PhonePe
Digital payments company in India running a UPI payments app, merchant payments and insurance, lending and investment products.
Bengaluru, India
1,000 to 5,000
1,000 to 4,999 peopleNot known
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WebsiteHow they hire
Accounts come mostly from experienced hires in Bengaluru. Design rounds are reported for SDE-2 and above, and the order of rounds varies.
- 1
Online assessment or DSA screen
UnverifiedOnline testRemoteTimed coding problems of easy to medium difficulty on arrays, strings, trees, graphs and heaps. Not every candidate reports this step.
- 2
Machine coding round
Reported +2Live coding1.5 hoursBuild a small working system, such as a snakes and ladders game or a multilevel cache, with modular, extensible object oriented code that actually runs. The interviewer then adds requirements or discusses trade offs.
Low level designOOPWorking code - 3
Problem solving and data structures
Reported +2Technical interviewLive algorithm questions, often two or more medium problems with the reasoning explained aloud.
DSA - 4
Design round
Reported +1System designHigh level design of a service such as a flight aggregator, with attention to storage, service boundaries and failure handling. Mainly for SDE-2 and above.
System design - 5
Hiring manager round
Reported +1Hiring managerA long conversation about current projects and technology choices, motivation for moving, and behavioural questions. It can include a design question too.
What comes up
Recurring themes from candidate accounts, not a question bank. Nobody is served by leaked question lists, least of all you in the interview.
Clean, runnable low level design
Reported +1The machine coding round is judged on whether the code works and how easily it absorbs a new requirement, not on diagrams.
Payments flavoured design
UnverifiedDesign prompts for experienced hires reportedly lean towards money movement: transaction status, ledgers, reconciliation and retries.
Owning your past projects
Reported +1The hiring manager digs into recent work and why particular databases or approaches were chosen.
Worth reading before you apply
From the Sefism resource library, matched to the rounds above.
A foundations course that builds eleven core data structures from the ground up (arrays, matrices, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees and BSTs, hash tables, hash sets, heaps, graphs and tries), then covers sorting, searching, greedy and divide and conquer. Every chapter has practice problems, flashcards and an assessment. It suits students and career switchers whose foundations came from tutorials and who find pattern courses move too fast.
- Job search
- DSA
- CS fundamentals
A browsable practice library of coding problems that can be filtered by pattern, data structure, difficulty and company, so you can drill exactly the weakness you found this week. Patterns include two pointers, sliding window, hash maps, stacks, backtracking and greedy algorithms, with company filters for Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle and LinkedIn. Free to browse, with an in-browser editor and solutions.
- Job search
- DSA
A learning path that bundles five courses into one sequence for system design preparation: System Design Fundamentals, Grokking the System Design Interview, Advanced System Design Interview Volume II, Grokking Microservices Design Patterns and Grokking Design Patterns for Engineers and Managers. Together they add up to 76 chapters and 666 lessons. It suits engineers who want a complete, ordered curriculum instead of assembling one from scattered posts.
- System design
- Job search
- Career
A free newsletter of short, focused posts on system design and problem solving, from the team behind the Grokking courses. Recent posts cover company interview processes (such as OpenAI and Anthropic roles), the most asked mobile system design questions and preparation plans, each linking to a fuller article on the blog. It suits engineers who want a steady, low-effort way to keep system design and interview topics fresh between deeper study sessions.
- System design
- DSA
A very large site of articles on data structures, algorithms and core CS subjects such as operating systems, DBMS, computer networks and OOP, usually with code in several languages, plus practice problems and paid courses. It is handy for revising a university topic or finding a worked example of a specific algorithm. Quality varies because much is community written, so cross-check anything surprising against a textbook or official documentation.
- DSA
- CS fundamentals
- Databases
An eight-stage roadmap through the core CS subjects: how a computer runs a program, OOP and design, operating systems, computer networks, database theory and internals, software engineering and theory, finished with a systems project such as a shell, an HTTP server or a tiny database. It suits CS students and self-taught developers filling the same gaps, and favours understanding shown in working code over memorised answers.
- DSA
- CS fundamentals
- Databases
What it pays
Nothing collected for this company yet, and nothing worth guessing at. A made-up range is worse than no range because people negotiate against it.
Universities they recruit from
No sourced university links yet. A campus drive, a career fair appearance or an internship partnership is what puts a university here.
How to actually get seen
Practise building a small system end to end in about 90 minutes, with separate classes and a quick demo, then refactor it for a new rule. For senior roles, rehearse designs that deal with retries, duplicates and partial failure.
Sources
- PhonePe websiteread 2026-09-22
- GeeksforGeeks: PhonePe interview experience, SDE-2read 2026-09-22
- GeeksforGeeks: PhonePe interview experience, under 2 yearsread 2026-09-22
- Greenroom: PhonePe interview questions and processread 2026-09-22
Whole profile last checked 2026-09-22.
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