Disney+HotStar Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Recruiter coordination felt a bit messy, but the actual interviews were solid and the interviewers were respectful.

After the recruiter touchpoint, I moved through two technical rounds.

The first round was an “AI fluency” style problem. It wasn’t just a typical system design prompt where you describe a clean high-level architecture; the scope was heavier because the problem explicitly depended on how AI would be used. I had to think about how the proposed system would attach to an existing setup and, importantly, the interface between inputs and the overall flow was something I still had to decide during the round itself.

The second round was a high-level design. That HLD portion felt distinctly hard and

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