Shopclues Interview Experience | Set 2 (On-Campus)
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Shopclues visited our campus. The first round consisted of 25 MCQs(15 technical + 10 aptitude) to be solved in 25 minutes.10 students out of 40 cleared the first round.Fir...
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Shopclues visited our campus. The first round consisted of 25 MCQs(15 technical + 10 aptitude) to be solved in 25 minutes. 10 students out of 40 cleared the first round. First
Technical interview The questions were based mostly on project and java based questions. Since my project was on Android. I was asked the use of gradle and various layouts and differences between them.After that,he asked me what is an activity and a fragment and difference between them. Can a fragment sustain without an activity? In JAVA, I was asked the difference between Abstract classes and Interface.When do we use Abstract class and when do we use an interface? What is a singleton class and its implementation? This round lasted for 40-45 minutes. 8 were shortlisted for the
next round. Second Techical Interview : There were few questions on Data Structures and the rest on Android and JAVA. He asked about my project. And gave me some puzzles to solve. 1. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/aptitude/puzzle-29-car-wheel-puzzle/ 2. Given 1GB of RAM and 10GB of data.How would you sort it? I used merge sort. This round lasted for another 70-75 minutes. 4 were shorlisted after this round. Final
HR round Introduce yourself and family background. 1. Number of OLA Cabs in your city. 2. Write 30 words related to jobs. 3. Schedule a given schedule according to work-life balance. This round lasted for another 70-75 minutes. 2 were shortlisted after this round and I was one of them :) All the best :)
About This Question
This is a reported interview question from a shopclues interview for a android role during the recruiter round reported in 2017.
It covers the following topics: Sorting, Networking .
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About Shopclues Interview Reports
This question was reported by a candidate who interviewed at Shopclues. 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 Shopclues are the higher-signal extractions to take from this report.
For broader preparation context, the Shopclues 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 Shopclues reports consistently are the ones worth investing in; one-off niche problems are not.
During Your Shopclues 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 Shopclues 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.