Software Engineer 2 at PhonePe

How it went

Round by round

1. 1

   Low Level Design60 min

   They asked me to designing a customer complaint management system, customers raise complaints which are assigned to agents based on their expertise

2. 2

   Coding Round60 min

   There were two questions Q1: Find the minimum number of swaps to make a string palindrome I never seen this one before, so I tried a greedy approach, then i share my thought process, wrote the code Q2: Given a binary tree, find the sum of all nodes at the deepest level

   • Minimum number of Swaps
3. 3

   High Level Design60 min

   Design an online multiplayer quiz platform I highlight core logic like matching players of similar skill, handling leaderboard updates, and scoring algorithms

4. 4

   Hiring Manager Round60 min

   Interviewer was senior engineering manager, he asked about my projects He asked about leadership- Have I mentored anyone? How do I handle disagreement on a team? What do I do when priorities change? Culture and fit- Why PhonePe? What kind of team did I want to join? Behavioral questions- “Tell me about a time you failed.” “How do you handle feedback?” I tried to be honest, not just give rehearsed answers.

What came up