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Commerce · Bengaluru

Flipkart.

India's large e-commerce marketplace, with its own catalogue, checkout, payments (including Pay Later) and logistics.

its questions lean on
  • machine coding with clean OOP
  • schema and API design
  • booking and inventory consistency
  • flash-sale scale
  • ledgers and payments

The rounds, as candidates describe them

  1. Machine coding90 minutes to build a working in-memory module from a written problem, submitted as code; followed by a separate evaluation call to demo and explain it.source ↗
  2. Problem solving and data structures (PS/DS)One hour, two data-structure problems.source ↗
  3. Design roundOne hour; schema, API and high-level design for a product, with scalability discussion.source ↗
  4. Hiring managerDeep dive into past projects and their design choices, plus behavioural questions.source ↗

Reported by candidates

From public interview write-ups; each links its source.

Likely, from what they build

Our pick, not a report: questions that fit Flipkart's products.

Study path

An ordered path through the course for Flipkart, and why each step is there.

  1. 01W02 · BOSSThe Ultimate System Design Interviewthe sale-day spike: rate limits, idempotent claims, no overselling
  2. 02W04 · BOSSDesign a Global E-Commerce Product Catalog Systema product catalog read millions of times, written rarely
  3. 03W04 · DAY 03Thundering Herdwhat a cache expiry does at peak traffic
  4. 04W07 · DAY 01Search Fundamentals & Architectureproduct search basics: inverted index, analysis
  5. 05W07 · DAY 03Query Processing & Relevanceranking results people actually click
  6. 06W03 · BOSSEvent-Driven Food Delivery Order Systemorders as events: outbox, retries, dead letters
  7. 07SQ-12Blinkit Quick Commercethe quick-commerce cousin: stock, dark stores, slots
  8. 08LLD-01Design a Parking Lotmachine coding round warm-up
  9. 09LLD-05Design a Movie Ticket Booking Systemmachine coding with concurrency: holds and bookings

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