RejectedIntern (6 Months) + Full-Time at Flipkart
- Difficulty
- Process took
- 0-1 Weeks
- Rounds
- 2
- Format
- On site
- Applied via
- Other
How it went
- Time pressure made, more challenging during OA i felt this, so try to solve DSA question in time constraints.
What they would tell you
- Time pressure made, more challenging during OA i felt this, so try to solve DSA question in time constraints.
How to prepare
- I feel that practicing DSA is the most important.
Their background
Currently pursuing my B.Tech CS from Tier-1 college, I have 4 months of experience as a intern role at startup. When Flipkart visited our campus, I was excited not only about the competitive salary and growth potential as FTE
Round by round
- 1
Elimination Round (OA)90 min
Three problems in 90 minutes. No fancy interfaces, just a quiet room, a good IDE & a lot of focus. Problem 1: String-based comparison with some tricky certain conditions Problem 2: DFS with 8 directions (a variation of DFS traversal) Problem 3: A sliding window problem involving a data stream, given a window size, I had to maintain statistics (like min, max, average)
- 2
Technical Interview60 min
Given two arrays, find the smallest subarray in the first that contains all elements of the second, but with order not required and duplicates possible.I started with brute-force explanation, but quickly switched to a sliding window hashmap approach. Other one course schedule 2
What came up
A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.