🚀 Syfe SDE II Backend Interview Experience
💼 Experience: 3 years 3 months
👨💻 Current Role: Software Engineer at a FAANG company in India
🎓 Education: B.Tech, CS, Tier 1, India
💰 Current Compensation: ₹33 LPA
I recently interviewed for an SDE II Backend Engineering role at Syfe, India.
📝 Application
I found about that role on LinkedIn and applied directly through a LinkedIn message to the recruiter.
After a week, I received a call to come to the office for face-to-face interview.
📞 Round 1 — Low Level Design
⏱️ Duration: 60 minutes
This was an elimination round. It was on LLD design. I was asked to design the LLD of:
- A stock brokerage system, with emphasis on allocation and de-allocation of stocks from client to system and system to stock exchange.
- I have to write the classes, show the relationship, write the DB schema, mention the Design Patterns and write 1 method() on the white-board.
✅ Result: Hire
After this round, I was moved to the 2nd stage round
💻 Round 2 — High Level Design
⏱️ Duration: 45 minutes
This was an elimination round. It was on HLD design. I was asked to design the HLD of:
- An app similar to ChatGPT with emphais on how token limit is reached by user, handling multiple user profiles and authentication flow.
- I explained everything and talked about caches, DBs, APIs, protocols. Basically I had to inform about every design decision. Eg; why WebSockets, why not SSE. Why SQL, why not NoSQL. Why a cache here and not there.
✅ Result: Hire
After this round, I was moved to the final interview round
💻 Round 3 — High Level Design
⏱️ Duration: 60 minutes
This was an elimination round and final round with the CTO. It was on HLD design. I was asked to design the HLD of:
- A flash sale for e-commerece. Eg; Flipkart Big Billion Day with special emphasis on handling and sending millions of notifications on that day.
- I explained my design but there were lot of questions on scaling, resilience and other non-functinal requirements, which I think I did not answer satisfactorily.
❌ Result: No Hire
📌 Final Outcome
❌ Rejected
📌 All Interview Outcome
I have been applying to jobs since May 2026 and actively interviewing. Below is the list of companies where I have interviewed till now. Will keep updating this.
