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Prep/Companies/Swiggy

Food & delivery · Bengaluru

Swiggy.

Food delivery, Instamart quick commerce and Dineout, with its own delivery-partner fleet and dispatch.

its questions lean on

low-level design with concurrency
inventory consistency
order-to-rider assignment
scheduling
schema and API design

The rounds, as candidates describe them

Online assessmentThree DSA problems.source ↗
DSA and fundamentalsOne hour, run by a third-party interviewer; two problems with fully running code, then language fundamentals.source ↗
Low-level designOne hour; project deep dive, then a design-and-code problem with questions on data-structure choices.source ↗
Hiring managerPast architecture deep dive with HLD and engineering trade-off questions.source ↗

Reported by candidates

From public interview write-ups; each links its source.

Design an inventory management system for InstamartLow-level design
SQ-12 · Blinkit Quick Commerce →W02 · BOSS · The Ultimate System Design Interview →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Swiggy SDE-2 interview experience (2026) ↗
Design a warehouse management system for InstamartSystem design
SQ-12 · Blinkit Quick Commerce →W05 · DAY 02 · Distributed Transactions — The Saga Pattern →W03 · DAY 02 · Transactional Outbox →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Swiggy SDE-2 interview experience, remote (2025) ↗
Design a system that assigns drivers to ordersLow-level design
SQ-17 · Swiggy Food Delivery →IP-13 · Design a Proximity Service →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Swiggy SDE-1 interview experience (2026) ↗
Design a coupon-based discount systemLow-level design
W04 · DAY 01 · Caching Patterns →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Swiggy SDE-2 interview experience (2024) ↗
Design a Parking LotLow-level design
LLD-01 · Design a Parking Lot →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Swiggy SDE-2 (backend) interview experience (2025) ↗LeetCode Discuss · Swiggy SDE-4 machine coding round, parking lot (2021) ↗
Design a train ticket booking systemSystem design
SQ-11 · IRCTC Tatkal Ticket Booking System →LLD-05 · Design a Movie Ticket Booking System →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Swiggy SDE-2 (backend) interview experience (2025) ↗
Design a Distributed Job SchedulerSystem design
IP-17 · Design a Distributed Job Scheduler →W02 · DAY 05 · Distributed Cron & Job Scheduling →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Swiggy Instamart SDE-1, round 3 (2025) ↗
Design Snake and LadderLow-level design
no lesson for this one yetreported in:LeetCode Discuss · Swiggy Instamart SDE-1, round 3 (2025) ↗
Design SplitwiseLow-level design
LLD-06 · Design a Bill-Splitting App (Splitwise) →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Swiggy SDE-2, India (2024) ↗
Design a cab booking systemLow-level design
SQ-09 · Uber →IP-13 · Design a Proximity Service →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Swiggy SDE-2 interview experience, 4 years (2025) ↗
Design a delivery-partner payout system with offersLow-level design
IP-20 · Design a Payment System →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Swiggy SDE-2, remote (2023) ↗
Design a News FeedSystem design
IP-07 · Design a News Feed →W04 · DAY 04 · Feed Caching →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Swiggy system design interview for SDE-3/4 (2022) ↗
Design book searchSystem design
W07 · DAY 01 · Search Fundamentals & Architecture →IP-09 · Design Typeahead Search (Autocomplete) →reported in:LeetCode Discuss · Swiggy full-stack SDE-2 interview experience (2025) ↗

Likely, from what they build

Our pick, not a report: questions that fit Swiggy's products.

Design a Food Delivery SystemSystem design
SQ-17 · Swiggy Food Delivery →W06 · BOSS · Food Delivery Order System →W03 · BOSS · Event-Driven Food Delivery Order System →

Study path

An ordered path through the course for Swiggy, and why each step is there.

01W06 · BOSSFood Delivery Order Systemthe whole food-delivery system as an interview
02SQ-09Ubermatching riders and drivers on a map (H3, ETAs)
03IP-13Design a Proximity Servicenearby search: geohash, quadtree, H3
04W06 · DAY 01Designing a Real-Time Notification Platformorder updates by push, SMS and in-app
05W06 · DAY 04Presence and Chat Fan-Out at Scalenotifications at dinner-time scale
06W05 · DAY 03Saga Orchestration Deep Diveorder → payment → restaurant → rider as one workflow
07SQ-12Blinkit Quick Commerce10-minute grocery delivery (Instamart territory)
08LLD-01Design a Parking Lotmachine coding round warm-up

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