Background: Tier-2.5 private college | Internship at Flipkart
Role: SDE-1 (Fresher)
Process: Off-Campus
Status: Selected
Timeline: Applied on 23rd Aug, OA on 25th Aug, Interviews from Nov–Dec

Round 1 — Online Assessment (OA)

Received 2 DSA problems, both medium–hard.

• Q1: Graph/PQ style circular transition problem
• Q2: Greedy problem involving positives, zeros, negatives (required careful sorting + prefix logic)

Both required clean implementation and handling edge cases.

🧠 Behavioural Section (OA Part 2)

After the coding questions, there was the usual Amazon Work Style Assessment, which mainly checks:

• Ownership

• Bias for Action

• Deliver Results

• Teamwork & collaboration

• Decision-making under pressure

It was straightforward — no right/wrong answers, just choose options closest to your working style.

Round 2 — Technical DSA Round

Interviewer asked 2 medium-level DSA questions:

• Intervals Greedy – similar to merging intervals / handling overlaps
• DP Subsequence – classic DP on subsequences with non-trivial transitions and boundary conditions.

I solved both within time, discussed approach, time complexity, and optimization.
Got a call after a week that I cleared this round.

Round 3 — DSA + Leadership Principles

Started with LP-based behavioral questions:

• “Tell me about a time you went above and beyond.”

• “Describe a situation where you showed ownership.”

• “A difficult problem you solved in your repo/internship.”

Then 1 DSA question:

BFS: Generate the largest number ≤ n where adjacent digits differ by 1

• Examples: 121, 210, 343

Solve the ques within time.

Got mail for the final round after ~10 days.

Round 4 — Hiring Manager (HM) Round

Pure LP discussion. No coding.
Topics included:

• Shortcut vs long-term choice

• Handling responsibilities in internships

• When I solved something impactful

• Customer obsession, ownership, high standards, etc.

🎉Final Verdict

Received a call from the recruiter after one week —
Selected for SDE-1 @ Amazon.