Flipkart
Indian e-commerce giant tackling massive supply chain and scale problems.
4 Rounds
~18 Days
Hard
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Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Full Stack Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the difference between pessimistic and optimistic locking. In a high-concurrency e-commerce environment, which one would you choose for updating a user's wallet balance, and why?
#SQL
#Concurrency
#Transactions
Full Stack Engineer
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Technical
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hard
You have a relational database table storing 500 million order records. A query fetching the order history for a specific user sorted by date is taking over 5 seconds. Walk me through every step you would take to optimize this query.
#SQL
#Performance Tuning
#Indexing
Full Stack Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Compare Redis and Memcached. If you were tasked with designing the session management system for Flipkart's web application, which one would you choose and why?
#Redis
#Caching
#Architecture
Software Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain how B+ Trees work in the context of database indexing. Why do relational databases prefer B+ Trees over standard Binary Search Trees?
#Database Internals
#Data Structures
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