Swiggy
Leading Indian food delivery aggregator with complex real-time logistics.
4 Rounds
~15 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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System Design
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hard
Design Swiggy's real-time delivery tracking system where customers can see the live location of their delivery executive.
#WebSockets
#Kafka
#Redis
#Geospatial Data
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a surge pricing engine for Swiggy that dynamically adjusts delivery fees based on weather, traffic, and real-time demand-supply gaps in specific geohashes.
#Stream Processing
#Distributed Systems
#Event-Driven Architecture
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design Swiggy Instamart's inventory management system to handle high concurrency during flash sales or peak hours without overselling.
#Concurrency
#Distributed Locks
#Database Isolation
#Caching
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a distributed rate limiter for Swiggy's public APIs to prevent abuse and manage tiered API access.
#Rate Limiting
#Redis
#Algorithms
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a restaurant search and recommendation system that supports typo-tolerance, prefix matching, and personalized ranking.
#Elasticsearch
#Information Retrieval
#Microservices
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design Swiggy's cart and checkout service. How do you handle concurrent modifications from multiple devices and out-of-stock scenarios during checkout?
#State Management
#Data Consistency
#Saga Pattern
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a highly available notification system to send SMS, Email, and Push notifications for order lifecycle events.
#Asynchronous Processing
#Message Queues
#Retry Mechanisms
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a payment processing gateway integration system that handles third-party gateway timeouts and failures gracefully.
#Payments
#Idempotency
#Reconciliation
#State Machines
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a location-based service to find the nearest delivery executives for order assignment.
#Geospatial Indexing
#QuadTrees
#Geohash
#Redis Geospatial
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a system to handle Swiggy One memberships, ensuring benefits (like free delivery) are applied correctly at checkout with minimal latency.
#Caching
#Microservices
#Rule Engines
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