I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Swiggy (Bengaluru) in Jun 2018
Interview
Got a call from a recruitment agency for interviewing at Swiggy. They scheduled the interview on the same weekend. They had 4 rounds but the process was painfully slow. Half an hour of interview round followed by 1-2 hours for wait. It was as if the HR kept on forgetting you were there :p
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Machine Coding round: Write a scalable, extensible code for the given scenario.
I recently attended an interview for swiggy. It was a drive on weekend. I must say, this is one of the worst experiences I ever had. We were given a machine coding question(parking lot) to start with. After waiting around almost 4 hours for the next round, the interviewer looks at my code, which was a well working, suggests and optimization and after asking one scaling and ds question, which I answered correctly, its a straight reject. I would rate the interviewer quality as very poor here.
I applied in-person. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Swiggy
Interview
The process was straightforward with one telephonic round post which I was informed that there will be 4 more rounds.
Though a whole day was requested by HR and she had scheduled for 4 remote rounds, after two rounds, there was no information whether there would be any further rounds or not.
So, it was like, wait and if you get a call, interview starts else not.
Moreover, there was a designated design round in which even after 50 minutes, it was not clear what exactly did the interviewer expected as an answer. He kept on insisting provide the design to which I asked what part of it do you want, do you want DB/schema, or flow or the system components to which the reply was, what do you mean by design.
So, I guess either I was not smart enough to get him or he was not able to make the requirements clear.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The questions were related to DS, design, and architecture. Disclosing them here is not suitable as per me.