I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Ola (Bengaluru) in Oct 2025
Interview
Overall the interview process consisted of 4 rounds. The 1st round was DSA, Second round focused on core java, Third round was on System Design and the last round was HR round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked to code a LRU cache, Design a hashmap data structure, Questions related to multithreading , Design a custom load balancer etc
I applied online. I interviewed at Ola (Bengaluru)
Interview
- online coding medium question
- 3 face two face interview including 1 on system design
- HR round including salary negotiations
- Team matching, discusssion with manager on teams
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- local minima
- poker table assignment
- priority queue
I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Ola (London, England) in Jan 2018
Interview
There were a total of 4 interview round. The preliminary round was a hacker rank test from home which had 2 easy and two hard questions.
Then I was called to their office and the first round there were two very very easy coding questions after that there were two technical interviews where questions like implement an LRU cache, spiral traversal of matrix, etc were asked. After those round there was a hiring manager round where questions related to tree was asked where you should print nodes at k distance from a given node which I was not able to pass
