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Flipkart General Manager Interview Questions, Process, and Tips
Top Flipkart General Manager Interview Questions and Answers
- Q1. Why do we keep a few brands separately after acquiring them?
- Q2. Should we launch video streaming services? What do you think?
- Q3. Do you think e-commerce will destroy Kirana shops?
Flipkart General Manager Interview Experiences
4 interviews found
Anonymous
I applied via Campus Placement
Tell me something about yourself.
Share your previous work experience.
How did you expand your company's business?
Flipkart is going to launch wallpapers for the Indian market what kind of wallpaper you are going to launch, formulate the complete strategy.
This was a typical market entry case, the only thing you ought to think is the type of wallpaper you will launch and here your out of the box thinking comes into the picture, I mentioned I will be launching a PVC based economical segment wallpaper.
What is the professional achievement you’re most proud of?
This was a typical market entry case, the only thing you ought to think about is the type of wallpaper you will launch, and here your out-of-the-box thinking comes into the picture, I mentioned I would be launching a PVC-based economical segment wallpaper
Tell me something about yourself.
How in Flipkart are we going to sell real estate?
Over here they are looking at what ideas you can bring to the table. I mentioned the problem that why people are reluctant to deal in real estate online, then I presented the ideas whatever I was able to think off.
What are parameters you will leverage on to promote IIM Lucknow as a brand?
Again a typical marketing question on promotion, where I described the elements like Alumni base, the government rankings, the world-class infrastructure, the available courses like ABM, MDP
Interview Preparation Tips
✓ Do focus on HR questions
✓ GD topic should be company domain-specific
✓ Be calm and be aware of all the features of the company
✓ Just be yourself and GD is the most important part of the entire process
✓ The interviewer is not looking for the right answer as far as the marketing domain is concerned, they are trying to access your thought process regarding how you approach a problem. The approach should be logical and feasible.
I applied via Campus Placement
Topic- Customer Centricity.
(4 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me something about yourself.
- Q2. What do you know about this company/organization?
- Q3. What are your interests?
- Q4. What can you bring to the table?
(7 Questions)
- Q1. What do you know about Flipkart deals in past?
- Ans.
Flipkart has offered various deals in the past to attract customers and increase sales.
Flipkart's Big Billion Days sale offers huge discounts on various products.
Flipkart also offers daily deals and discounts on specific products.
Flipkart has tie-ups with various banks to offer additional discounts and cashback offers.
Flipkart also offers exchange offers on certain products.
Flipkart has introduced various payment optio...
- Q2. What is Flipkart Plus membership?
- Q3. What are your opinions on OTT services?
- Ans.
OTT services are a game-changer in the entertainment industry.
OTT services have disrupted traditional cable TV and movie rental industries
They offer on-demand content and personalized viewing experiences
Examples include Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+
OTT services have also led to the rise of cord-cutting and cord-nevers
OTT services have faced challenges with content licensing and piracy
- Q4. Should we launch video streaming services? What do you think?
- Ans.
Yes, video streaming services are a must-have in today's market.
Video streaming services are in high demand and have become a necessity for many consumers.
It can attract a younger audience who prefer to watch content online.
It can also increase revenue through subscription fees and advertising.
Examples of successful video streaming services include Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video.
- Q5. Do you have any idea what kind of content we want to provide?
- Ans.
Yes, I have a clear understanding of the type of content your company wants to provide.
Your company aims to provide informative and engaging content that is relevant to your target audience.
The content should be well-researched, accurate, and up-to-date.
Examples of content could include blog posts, articles, videos, and social media posts.
The content should align with your company's values and goals.
It should also be o...
- Q6. How will you enhance one category?
- Ans.
I will enhance the category by introducing new and innovative products.
Conduct market research to identify gaps in the category
Collaborate with R&D team to develop new products
Create a marketing strategy to promote the new products
Offer promotions and discounts to attract customers
Monitor sales and customer feedback to make necessary improvements
- Q7. Why do we keep a few brands separately after acquiring them?
- Ans.
Keeping acquired brands separate helps maintain their unique identity and customer loyalty.
Preserving the acquired brand's reputation and customer base
Avoiding confusion among customers
Leveraging the acquired brand's strengths and market position
Maintaining a diverse portfolio of brands
Examples: Nestle's acquisition of Starbucks' retail business, Unilever's acquisition of Dollar Shave Club
I applied via Campus Placement
How to expand Flipkart in rural areas?
(4 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me something about yourself.
- Q2. Why do you want to work at Flipkart?
- Q3. Do you think e-commerce will destroy Kirana shops?
- Ans.
No, e-commerce will not destroy Kirana shops.
Kirana shops offer personalized service and convenience to customers.
They also have a loyal customer base who prefer to shop locally.
E-commerce may pose a challenge, but it can also be an opportunity for Kirana shops to expand their reach.
For example, Kirana shops can use e-commerce platforms to sell their products online and reach a wider audience.
Additionally, Kirana shops...
- Q4. If you had to introduce one category in Flipkart what would it be?
I applied via Campus Placement
What do you think E-commerce should focus on next 5 years?
We can improve the visual experience similar to what Lenskart is doing, try & buy options for metro cities.
(2 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me something about yourself.
- Q2. Why did you choose Flipkart?
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I applied via Campus Placement
(5 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me something about yourself.
- Q2. What is your work experience also, Can you describe your significant contributions to the organization and the challenges faced during the experience?
- Q3. What did you do and learn from a challenging situation?
- Q4. Why did you choose Amazon?
- Q5. Do you have any questions for me?
(6 Questions)
- Q1. Stress Interview.
- Q2. Why are you interested in this course?
- Q3. Tell me something about Amazon’s principles.
- Ans.
Amazon's principles are customer obsession, ownership, long-term thinking, and more.
Customer obsession: putting the customer first in everything they do
Ownership: taking responsibility and being accountable for results
Long-term thinking: making decisions that benefit the company in the long run
Invent and simplify: constantly innovating and finding ways to simplify processes
Are right, a lot: making data-driven decisions...
- Q4. How is your experience with Amazon?
- Q5. How will you make Amazon more customer centric and how will you reduce the inventory cost?
- Ans.
To make Amazon more customer centric, I will focus on personalization and improving customer experience. To reduce inventory cost, I will optimize supply chain and implement efficient inventory management strategies.
Implement personalized recommendations and targeted marketing
Improve customer service and support
Streamline checkout process and reduce shipping times
Optimize supply chain and reduce lead times
Implement jus...
- Q6. Are you a thinker or a doer?
Interview Preparation Tips
✓ Interactions with seniors, Mock GDs/PIs, Internet
✓ General issues asked in competitions by amazon
SIVAPRASATH S
Selected
I applied via Walk-in and was interviewed in Jul 2024. There were 5 interview rounds.
(2 Questions)
- Q1. Strength and weakness
- Q2. What do you do in next 5 years
- Ans.
In the next 5 years, I plan to enhance my leadership skills, drive business growth, and foster a positive work culture.
Focus on developing strong leadership qualities through training and mentorship programs
Implement strategies to drive business growth and increase profitability
Create a positive work environment by promoting teamwork and employee engagement
Stay updated on industry trends and technologies to remain comp...
Coding questions on DSA
Grammatical as well as Mathematical
Coding questions on DSA
(2 Questions)
- Q1. Questions on projects
- Q2. SQL, CN, OS, coding questions on DSA
Interview Preparation Tips
Adithya H K Upadhya
Interview Preparation Tips
Experience: An aptitude test which was followed by three rounds of technical interviews and finally the HR interview.
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Snapdeal offered placements for 5 students (3 from CS and 2 from IT).
General Tips: Be extremely well prepared for any company. Research about the company's profile extensively before the company's interview. HR panel always looks for candidates who are well aware of the company in order to measure the candidate's interest. Data structures are absolutely necessary for any company. Improve coding skills through frequent participation in competitive programming arena such as codeForces, codeChef, HackerEarth etc. "Software development job profile was offered to me.
Unnecessary and irrelevant questions are to be avoided. We should raise questions only if we have some genuine questions. However any question related to job profile or location preference could be raised. "
"It was very grueling and tiring at first but the sweet taste of placement makes it all worth it.
Placements are a turning point in everybody's career."
Skill Tips: Snapdeal is more focussed on Data structures and object oriented technology.
For data structures, online materials such as GeeksforGeeks are excellent and in case of OOPS concepts, stronghold in either C++ or java programming language is necessary.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal
Interview Questionnaire
1 Question
- Q1. Questions based on tree
Interview Preparation Tips
Experience: Keep your Calm
Tips: Practice matters
Duration: 90 minutes
Total Questions: 30
Round: Interview
Tips: They are not going to eat you.. they will help you out only...
So just go inside the interview room as some of your friends called you to ask some question..relax
Skills: Thinking Process
College Name: IIT GUWHATI
Piyush Raman
Interview Questionnaire
7 Questions
- Q1. Discussion on internship at IBM' Cloud Unit
- Q2. Find LCM of all numbers from 1 to n. Give an algorithm, then correctly estimate the time complexity
- Ans.
Algorithm to find LCM of all numbers from 1 to n and its time complexity
Find prime factors of all numbers from 1 to n
For each prime factor, find the highest power it appears in any number from 1 to n
Multiply all prime factors raised to their highest power to get LCM
Time complexity: O(n*log(log(n)))
- Q3. SQL vs NoSQL. Why NoSQL
- Ans.
NoSQL databases are flexible, scalable, and can handle large amounts of unstructured data.
NoSQL databases are schema-less, allowing for easy and flexible data modeling.
They can handle large amounts of unstructured data, making them suitable for big data applications.
NoSQL databases are highly scalable and can easily handle high traffic and large user bases.
They provide horizontal scalability by distributing data across...
- Q4. Some DBMS designing question relating to Snapdeal website
- Q5. JAVA-Spring and Hibernate
- Q6. Variation of -----/ Given a dictionary of words and a number n. Find count of all words in dictionary that can be formed by given number n
- Ans.
The question asks to find the count of words in a dictionary that can be formed by a given number.
Iterate through each word in the dictionary
Check if the characters in the word can be formed using the given number
Increment the count if the word can be formed
- Q7. Given an array of elements. We can perform following operation only- Increase an array element. Cost of operation is the amount of increment made per array element. Now for a given H, we need to make any H...
Interview Preparation Tips
Experience: I did both coding question ( 1 full and 2nd partial ) and 5 MCQ only and was shortlisted
Tips: Refer to interview sets on Geeksforgeeks.
Do solve both the coding questions first. Not necessary to pass all test cases for both.
Then go for C based o/p questions. At last aptitude.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 23
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I did not know JAVA and DBMS so could not answer any of the last 2 questions. I told him directly thati had no experience in JAVA / DBMS and justified. I had proficiency in Data Structure and Algorithms and I beleive the interviewer liked my internship work on Cloud / Virtualization
Tips: Focus on Data Strucure-Algorithms, JAVA, DBMS, Puzzles
Round: Test
Experience: All repeated questions from previous interviews.
Tips: Refer interview set from geeksforgeeks.org
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 3
Round: Technical Interview
Experience: For the first question, I started by exponential solution and reduced it to polynomial. We
discussed various approaches and tried a variety of methods and after
1-1.5 hrs of discussion finally ended up with an O(1) solution with some
pre-processing overhead. After achiveing O(1) time complexity, he asked
to further optimize the space complexity.
Usage of Trie / TST. Internal Implementation of Hashing structure and replacing the hashing mechanism using Trie / TST.
Tips: Focus on Tree, Stacks, Queue, Linked List, Hash Maps, Trie, Hashing, String Algorithms, Ternary Search Tree
Round: HR Interview
Experience: Typical HR
General Tips: Practice programming
Skill Tips: Focus on Data Structure-Algorithms and programming in either C++ / JAVA
Skills: Data Structure, Algorithms, Programing, JAVA, DBMS
College Name: Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur
Motivation: -
Funny Moments: -
Skills evaluated in this interview
Interview Questionnaire
16 Questions
- Q1. Lowest Common Ancestor of two nodes in binary tree.I wrote code for this.Then interviewer drew a tree and asked to print stacktrace on it
- Ans.
Finding lowest common ancestor of two nodes in binary tree
Traverse the tree from root to both nodes and store the paths in separate arrays
Compare the paths to find the last common node
Return the last common node as the lowest common ancestor
Use recursion to traverse the tree efficiently
- Q2. You are given two ropes.Each rope takes exactly 1 hour to burn. How will you measure period of 45 minutes
- Q3. Singleton Design pattern
- Q4. Two linked list are merging at a point.Find merging point
- Ans.
To find the merging point of two linked lists
Traverse both linked lists and find their lengths
Move the pointer of the longer list by the difference in lengths
Traverse both lists simultaneously until they meet at the merging point
- Q5. Reverse linked list without recursion
- Ans.
Reverse a linked list iteratively
Create three pointers: prev, curr, and next
Initialize prev to null and curr to head
Loop through the list and set next to curr's next node
Set curr's next node to prev
Move prev and curr one step forward
Return prev as the new head
- Q6. Number of rectangles in MxN matrix
- Ans.
The number of rectangles in an MxN matrix can be calculated using a formula.
The formula is (M * (M + 1) * N * (N + 1)) / 4
The matrix can be divided into smaller sub-matrices to count the rectangles
The number of rectangles can also be calculated by counting all possible pairs of rows and columns
- Q7. All anagrams of a string.He called it anagram but i think he wanted to ask all possible substrings of a string
- Q8. Which Design patterns you have used.I said Decorator,Factory,Singleton.Then he asked about Decorator design pattern
- Q9. Tell me about yourself.Then by looking at my resume he said you don’t have hands on experience in Java as i was working in php.I said though i don’t have hands on experience but i am good in programming an...
- Q10. There is four digit number in aabb form and it is a perfect square.Find out the number
- Ans.
The number is 7744.
The number must end in 00 or 44.
The square root of the number must be a whole number.
The only possible number is 7744.
- Q11. You have a deck of 10 cards.You take one card out and put it on table and put next card in the end of deck.You repeat this sequence till all cards are on the table.Sequence formed on the table is 1,2,3,4,...
- Q12. Same tell me about yourself
- Ans.
I am a software developer with experience in multiple programming languages and a passion for problem-solving.
Proficient in Java, Python, and C++
Experience with web development using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Familiarity with agile development methodologies
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Passionate about learning new technologies and staying up-to-date with industry trends
- Q13. There is a file which contains ip addresses and corresponding url. Example 192.168.1.15 www.abc.com 10.255.255.40 ----- You have to return the subnet mask of the ip and the url after “www.” Output 192.1...
- Ans.
Java function to return subnet mask of IP and URL after www.
Read the file and store IP addresses and URLs in separate arrays
Use regex to extract subnet mask from IP address
Use substring to extract URL after www.
Return subnet mask and URL as separate strings
- Q14. 3 mislabeled jar puzzle.Since i had heard this puzzle many times,i answered it in 2-3 minutes.He said i can make out that you have heard this puzzle already ;)
- Q15. What are inner join and outer join in sql
- Ans.
Inner join returns only the matching rows between two tables, while outer join returns all rows from one table and matching rows from the other.
Inner join combines rows from two tables based on a matching column.
Outer join returns all rows from one table and matching rows from the other.
Left outer join returns all rows from the left table and matching rows from the right table.
Right outer join returns all rows from the...
- Q16. A linked list contains loop.Find the length of non looped linked list
- Ans.
To find the length of non-looped linked list, we need to traverse the list and count the number of nodes.
Traverse the linked list using a pointer and count the number of nodes until the end of the list is reached.
If a loop is encountered, break out of the loop and continue counting until the end of the list.
Return the count as the length of the non-looped linked list.
Interview Preparation Tips
Experience: 3.You have a deck of 10 cards.You take one card out and put it on table and put next card in the end of deck.You repeat this sequence till all cards are on the table.Sequence formed on the table is 1,2,3,4,5…10. What was the original sequence of card.After doing some exercise i answered 1,6,2,10,3,7,4,9,5,8.Then he asked me to write a function for this which takes a number and return the array.
Skills: Algorithm, Java, OOP, data structure
College Name: NA
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