Company: Acko General Insurance
Role: SDE-1
Location: Bangalore
Experience: 1.2 YOE (small scale startup)
Cold mail
Total rounds: 2

Round 1 – Machine Coding

Total time: 1h

• Problem: Design Splitwise (Core Functionalities)
  • 5 min requirement gathering
  • 50 min coding
  • 5 min discussion
• Requirements:
  • Add users
  • Create groups
  • Add members to groups
  • Add expenses
  • Support getting total owed / owe:
  • Within a specific group
  • Across all groups combined
  • Explicit instruction: due to time contraint can keep equal split only

Implemented all the functionalities required, also added the unequal split as well(though was told, can keep to equal split for now), but after tesing interviewer asked on how can we add unequal split and when I showed it already implemented, he was really impressed.
50 minutes felt slightly tight, but overall it went really well.

Got call for next interview with the Tech Lead.

Round 2 – HLD

Total time: 1h

• Design a Document Processing System
  • Sync vs Async processing
  • Trade-offs between both approaches
  • Message queues
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Retry mechanism

Overall more inclined towards basics of HLD rather than this particular system.
Got positive feedback from HR the next day.

Other experiences:
Zomato: https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/7617100/zomatodistrict-sde-1-interview-experienc-770j/
Urban Company: https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/7617185/urban-company-sde-1-interview-experience-6q0a/