap problem.

Discussed 2-3 approach then he asked to code in last 15 minute.

Interviewer was very satisfied.

Round 5: (Interviewer: HR)
This round also went for 60 minutes and was asked behavioural questions and why leaving the current organization before 6 months only.

Compensation details: https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/1638277/sde-1-backend-groww-off-campus/1190267

NOTE: Round1 and Round2 were on same day, after gap of a day Round3, Round4, and Round 5 was scheduled.
Each round was elimination round.

Hope this helps.

Let me know if I can help.