Flipkart
Indian e-commerce giant tackling massive supply chain and scale problems.
4 Rounds
~18 Days
Hard
The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.
Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Design a data structure that supports adding a product to a cart, removing a product, and getting the most recently added product in O(1) time. (LRU Cache variant)
#Linked List
#Hash Map
#Design
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a grid representing a warehouse where 0 is empty, 1 is fresh produce, and 2 is rotten produce. Every minute, rotten produce infects adjacent fresh produce. Find the minimum time to rot all produce.
#Breadth-First Search
#Graphs
#Matrix
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given arrival and departure times of delivery trucks at a Flipkart fulfillment center, find the minimum number of loading bays required so that no truck is kept waiting.
#Sorting
#Greedy
#Arrays
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Given a string representing a search query without spaces and a dictionary of valid products, add spaces to construct all possible valid product combinations. (Word Break II)
#Backtracking
#Dynamic Programming
#Trie
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Find the top K most frequently purchased items in a stream of order logs.
#Heap
#Hash Map
#Bucket Sort
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Merge K sorted lists of product IDs returned from different regional databases into a single sorted list.
#Linked List
#Divide and Conquer
#Heap
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Find the longest increasing subsequence of prices for a stock over a given period.
#Dynamic Programming
#Binary Search
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Find the shortest path for a delivery drone in a 2D grid with obstacles. The drone can eliminate at most 'k' obstacles.
#Breadth-First Search
#Matrix
#State Space Search
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Given two sorted arrays of user ratings for a product, find the median rating in O(log(m+n)) time.
#Binary Search
#Divide and Conquer
#Arrays
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Trapping Rain Water: Given an array representing the heights of stacked inventory boxes, compute how much water can be trapped between them after a roof leak.
#Two Pointers
#Dynamic Programming
#Stack
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