Swiggy·Backend Engineer

Swiggy Backend Engineer interview experience

SDE 1Posted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied for a Backend Engineer role at Swiggy after HR sent me the OA link directly.

The online assessment had three LeetCode-medium style problems: one on sliding window, one described as shortest path in a graph, and a final array/math-style problem about finding an nth root.

After clearing the OA, the next round combined DSA with Java and Spring. The technical topics I saw again were very aligned with the OA themes—sliding window showed up, shortest path in a graph came up, and there was also an array problem around nth root.

What surprised me was how directly the second round echoed the OA problem types instead of switching to totally different fundamentals. I felt like

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