Real, anonymized candidate journeys from recent (2025) Flipkart SDE-1 and SDE-2 loops in India — round by round, including what was asked, how the candidate approached it, and the outcome.
One complete journey, start to finish
Round 1 — Machine Coding
Build an investing-app prototype with stock-management features — instrument listing, buy/sell order handling, and portfolio/holdings tracking.
Round 2 — DSA (1 hour)
Two medium-difficulty problems, one recursion-flavored and one DP-flavored.
Round 3 — System Design
Design a Spotify-like music streaming service.
Round 4 — Hiring Manager
General hiring-manager discussion.
Key takeaway: The whole process took about 9 days end-to-end, with an offer arriving roughly 23 days after the first interview — a notably fast turnaround at the SDE-2 level.
More real interview journeys
The first round of each journey below is shown in full; the rest of each candidate's journey — every remaining round, verbatim — is part of the Placement-Ready PYQ Kit.
Round 1 — Machine Coding (90 min)
Build a conference-room booking system with clean class design and optional bonus features.
🔒 3 more rounds — continue this journey in the full kit
Round 1a — Machine Coding (90 min)
A distributed task scheduler with dynamic load management.
🔒 4 more rounds — continue this journey in the full kit
Round 1 — Machine Coding (2.5 hours)
Build a stock-trading-platform prototype ('FlipStocks') applying OOP and SOLID principles.
🔒 3 more rounds — continue this journey in the full kit
Round 1 — PS/DS (45 min, in-person)
A binary-search-on-answer style problem.
🔒 2 more rounds — continue this journey in the full kit