OLA Electric Interview Experience for SDE (On-Campus)
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There was a total of 3 rounds, There were no % criteria, open for CSE, IT, ECE, EI, EN streams.The position offered was Software Development Engineer(SDE)Round 1 (Online A...
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There was a total of 3 rounds, There were no % criteria, open for CSE, IT, ECE, EI, EN streams. The position offered was Software Development Engineer(SDE) Round 1 (Online Assessment): It was a 90 minutes online coding round. There were 3 coding questions (easy-medium) and all were mandatory to attempt. Questions covered were from arrays, string, DP. Easy question from strings. Medium question from the array . Knapsack problem with a small twist and we can pick one item more than once. Round 2 (Technical Round): It was a 40-50 minutes technical round on zoom. Tell me about yourself. Gave me 2-coding questions (medium-hard). https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/merge-k-sorted-arrays/ Make a special stack having properties of the stack along with additional popMin(), popMax(). popMin(), popMax() should me O(1) operation. Hint: Use two stacks one for popMin() and the other for popMax(), as an element enters the stack compare it with the top element of both stacks and update accordingly is it minPop stack or maxPop stack. Round 3 (HR round): It was 20 minutes round on zoom. Tell me about yourself. What do you know about OLA. Any issue you have ever faced with OLA Cabs and how will you fix it as developer. What projects you have worked on. What were the challenges you faced in your remote internship and how did you overcome them. Are you suitable with the office location.
Result Selected Received the mail the next day and got selected. TIP: Read about the company before your interview. I hope it will help you. Thank you
About This Question
This is a candidate experience report from a ola cabs interview for a swe role (intern level) during the oa round reported in 2025.
It covers the following topics: Strings, Dynamic Programming, Stack Queue, Arrays, Stack .
Difficulty rating: Easy
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Solve similar problems on LeetCode under timed conditions (25-35 minutes per medium difficulty). The goal is pattern recognition: recognize the underlying technique (sliding window, two-pointer, BFS, memoized recursion, etc.) within 60-90 seconds of reading. Strong candidates verbalize their hypothesis out loud before coding, then iterate based on feedback. Weak candidates dive into implementation immediately, lose time on the wrong approach, and run out of time for follow-ups.
Companies update their question pools every 2-4 months. The exact wording of any given question may have been retired by the time you interview. Focus your prep on the pattern, not the specific problem. The patterns that appear in Ola Cabs reports consistently are the ones worth investing in; one-off niche problems are not.
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Apply the standard interview round template: clarify requirements (2-3 minutes), state your approach out loud and confirm direction with the interviewer (3-5 minutes), code with narration (15-25 minutes), test with concrete examples including edge cases (5 minutes), discuss optimization or trade-offs if time permits (5 minutes). This template is universally accepted across FAANG and adjacent companies; deviating from it produces weaker interviewer feedback signal.
The single most predictive failure mode in Ola Cabs reports tagged "no hire": not asking clarifying questions. Interviewers are explicitly trained to weight this. Strong candidates ask 3-5 clarifying questions even on problems that look obvious; weak candidates dive into code immediately. The clarifying-question check is often the first signal recorded in the interviewer's written notes.