Olyv|Smartcoin interview Experience| Worst Experience | SDE 2| Bangalore|3 YOE
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Oct 17, 2025

Complete waste of time. They call in office for interview when they could have just rejected you in 15 minutes intro round. If you are scheduled an interview with them and have not worked in stability for 3 years or have high current slary, you will be told that you are not selected after 3 rounds of interview and coming to their office.

Round 1 DSA(Virtual)- : Asked a question if there is array of building height, x amount of bricks and y amount of ladders. If you start at 0, which building you can reach with condition, if next bulding is lower or same height you can go with no cost but if the next building is higher you can either use a ladder or amount of bricks equal to height difference.
Solution: Gave two approaches dp and binary search and later optimized to Greedy solution
Verdict: Excellent feedback

Round 2(In office):Asked book my show lld with questions like how will you save seats to show a map design on app. Also asked about my college projects
SOlution: Interviewer was helpful and suggested hacks I can use. I designed all schema, told joins and use rectangle objects as seats and other data of hall
Verdict: Good, next round

Before round 3 finance guy came and told budget issues with this role before proceeding to last round.

Round 3(In office):Why short stint in previous company, salary expectations, and HLD for email where there are different kinfd of emailing services with rate limit. How do you implement a service which sends OTP related emails immediately and promotions related OTp over time
Solution: Used queue for promotions male, redis for rate limiter and handled failures etc:
Verdict: Interviewer was satisfied by design but not by my switches/salary

Overall: Not selected

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