The Meesho reports here describe an SDE-1 online assessment and a separate lateral-hiring process. The latter writer had several months of experience and described DSA, low-level design, and a hiring-manager round. Keep the level difference in mind when choosing practice.
\nOne candidate remembered a grid problem asking for the fewest jumps from S to E (source). Jumps could travel any distance in a cardinal direction, but direction changes depended on the previous jump length; blocked cells could not be crossed. The full rules and example are in the Meesho SDE-1 OA report on LeetCode Discuss (year not stated in source text). The candidate said the test had three problems and they solved two, but the other prompts are not named here.
The later-hiring report describes a round to implement poll methods: create, delete, update, vote, and print results (source). The candidate also reported Minimum Number of Taps to Open to Water a Garden in the DSA round (source). The source names the question and describes the poll requirements in the Meesho interview experience (2024).
\nThe same DSA round included heap implementation, heap sort, heapify, and a discussion about removing an arbitrary element in logarithmic time (source). The hiring-manager round asked for an inventory system that prevents overselling under simultaneous checkouts (source), and a leaderboard that pairs a new player with someone of a similar rating (source). Those system prompts are described in the same report.
\nFor the grid question, model both position and the rule governing direction changes; ordinary shortest-path intuition may miss state. For poll and inventory design, define update behavior and concurrency before writing methods. The reports do not establish Meesho's current rounds, so use them as practice examples rather than a prediction. For more preparation, see the system design guide and interview question guide.
\nThe SDE-1 candidate described a grid path problem with jumps, blocked cells, and direction changes tied to the previous jump length. The other two OA prompts were not named in the source report.
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