College :- One of top tier engineering colleges in India
Current Company :- One of unicorns
Yoe :- 5+ Years

Recently I had interviewed with swiggy for SDE 2 contract role through Madhees (a swiggy vendor)

Interview process consisted of 3 rounds. The rounds were as follow

Round 1 - PSDS - 1 Hour
This round was mainly focused on PS. Interviewer asked me 4 problems and I have to write the pseudo code for it. The questions were

1. Two sum problem - started with basic approach and had to come up with optimized solution and there was some tweak to problem.
2. Tweaked kadane's algorithm for finding max sum of subarray of even indexes or odd indexes
3. Design data structure to support Insert/delete/getRandom in o(1)
4. Top view of a tree

Overall experience with this round was really good. Was able to come up with solution to all of the above problems.

Verdict :- Proceeded to next round.

Round 2 - LLD - 1 Hour
This round mainly focused on LLD of Driver payout. Where driver can check his/her earnings and also we need to provide the facility to apply offers to driver payout. Interviewer mainly focused on code extendability, resuability and production ready.

After discussing it interviewer started asking questions related to current work and projects and why I have made a tech choice.

Overall experience for this round was really good. Interviewer was quite friendly and was focused on design choices and all.

Verdict :- Proceeded to next round.

Round 3 - HM - 1 Hour
This round started with the project discussions and different tech choices that I had made. Then followed by basics of design principles and database isolation levels and when to use which one.

Then followd by a coding question

• Given an array of strings group anagrams together.

Overall experience for this round was really good and I was able to comeup with answers to all the questions. Also interviewer was quite friendly and supportive.

Overall interview experience was good and it was kind of professional and questions were related to day to day challenges being faced in swiggy.

Verdict :- proceeded to final offer discussion

But here comes the scary part. After the rigourous interview process, vendor told me that they can give at max 30 LPA total CTC. Which was far below to my initial expectation which I had clearly stated before beginning the interview process and to that recruiter had told me that they will match the whatever your expectation is... I didn't say anything and nodded to at least give me 30 as fixed. She told me that she will come up with approval within 1-2 days.
And being ghosted for more than 10-15 days. After rigourous follow back Recruiter finally picked up the call and told me that she can't even give me 30 as fixed part and 30 is not even 20% increment on my current fixed compensation.

Overall It was complete waste of time. I would request swiggy to refrain from such vendors as they will not leave a chance to put your reputation to ground.

And if you guys can't even provide least expected amount that had been cleared before the interview process then don't waste candidate's time.