Flipkart machine coding round, and the SDE loop around it.

These rounds are reported by candidates for SDE-1 to SDE-3 roles in Bengaluru between 2024 and 2026, and they match reports going back to 2015. Experienced hires often start at the machine coding round with no online test. Some drives run all rounds in one day at the office; others spread them over a week or two.

Candidates describe three parts. First, 15 to 30 minutes on the requirements, where you can ask questions. Then about 90 minutes of coding on your own laptop, in any language, sometimes screen-recorded with no interviewer in the room. Then a demo and a review, where the interviewer runs your program, adds a requirement and checks how you handle bad input. The checks reported across sources are: the code runs and the demo works, edge cases and exceptions are handled, the design is modular and object-oriented, a new requirement fits in with a small change, and, at SDE-3, the code is safe when used from several threads. A console program with in-memory data is expected; no database, web server or UI unless you are told otherwise.

• Conference room allocation: Reported in a two-hour SDE-1 round: buildings, floors and rooms, booked by time slot. Model Building, Floor, Room and Booking, keep each room's bookings in a map from slot to booking, and put the availability check in one method. Edge cases were the main emphasis: overlapping slots, unknown rooms and cancelling a booking that doesn't exist.
• Interviewer allocation: Reported in an SDE-2 round: two interview types and interviewers with preferred time slots. Make the interview type an interface or enum with its own rules, and pick interviewers with a strategy you can swap. Interviewers then asked how to add a new type or slot, and booked an invalid slot to test exception handling.
• Food ordering system: Reported in 2024 (SDE-3) and 2025 (SDE-2): restaurants, menus, orders and a rule for which restaurant gets an order. Keep the selection rule (lowest price, best rating) behind one interface. At SDE-3, make order placement and restaurant capacity thread-safe.
• Text editor with undo and redo: Reported in an SDE-1 round: insert, delete, copy, paste, undo and redo on lines of text. Store each action as a command object with its own undo, keep an undo stack and a redo stack, and clear the redo stack after any new action.
• Employee bonus rules: Reported in an older SDE-2 round: an employee hierarchy with bonuses for the top performers, then a new rule added live, such as excluding anyone who joined in the last six months. Write each eligibility rule as its own class so the new rule is one more class in a list.
• Practice problems people use: Splitwise with debt simplification, snake and ladder, a parking lot, a digital wallet and a gym slot booking app are common practice problems for this round. Build each in 90 minutes from a blank project, then add one feature you didn't plan for and see how much code you had to change.
• Using the 90 minutes: Spend the first minutes listing must-have features and asking about anything unclear. Get the core flow running end to end within the first hour, with sample data loaded at start-up and a simple command loop. Then add validation, then the extras. A working program with fewer features beats a well-designed one that doesn't run.

Calibrd can't watch you code for 90 minutes. It can rehearse the review and the questions around it: explaining your design, the extension, the edge cases and the design round.

Flipkart lists five values on its early careers page and says its interviews combine technical, functional and value-based assessments. In its own words:

• Audacity: we think big and take bold bets
• Bias for Action: a strong sense of urgency to solve problems strategically
• Customer First: we look at the world from our customers' point of view
• Integrity: we strive to do what is right, and do what we say we will do
• Inclusion: we value the uniqueness of everyone and foster a sense of belonging

These are the problems and questions candidates report from Flipkart rounds, with practice prompts in our own words where the exact problem isn't public. The machine coding problems change between drives; the checks don't, so practise against the checks.

Flipkart's job listings don't show pay, and the figures on salary sites are self-reported and unconfirmed, so they're left out here. Ask the recruiter for the fixed pay, the bonus and the stock part of any offer separately.

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1. Build five machine coding problems from a blank project, 90 minutes each, with a timer: conference rooms, a food ordering app, a text editor with undo, Splitwise and a parking lot.
2. After each one, have a friend add a rule you didn't plan for, and count how many existing files you had to change.
3. Write a small project skeleton you can set up in five minutes in your chosen language: models, services, a command loop and sample data.
4. Feed every program bad input: an unknown ID, a slot out of range, a duplicate booking. It should refuse clearly and never crash.
5. For SDE-3, make one of your builds thread-safe and be ready to explain where the race was.
6. Practise LeetCode-medium graph, tree and interval problems on paper or in a plain document, explaining the complexity aloud.
7. For SDE-2 and above, prepare both a low-level design (classes) and a high-level design (services and data) for one Flipkart-like system.
8. Prepare one story for each of Flipkart's values, with a number, for the hiring manager round.

This guide covers software engineer hiring at Flipkart in India, from SDE-1 to SDE-3 and UI engineer, plus GRiD for students. Flipkart publishes no experienced-hire interview process, so the rounds come from candidate reports, marked as such. For management and leadership roles the loop is similar but the bar shifts to people, delivery and strategy, so pair it with the leadership interview prep hub. The bar for your exact role comes from the role-by-role guides, and the prep that actually transfers is spoken, so run a mock interview before the real one.

Also interviewing at TCS, Infosys or Zoho? Their guides follow the same format, from the first screen to the offer.

• 01Flipkart, early careersthe five values in Flipkart's words, the screening assessment then interviews, technical, functional and value-based assessments, and entry roles filled mostly through interns (read 8 November 2026).
• 02Flipkart, GRiD 8.0three tracks, the 90-minute proctored test, the build-and-ship case study, the Bengaluru hackathon for the top 48, classes 2027 to 2030, registration 19 June to 12 July 2026 (read 8 November 2026).
• 03Flipkart Stories, values ambassadors (7 February 2020)the earlier four values, before Inclusion was added.
• 04Flipkart Stories, new engineering leaders (31 March 2026)a VP of Engineering for central platforms and a VP of Program Management.
• 05Angel One, Flipkart appoints three senior executives (13 June 2026)VPs for data science and AI and for fintech and payments engineering, and a Distinguished Architect.
• 06Inc42, Flipkart lays off about 500 after its performance review (6 March 2026)3 to 4% of staff; Flipkart called it a small percentage.
• 07Business Standard, Flipkart cuts 300 jobs (6 March 2026)a lower count of the same review-linked cuts.
• 08PYMNTS, Walmart tells Flipkart to shelve IPO plans (15 May 2026)citing Moneycontrol: break-even by the end of FY27 first.
• 09Storyboard18, Flipkart to hire 5,000 in 2025 (May 2025)hiring focused on Flipkart Minutes and super.money, announced at a 26 May 2025 townhall.
• 10workat.tech, Flipkart machine coding round (third party)the requirements, 90-minute coding and demo stages, and the criteria: readable, modular, testable, working, extensible, with error handling (read 8 November 2026).
• 11Taro, Flipkart SDE-3 Bengaluru (1 December 2024)a 90-minute food order management build, concurrency essential at SDE-3, and a code review with a Flipkart developer the next day.
• 12Taro, Flipkart SDE-2 Bengaluru (27 June 2025)a 30-minute briefing, 90 minutes of screen-recorded coding, and grading on SOLID principles and design patterns.
• 13Taro, Flipkart SDE-2 Bengaluru (17 July 2025)the food ordering problem and a low-level design round on a notification system.
• 14GeeksforGeeks, Flipkart SDE-2 interview experience (undated)the interviewer allocation build, extension questions on new types and slots, the invalid slot 9 test, two problem solving rounds and a ledger design.
• 15GeeksforGeeks, Flipkart SDE-1 interview experience (undated)a two-hour conference room allocation build where edge cases were the main emphasis.
• 16GeeksforGeeks, Flipkart SDE-1 interview experience (undated)120 minutes with must-have and bonus features, and object-oriented design expected.
• 17GeeksforGeeks, Flipkart SDE-1 set 48 (February 2018)a 90-minute text editor with undo and redo, and snake and ladder as a problem solving question.
• 18GeeksforGeeks, Flipkart SDE-2 set 38 (November 2015)an employee bonus build with a new eligibility rule added live.
• 19Roundz, Flipkart UI Engineer 2 interview (11 April 2025)two hours of machine coding in plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript with review, then problem solving, UI technology, product sense and hiring manager rounds.
• 20Unstop, Flipkart hiring process (third party)HackerRank for the online assessment and a hiring committee decision (read 8 November 2026).

Interview processes change. This reflects widely-reported and sourced conditions as of 2026 — confirm specifics with your recruiter, and treat it as a map rather than a guarantee.