Status: SSE at unknown company
YOE: 5
Position: SSE at Zepto
Location: Bengaluru, India
Date: April 2022

The interview process and format of each interview, for example:

Round 1 (Coding, outsourced to InterviewVector):

• Word search LC problem
• System design discussion

Round 2 (LLD):

• Dream 11 LLD problem
• DB and API design and some system design discussion

Round 3 (HLD):

• Twitter HLD problem
• Tweet Posting + Feed generation

Round 3 (HM):

• HLD discussion on finding nearest restaurants in Food ordering apps
• Some project related discussion

Round 5 (Head of people):

• Behaviral questions
• Company and Culture related discussion

Notes:

• Intially recruiter told me I am selected after 2nd round, then salary discussion happened
• Then they said there will be one more HLD discussion
• Then one more HM discussion
• Then one more discussion with HR head
• My expected salary was high so they had to do more rounds to be extra sure