Phonepe Software Engineer interview experience

The first part was a machine coding round lasting about 1.5 hours, where I had to submit a solution with specific expectations like a modular structure, exception handling, validations, and concurrency control.

After that, there was an evaluation round focused on how scalable and extensible my code was. They also asked about what more I could have done, and there was time spent on validations in the code plus explanation of my approach.

This was the closest experience I had where the interviewers cared about design quality and how the system would behave, not just whether the algorithm