Company: Urban Company
Role: SDE-1
Location: Bangalore
Experience: 1.2 YOE (small scale startup)
Reached out to recruiter over linkedin
Total rounds: 2
Round 1 – DSA
Total time: 1h
- DSA 1: Agressive Cows
- Started with brute force.
- Optimised using Binary on range. - DSA 2: Sliding Window
- Was LC med, standard solution using 2 pointer sliding window and hashmap.
- I was not able to come up with the standard approach instead solved using 2 pointers and range query.
- Came up with some edge cases by myself and how to handle them.
- Became really really complex but solved in the same time complexity.
Interviewer was really impressed with the approach and me finding and handling the edge cases without hints.
Round 2 – LLD (Class & DB Design)
Total time: 1h15m
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Initial Discussion (~10m) – Previous Work
- Interviewer had worked on something similar.
- Talked about scaling challenges and tradeoffs with other competitive algorithms.
- Felt more like a peer discussion than Q&A. -
LLD: Membership System
- Class design
- DB schema design
- Entity relationships
- Indexing considerations
- Membership tiers
- Subscription lifecycle
- Renewals / upgrades
- Handling expiry scenarios
Got a positive feedback from HR and was told, I'll be moving forward to managerial round but 2 days later got news that position was put to freeze.
Overall experience was really great.
Other experiences:
Zomato: https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/7617100/zomatodistrict-sde-1-interview-experienc-770j/
Acko Insurance: https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/7617272/acko-sde-1-interview-experience-by-anony-m90u/


