Blinkit·Software Engineer·Onsite - Multi Round
May 2026
Three rounds at Blinkit for an SDE role: a DSA round, a system design round, and a so-called culture fit round that turned out to be a brutal resume interrogation. First two went well enough to get strong hire verdicts, but the third round exposed some resume padding and that was that.
- Count the number of islands in a matrix.
- Why would you break up a large file into chunks before uploading it to object storage?
- You have an append-only table with an auto-incrementing ID, a timestamp, and a payload. Design a purge mechanism to delete records older than 30 days.
- Deep-dive questions into resume projects and past experience.
“Talked through it orally in about five minutes which felt fine.”