Nykaa·Backend Engineer

Nykaa Backend Engineer interview experience

SDE 2Posted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a short, DSA-and-project-focused process for a Java backend role, and it played out around a single LeetCode-style theme.

The first round was a DSA round paired with project discussion and follow-up questions. I was asked two DSA problems, and one of them was the “populate next right pointers in each node” problem.

During the DSA part, the conversation wasn’t only about arriving at the result—it also turned into an explanation check, where they followed up on how I was thinking. After that, the interview pivoted into my project work, and I had to connect the algorithms back to what I had done, answering questions that dug into my implementation choices.

By the end, I didn’t make it forward, but the overall

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