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
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the packet flow when a user searches for a product on Flipkart.com, from the browser to the backend microservice.
#DNS
#TCP/IP
#TLS
#Load Balancing
#Reverse Proxy
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Differentiate between Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB). When would you use NLB for Flipkart's infrastructure?
#Load Balancing
#OSI Model
#AWS/GCP
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How does DNS resolution work? How would you configure DNS for a multi-region failover setup?
#DNS
#High Availability
#Failover
#Routing
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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hard
What is BGP? How is it used in hybrid cloud setups connecting on-premise data centers to AWS/GCP?
#BGP
#Hybrid Cloud
#Direct Connect
#Routing
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Describe the TCP 3-way handshake and 4-way teardown. How would you troubleshoot a high number of TIME_WAIT connections on a load balancer?
#TCP/IP
#Networking
#Troubleshooting
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How do you troubleshoot DNS resolution issues inside a Kubernetes pod?
#Kubernetes
#DNS
#Troubleshooting
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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hard
Describe the architecture of an Ingress Controller. How would you configure Nginx Ingress to handle sticky sessions and rate limiting?
#Kubernetes
#Ingress
#Nginx
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