Hackathon

Registration

The Flipkart grid 5.0 registration began in June 2023 till mid-July 2023. There were two quiz rounds held on Unstop each with 25 questions on DS, core CS subjects and languages like Python, Java, C++. Since our team participated in Information Security and Software Development tracks, some question on web3 and network security were also asked. Each question had an individual timer of 60s on it....

Hackathon

We aced the quiz rounds easily, then project submission round was there. In that, we need to select a topic out of 3 given topics and made a prototype to submit within 2 weeks along with our idea. We didn’t proceed after this but everyone who reached till here got an OA link from Flipkart after filling a form. My 2 team members already had on-campus offers from GS and Cisco, so I was the only one to appear for the OA....

Online Assessment

There were 3 questions for 1 hour 30 mins. Two were implementation based requiring sorting and maps to do proper ordering. They were medium with 1-2 edge cases. The third question was a variation of cherry pickup problem. I was able to solve all 3 fortunately....

Interview

But finally, my first round occurred in January mid. It was a pure DS and algo round of 1hr. Interviewer was really friendly and made me comfortable first. He was a SDE 2 with 3 years of experience. He asked me a spin-off of the snake and ladder problem....