Swiggy

Swiggy

Leading Indian food delivery aggregator with complex real-time logistics.

4 Rounds ~15 Days Hard
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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 • Technical • hard

You notice that an AWS RDS PostgreSQL read replica is experiencing high replication lag, causing stale data on the Swiggy app. How do you troubleshoot this?

#AWS RDS #PostgreSQL #Replication #Troubleshooting
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Cloud Engineer • Technical • hard

Explain how you would handle a split-brain scenario in a distributed caching system like Redis, which Swiggy uses heavily for session management and menu caching.

#Redis #Distributed Systems #High Availability
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Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

If we use DynamoDB to store user order history, how would you design the Partition Key and Sort Key to efficiently query a user's last 10 orders?

#DynamoDB #Data Modeling #NoSQL
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DevOps Engineer • System Design • hard

Design an automated disaster recovery and failover mechanism for Swiggy's primary relational database (Amazon Aurora) across multiple AWS regions.

#Disaster Recovery #AWS Aurora #High Availability #RPO/RTO
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DevOps Engineer • Technical • hard

Swiggy's restaurant menu API relies heavily on Redis. If the Redis cluster experiences a sudden memory eviction issue, how do you troubleshoot and resolve it?

#Redis #Caching #Troubleshooting #Memory Management
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

How would you handle a race condition in a relational database when two concurrent transactions attempt to deduct the same inventory count?

#SQL #Transactions #Concurrency Control
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Software Engineer • Technical • medium

What is the difference between clustered and non-clustered indexes in MySQL? How does the InnoDB engine store them?

#SQL #Indexing #MySQL
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