slice | SDE-1 Backend Intern + FTE | On-Campus

Process

OA → Round 1 (75 min machine coding) → Round 2 (45 min hiring manager).

Online Assessment

Two coding questions, medium CP level.

Round 1: AI-assisted Machine Coding (75 min)

Important: this is no longer DSA. The official guide came 2 days before and said: build a working project on your own machine, any language, in-memory or SQLite/MongoDB fine, chat-based AI allowed with screen shared (no agentic tools).

Problem types seen across campuses in this drive:

• Parking lot system (entities, entry/exit, slot allocation by vehicle type)
• Personal finance tracker (users, transactions, income vs expense summary REST API)
• Student attendance system with teacher/student roles and auth
• Movie booking (shows, seats, booking with seat-level concurrency)
• Spending limits service (pure in-memory, per-txn cap, rolling 24h cap, rolling 1h txn count, authorize + getUsage)

Round 2: Hiring Manager (45 min)

Mostly conversational.

• Intro, then deep dive into whatever on your resume catches their interest.
• Resume project: architecture, why this stack, how does X work, what happens under concurrent use, what would you change
• Why backend, why this company, how do you use AI

No DSA, LLD diagrams.

What helped

• Asking people who interviewed recently.

Offer

6-month internship (Jan–Jun 2027), ~1L/month stipend.
FTE included: ~36L first year