Ixigo

Role: SDE-1

College: Not Specified

Interview Date: 2025-07-23

Interview Type: Full-Time (2-3 Years Experienced)

Result: Not Specified

Difficulty: Medium

Rounds: 4 rounds

Topics Asked: Data Structures, Algorithms, Project Discussion, Low-Level Design, Database, String Manipulation.

Experience:

This experience was for an SDE-1 position for candidates with 2-3 years of experience. The interview process was arranged by a recruiter and consisted of 4 rounds, with the final round being with the CTO/Founder. Interviewers reviewed the CV in detail and were interested in the candidate's motivation to join Ixigo.

Round 1:
Two medium-level questions.

Round 2:
Discussion on past company projects, Low-Level Design (LLD) patterns, and implementation of a Singleton class. Another problem involved designing a "Person" class with a "Friends" list, discussing how to fetch data, retrieve concurrently, get 1st and 2nd-degree friends, and synchronization in the class.

Round 3:
Provide approach and code for the problem: "Sentence that contains all the given phrases". This round also involved nested DML queries to fetch data from a friends' table and designing a DB table for this.

Round 4: CTO/Founder Round
This round was with the CTO/Founder.