Phonepe·Software Engineer

Phonepe Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted May 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a machine-coding round, then moved into DSA and a system-design evaluation, and finally ended with a manager discussion.

The machine-coding piece had a time-boxed challenge where I had 1 hour and 30 minutes to submit working code for an LLD-style problem. I got code to run within the window, but I couldn’t finish a chunk of the listed requirements—about one out of seven items didn’t make it.

In the evaluation round, the interviewer’s feedback started to feel more like a comparison against a fixed “ideal” solution than a conversation about tradeoffs. They quickly began pointing out details such as using a repository class and preferring a concurrent map over a plain map. What threw me off was how focused the

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