Jio Software Engineer interview experience

I was asked to discuss projects, and then I got a prompt to write sorting logic out. I remember the interviewer referencing common sorting approaches like bubble sort and insertion sort, but I specifically had to write merge sort.

The round felt fairly clear-cut—less about broad system design and more about whether I could express the algorithm correctly. Because it was only one round, it didn’t give me much room to recover if any detail was shaky.

I ended up getting rejected and didn’t receive an offer. Looking back, the experience was easy in structure but unforgiving in that it centered