Flipkart limited interview experience Real time questions & tips from candidates to crack your interview
SDE - 1
Flipkart limited
3 rounds | 4 Coding
problems
Selected Interview preparation journey
Preparation
Duration: 3 months
Topics: Back tracking , Graphs , Dynamic programming , Trees , Sorting
Tip 1 : start with the easy one as warm up and then gradually increase the level
Tip 2 : instead of trying to remember how to solve the problem focus on your thought process and why are you doing it , that's more important
Tip 3 : don't just rush into coding , think about how you can approach it first , your approach will get refined during during the time you are coding , just know what are you doing
Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: 8 CGPA
Tip 1 : Keep it precise , one page is resume is good enough
Tip 2 : don't write things , you are not sure about ,it can backfire sometimes
Interview rounds
01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Test
Duration90 Minutes
Interview date12 Oct 2021
Coding problem2
There were 2 questions.
1. Sort An Array of 0s, 1s and 2s
Easy
10m average time
90% success
0/40
Asked in companies
You have been given an array/list 'arr' consisting of 'n' elements.
Each element in the array is either 0, 1 or 2.
Sort this array/list in increasing order.
Do not make a new array/list. Make changes in the given array/list.
Example :
Input: 'arr' = [2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0]
Output: Final 'arr' = [0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2]
Explanation: The array is sorted in increasing order.
Problem approach
You can use 2 pointers approach , swap 0 to the first and 2 to the last keep doing the same
It will be sorted
2. Minimum Characters For Palindrome
Hard
20m average time
70% success
0/120
Asked in companies
Given a string STR of length N. The task is to return the count of minimum characters to be added at front to make the string a palindrome.
For example, for the given string “deed”, the string is already a palindrome, thus, minimum characters needed are 0.
Similarly, for the given string “aabaaca”, the minimum characters needed are 2 i.e. ‘a’ and ‘c’ which makes the string “acaabaaca” palindrome.
02
Round
Easy
Face to Face
Duration90 Minutes
Interview date13 Oct 2021
Coding problem1
1. System Design Question
Design a memory management system
Problem approach
Tip 1 : keep asking questions until are you sure what you are supposed to code
Tip 2 : think about how different entities are going to interact and affect each other
03
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration30 Minutes
Interview date15 Oct 2021
Coding problem1
1. Basic HR questions
why you want to join Flipkart?
Here's your problem of the day 
Solving this problem will increase your chance to get selected in this company
Skill covered: Programming
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