Swiggy is India's leading on-demand delivery platform, operating food delivery, Instamart (quick commerce), and Swiggy Genie (courier). Their engineering team in Bangalore works on hyper-local logistics, real-time order tracking, supply-demand matching, recommendation systems, and high-throughput payment systems. Swiggy is known for a rigorous SDE process with a unique **Machine Coding Round** — a hallmark of their process — that tests OOP design and clean code.
The typical hiring process journey
3-4 coding problems (Easy to Hard) including arrays, matrices, graphs, trees, and sometimes an SQL query. Optimize from brute-force to optimal.
Build a complete working application in 90 minutes (e.g., Calendar App, Snake & Ladder, CRUD API for food orders). Focus on OOP class design, extensibility, and clean code — not just correctness.
Array/matrix problems (rotate matrix, row with max 1s, sorted matrix search), string problems (expand pattern), and graph/tree problems.
LRU Cache, median of stream, stock buy/sell, implement concurrent queue, Mutex vs Semaphore, concurrent vs parallel programming.
HLD for food delivery platform, database design, SQL queries with JOINs, and behavioral questions.
What to expect in the onsite/virtual loops
3-4 Coding problems on HackerRank.
Build a functional app in 90 minutes — OOP, clean code, extensibility.
Arrays, matrices, strings, trees, and graphs.
LRU Cache, streams, concurrency, database design.
HLD + behavioral (SDE-2+ roles).
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Feature ownership and system design.
Real-time data pipelines for logistics and analytics.
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