Phonepe QA Automation Engineer interview experience

The interview was four rounds: DS/Algo, Automation, Functional, and then Managerial.

In the first programming-heavy rounds, I felt the questions weren’t explained with much depth and sometimes looked repetitive, with expectations that matched answer sheets almost verbatim. When I deviated, I ended up needing to justify the reasoning in more detail than felt necessary, and it slowed everything down. The functional round skewed heavily toward manual testing, which made up a large portion—around seventy percent—of the evaluation.

By the time the managerial round arrived, it felt procedural,