Nykaa

Role: SDE-2

College: Not Specified

Interview Date: July 12, 2025

Interview Type: Full-Time

Result: Not Specified

Difficulty: Not Specified

Rounds: 3 rounds

Topics Asked: Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, DBMS, Java Memory Management, Projects

Experience:

All rounds for this SDE-2 interview happened on the same day.

Round 1 (Written Round): This was a pen and paper round with two coding questions. The questions were "Given an array of numbers, arrange the numbers to form the biggest number" and "Find paths given source destination".

Round 2 (F2F): This round began with a detailed discussion of the problems from the first round. An additional coding question was asked: "Find the smallest positive number missing from an unsorted array".

Round 3 (F2F): The third round involved a detailed discussion about the candidate's projects and their architecture. A system design question was posed: "Design Tiny Url System". Further technical questions included "How indexing works in MySql", "How memory is managed in Java", and a database query question using subqueries.