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Updated 5 Aug 2024

Urban Company Senior Software Engineer Interview Experiences

1 interview found

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
Not Selected
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Questions were crayon box ,the bot and the game and happy neighbourhood for 90 mins

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Array basics was asked
  • Q2. Segment tree,prefix sum
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Low level design was asked

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I was interviewed in May 2022.

Round 1 - Assignment 

Round duration - 120 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Round 2 - Video Call 

(1 Question)

Round duration - 120 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

- Discussion on the first round's assignment
- Was asked about adding unit tests in the assignment
- Fundamental questions on the approach used for the assignment.

  • Q1. What are some things that could have been done better in the system design problem given in the first round?
  • Ans. 

    Some improvements in the system design problem could include better scalability planning, more efficient data storage solutions, and improved error handling.

    • Implementing a more robust caching mechanism to improve performance under heavy load.

    • Optimizing the database schema for better query performance and scalability.

    • Introducing load balancing and horizontal scaling to handle increased traffic.

    • Enhancing error handling t...

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - Video Call 

(1 Question)

Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Round was with tech lead. Was briefly asked about the problem I solved in the first round. Then I was asked to solve 1 medium level DSA based question. Some discussion on culture fit was also done.

  • Q1. Given the frequency of traffic lights' states, can you determine if there will ever be an invalid state for the traffic signal, and what are the conditions that lead to an invalid state?
  • Ans. 

    Yes, an invalid state can occur if the traffic lights are in conflicting states simultaneously.

    • An invalid state occurs when multiple traffic lights are showing conflicting signals, such as both red and green at the same time.

    • This can happen due to a malfunction in the traffic light system or human error in programming the lights.

    • For example, if a traffic light is stuck showing both red and green signals, it would be co

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI applied for the job as SDE - 1 in GurgaonEligibility criteriaNo criteriaBlinkit interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data structures, Algorithms, Web development, OOP, LLDTime required to prepare for the interview - 3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have clear web dev fundamentals
Tip 2 : Have at least 1 good non-trivial project
Tip 3 : Practice basic DSA questions.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : For past experience (internship/full time), explain the impact you created instead of only mentioning what you did.
Tip 2 : Don't exceed 1 page.
Tip 3 : Get it cross-checked for mistakes through multiple sources.
Tip 4 : Only put in stuff that you are confident in being able to explain.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain Deadlock?
  • Q2. Explain Red Black Tree?
  • Q3. Find local minima in a 1-D array?
  • Q4. Find local minima in 2-D array?
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Sep 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. React JS, coding round, DSA, poly phill, map , shallow copy deep copy, popular JS DSA questions
Round 3 - Assignment 

Basic React JS clock/ stopwatch

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - know how to create componenets, and Easy to early medium level DSA leetcode JS based.
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Apr 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

2 coding question one on maximum sum problem and other on tree traversal

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Dbms oops dsa questions are there and one coding question which you have to pseudo code it and dry run it
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Majorily on SQL and Databases

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Align two images in a page with same width and same height
  • Ans. 

    Use CSS to align two images with same width and height on a page

    • Set both images to have the same width and height using CSS

    • Use flexbox or grid layout to align the images horizontally or vertically

    • Adjust margins or padding to fine-tune the alignment

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Array related question
Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Situation based question
  • Q2. Majorily focused on project

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Oct 2024. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Easy level to Medium level

Round 2 - Coding Test 

2 Easy questions of DSA

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. One DSA question
  • Q2. Normal discussion about tech stack
Round 4 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell about yourself
  • Q2. Why do you want to join digit?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Go easy.. Nothing is hard in digit hiring
Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Apr 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Code postorder traversal without using recursion.
  • Ans. 

    Iterative solution using a stack to perform postorder traversal.

    • Use a stack to simulate the recursive call stack.

    • Push nodes in the order of right, left, root.

    • Pop nodes from stack and add to result array.

    • Repeat until stack is empty.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Leetcode Problem 1626 - Best team with no conflicts.
Round 2 - System Design 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Design whatsapp with one to one, group messaging and read receipts functionalities. Design the database.
  • Ans. 

    Design a messaging app like WhatsApp with one-to-one, group messaging, and read receipts functionalities.

    • Use a relational database to store user information, messages, and group memberships.

    • Create tables for users, messages, groups, and group memberships.

    • Include columns for message content, sender, receiver, timestamp, and read status.

    • Implement a feature to mark messages as read with read receipts.

    • Use indexes for effic

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Questions on dbms, cn and os.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

3D DP, DP ON BST, Focus on highlevel dp and system design

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
Not Selected
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. LRU Cache - how to tackle
  • Ans. 

    LRU Cache is a data structure that maintains a list of items in order of most recently used to least recently used.

    • Implement using a doubly linked list and a hashmap for efficient operations

    • When an item is accessed, move it to the front of the list

    • When the cache is full, remove the least recently used item from the end of the list

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. LRU Cache implementation based on a real time system. How would the main work which will be called etc etc
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