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Rejected

SDE 1 at Meesho

Difficulty
Process took
1-2 Weeks
Rounds
3
Format
Hybrid
Applied via
Other

How it went

  • Practice system design questions

What they would tell you

  • Practice system design questions

How to prepare

Round 3 was about more than code, expect to architect , after this round i got rejected

Their background

I appeared for Meesho’s SDE 1, campus placement B.Tech CS student

Round by round

  1. 1

    OA60 min

    3 question coding round Array + & Doubly Linked List Graph Tree-based

  2. 2

    Technical Interview 1 (Design)60 min

    Design a tree-based inventory system for a large e-commerce platform with category/subcategory hierarchy. Requirements:

    • IngestOrder(date, quantity, category): Record an order for a category on a date.

    • Query(category, startDate, endDate): Get the count of orders for a category within a date range. Constraints:

    • Deep category trees (up to 20 levels).

  3. 3

    Machine Coding60 min

    Design a real-time chat system for a seller–customer platform, similar to Meesho’s in-app messaging. Requirements:

    • One-on-one and group chats for sellers and customers
    • Message delivery guarantees (at-most-once, at-least-once)
    • Message persistence and history (even if a user logs out and back in)

What came up

MediumHybrid0 1 years

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