SDE-1 at PharmEasy

How it went

What they would tell you

How to prepare

Round by round

1. 1

   Coding Round60 min

   This round with a engineer (6+ YOE) Two coding questions Question 1: Linked List (Easy-Medium) Detect a cycle in a linked list and return the node where the cycle begins Question 2: Strings (Medium) Find the length of the longest substring that can be converted to all identical characters with at most K replacements

   • Detect a cycle in a linked list
2. 2

   Technical Round60 min

   Technical round with a senior engineer (10+ YOE)

   • In-depth discussion on past projects
   • Questions on Docker networking, multi-stage builds, and container security HLD Problem: Design a medicine delivery platform, focusing heavily on database modeling
3. 3

   Low-Level Design Round60 min

   Technical round with a principal engineer (12+ YOE)

   • Detailed project discussion
   • Questions on Kafka partitions, consumer groups & message ordering LLD Problem Design a task scheduling system

   DSA (Medium–Hard) Given time intervals with profits, schedule non-overlapping intervals to maximize profit (Greedy + Sorting)

4. 4

   Hiring Manager Round60 min

   Senior hiring manager with 10+ YOE

   • Deep dive into previous projects
   • Questions on Reddis, Kafka HM Questions Describe a situation where your service failed in production. How did you handle it end to end?

What came up