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As per my personal experience. Before we think about the interview process, we need to be confident in what we know. We need to have a basic idea about the topics which ar...
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As per my personal experience. Before we think about the interview process, we need to be confident in what we know. We need to have a basic idea about the topics which are covered in any Technology. We need to have all the ideas regarding topics and analytic skills regarding the technologies. Round 1:Technical round: It all depends on the interviewer. I am from .net background. The interviewer asked me about the Oops concepts with examples. Code explanation for all the oops concepts. As I got questions like: 1. Reverse sting 2. palindrome of a string 3. palindrome number I qualified for the first round. As I say that logical coding or logical thinking is more than enough.
Round 2 As the round starts, the interviewer started asking topics related to arrays. arrange the array of numbers in descending order Find the maximum number in an array Topics related to an abstract class, interface class with the example given by the interviewer. I need to explain the flow and the use of those classes and why we use those classes. Most interviewers will ask on practical knowledge and practical behavior of the technologies and skills which we use. There are lots of questions which have been asked me.
Round 3 In a few companies, this will be the managerial round. Even though, the questions asked are about the design patterns, architectural questions. Basically we need to be in full enhance the way of learning which can be visualized. So, my suggestion is all about. There are a lot of websites and video tutorials for interview preparation. Instead of learning the interview questions for interviews, learn with practical implementation just with a small example for each topic. Thanks, All the best for the interviews.
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This is a reported interview question from a ola cabs interview for a swe role during the phone screen round reported in 2021.
It covers the following topics: Arrays, Strings, Oop .
Difficulty rating: Easy
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This question was reported by a candidate who interviewed at Ola Cabs. LeakCode aggregates interview reports from 10+ sources, including 1Point3Acres, Glassdoor, LeetCode Discuss, Blind, Reddit, Indeed, and Nowcoder. Each report is translated where necessary, deduplicated against existing entries, and tagged by company, role, round type, and reporting date.
Use this question as one calibration data point, not a memorization target. Companies typically rotate their question pools every 2-4 months; the exact wording of a 2024 question may differ from what you encounter today. The underlying pattern, difficulty level, and follow-up depth at Ola Cabs are the higher-signal extractions to take from this report.
For broader preparation context, the Ola Cabs interview process typically includes a recruiter screen, one or two technical phone screens, and a 4-5 round on-site loop covering coding, system design (at L4+ levels), and behavioral. Reports tagged on LeakCode show the round-by-round distribution and typical difficulty calibration. To browse questions filtered by round type and seniority, use the company hub linked above.
How To Practice This Type of Question
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.
During Your Ola Cabs Round
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.