I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Flipkart
Interview
The worst candidate experience, ever.
Their in-person interview scheduling was chaotic, with multiple reschedulings.
After a phone screen, was supposed to talk to 5 or 6 folks onsite. The couple of guys I talked to seemed to have a chip on their shoulder and were out to prove how much they know about a certain domain than poor old me could possibly know. Well, I didnt realize that they were giving their interview and not the other way around. Industry validated technical solutions that I have worked with in my prior experience - these were dismissed casually. Its as if they are working on something so special that others cannot even fathom the scale or complexity of it ... well, having worked at tech giants that handle much bigger problems of scale, throughput and latency, trust me that your problems are not unique. And try and understand a different approach to solving a problem rather than having an echo chamber.
After 2 rounds, the recruiter appeared and said that I "have to leave". Apparently there was a technical level "mismatch". I had just brought a cup of coffee after the second interview. I smiled and pointed at my full cup - I was told to keep that cup down at that very instant and accompany him out right away. That recruiter ensured that I submitted my visitor badge downstairs and escorted me out of their main gate, till the road - from deep in the office upstairs to the road in less than a minute. Never had such a humiliating experience in my life before this.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Flipkart (Bengaluru) in Mar 2018
Interview
First off all, The interview process starts of with a machine coding round where you are asked to come at 09:00 am and then just to reject you at machine coding round they take 9 more hours (i.e)at 06:00 pm. The machine coding round is for OOPs oriented enginners.
They do not check for logic and and only check whether the OOPs concepts are implemented or not in the code.
This way of checking leads me to think, is Flipkart doing any interesting development or only trying to maintain / migrate the code.
IF they are really into development, then they would atlas look at the approach of the candidate. They just look oops concepts are implemented.
For any one attending Flipkart interview, Just make sure that you have Abstract class and interface in your code.
The next round is evaluation of the code. I highly suggest you go on a weekday. At least the interviewers are bit skilled enough. Interviewers who come on weekend seemed dumb to me. This was the opinion of many people who came to drive on that.
Let me tell you guys, if you are done with machine round, consider you are 90% through the interview.
The questions they ask during machine coding round are average quality. But they are lengthy. You need more than 90 mins to do this perfectly the way they wanted it.
Glad I made it to Amazon.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Flipkart (Bengaluru) in Mar 2018
Interview
Interview was for SDE2 position but due to unsatisfactory system design round I got scaled down to SDE1.
Get prepared to sit for the whole day there if u r going for interview process and if u r lucky enough because every round is a knockout round.
6 rounds of interview.
Round1: hackerearth(2 que, 90 minutes)
Round2: OOP design question. Make a chess board application full working code. 90 min
Round3: discussion on that OOP design in chess board. With few alterations on fly. They want to check how generic your code is.
Round 4: DS, Algo
Time required to rot all oranges, sum of left leaves of a tree, 2d matrix with restricted movements in right and bottom with hurdles in between.
Round 5: design full in and out for snakes and ladders all classes and interfaces and scale that for million users
Round6: hiring manager skype round mostly focused on projects done by me and most difficult part and few behavioural questions. U can also expects few algorithms. Took around 30 to 35 minutes