Shopee Software Development Engineer interview questions
based on 3 ratings - Updated 24 Apr 2020
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Software Development Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Shopee with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Shopee overall takes an average of 19 days.
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Shopee in Feb 2020
Interview
The Interview process was very smooth.
First Round was an online technical round in which there were 2 medium leetcode questions.
After that, there were 1 HR Round and 3 Technical Round, All the technical Round was held on the Zoom platform
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1:) Backspace String Compare
2:) Given a singly linked list L0 -> L1 -> … -> Ln-1 -> Ln. Rearrange the nodes in the list so that the new formed list is : L0 -> Ln -> L1 -> Ln-1 -> L2 -> Ln-2 …
3:) Count number of nodes that are less than k unit from the binary tree(parent pointer is not given)
4:) HTTP vs HTPPS, DNS, 4-way Handshaking, TCP vs UDP.
5:) Indexing, How to store the password in DB?
6:) Mutex Vs Semaphore.
7:) Smart Pointer
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Shopee (Bengaluru) in Feb 2018
Interview
One HR round and three technical interviews.
First technical round focused on the simple DSA questions.
Second technical round asked one algorithm question and some simple design questions.
Third round mainly focused on the HLD and LLD design.
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I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Shopee
Interview
Had a 40 min software engineering mcq question. They brought us to a room with a few other candidates where they gave us a question paper and a rough paper to answer the questions. There were some IQ questions, some basic algorithm, sorting, searching, OS, networking and bitwise manipulation questions.