Nykaa Software Engineer interview experience

The process started with DSA-heavy rounds where the problems were mostly medium-level, and I had to work through both standard patterns and topic areas like sliding window and interval merging. At various points, I was also pulled toward other themes like greedy logic, graph problems, and even DP, depending on what the interviewer selected.

Alongside the DSA work, I went into a low-level design style round that sometimes blended into higher-level thinking too, so I couldn’t treat it as purely “basic design.” That round had the same pressure as the coding stage, because I had to explain