PhonePe | Interview Experiences | SDE | Set-17

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PhonePe SDE Interview Experience | 3+ YOE

Recently interviewed for the Software Engineer role at PhonePe and got selected, so sharing my experience.

 

The process started with a machine coding assignment to design and implement a ship battle game, followed by a discussion around the implementation and design choices.

 

The DSA round had multiple questions on Top View of a Binary Tree, a bipartite graph coloring problem where A-B, B-C, C-D relationships were given and connected people couldn’t sit together, and a matrix transformation problem which can be solved using next greater element concept.

 

For system design, it was an HLD round where I was given options like Distributed Scheduler, Rate Limiter/Circuit Breaker and Booking System. I chose Rate Limiter, and we went deep into scalability, concurrency, Redis, token bucket, atomic operations and trade-offs.

 

The HM round was mostly around my projects high-level design, why/how I made certain decisions, trade-offs, retry mechanisms, challenging on-call issues, mentoring juniors, PR reviews, documentation and how I use AI to improve productivity.

There were also questions around how quickly I could onboard at PhonePe.

 

Overall, the interviews were quite deep and focused a lot on the what, how and why behind the work mentioned in my resume.

 

Verdict: Selected

 

Updating comp:

 

Basic 27 lacs

Esops 35 lacs(25% each year)

Signing 4 lacs