Swiggy·Software Engineer

Swiggy Software Engineer interview experience

HardCandidate report, summarized by Dataford

For Swiggy at the SDE 2 level, I took an online HackerRank test, and it was honestly one of the most brutal parts of the process.

There were three coding questions to solve in 90 minutes, and the difficulty felt skewed—two of the problems weren’t even “hard,” while one was genuinely challenging. The timing was the real problem; it didn’t feel realistically possible to solve everything within the 90-minute window.

I had to rely on fast input/output and handle the full input properly, not just write a clean solution. The HR told me the cutoff was 250 out of 300, and if I scored below that there would be an internal discussion. Based on how it went for me, I guessed I was around 130–140.

That score uncertainty was the

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