Phonepe·Backend Engineer

Phonepe Backend Engineer interview experience

SDE-IIIPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I joined a machine coding round for a backend role where multiple candidates were present on the call.

The interviewer came in, gave the problem, and then asked each of us to solve it independently after instructions. Once I finished, I shared my solution.

That round had the same pressure and rhythm throughout: listen, implement on my own, then communicate the result. The distinct part for me was that it wasn’t a one-on-one coding interview—it felt more like a simultaneous coding session with an explicit expectation to be ready with a working output.

Overall, it stayed focused on execution and getting to a complete solution under the round’s constraints, and that format made the experience

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