Phonepe·Software Engineer

Phonepe Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Jun 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter stage, I ended up with a technical round that felt pretty standard for PhonePe: two DSA problems followed by one system-design question.

The DSA portion leaned into data structures and required careful use of binary search and combinations. One problem was framed around finding a value using binary search, and another was about generating/counting valid subsets, which pushed me toward a DP approach rather than a brute-force enumeration.

For the system design, the interviewer anchored it around a familiar “Google News–style” setup, with an emphasis on scalability and concurrency. The hardest part wasn’t just naming components—it was explaining how the data structures supported throughput and how concurrency concerns would be

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