Acko General Insurance Full Stack Engineer interview experience

I had applied for an SDE-2 frontend position, but HR called me for an SDE-2 full stack role that was mostly frontend with a bit of backend.

The first round was a machine-coding task where I had to build a table component using only input and select elements. I implemented filtering and sorting by columns, rendered table content based on JSON arriving from the backend, and then handled pagination as follow-ups.

Next came system design: I was asked to design a messaging app like WhatsApp, covering one-to-one communication, group-style one-to-many messaging, chat listing, and a status feature