Swiggy Software Engineer interview experience

After a parking-lot coding task, I waited almost four hours for the next stage. When the interviewer finally looked at my code, it was already working; they suggested some optimization and asked additional scaling and DS questions. I answered those correctly, yet the result was an immediate rejection.

What surprised me was how little weight the evaluation seemed to place on the progress I’d made during the interview. The interviewer interaction ended up feeling like a formality rather than a real assessment. I left that day honestly frustrated, because the process didn’t map to the quality