Money Forward India

It was quite a medium to hard side interview....with dsa question in both the technical rounds. After technical there was a hr round which was mostly on behaviour questions after these i was given the offer letter.

The interview focused on backend architecture, scalability, database consistency, SQL/NoSQL concepts, and database querying. You explained frontend-to-backend communication, bottleneck mitigation, scaling approaches, and Django ORM usage. The interviewer identified gaps in practical experience with live applications, CAP theorem, replication, and NoSQL, and suggested studying real-world systems such as Instagram. Questions How does a frontend service communicate with a backend, and what layers are involved? How would you handle a backend bottleneck caused by thousands or hundreds of thousands of requests? How do horizontal and vertical scaling work? Which scaling approach would you choose for approximately 10,000 requests? What problems can arise with horizontal scaling? How do real-world horizontally scaled applications handle data inconsistency? Is using a central database a good idea in a horizontally scaled system? How is database replication managed, and can users read stale data from replicas? What is the difference between SQL and NoSQL databases? How did you query the database and handle transactions?

Was pretty much hard for the package they provide. Focused on DSA, Projects, Communication and knowledge on core CS. Three rounds totally and some got good panel members and some got bad panel members.

I had an interview conducted by the Intervue team where I was asked questions on CI/CD, Docker, Rails, and SQL. While I was able to answer most of the questions, I struggled specifically with a question related to CI/CD in the context of refactoring. I’m trying to understand whether that gap was the primary reason for the decision, as I would like to improve in the right areas. Any specific feedback would be helpful. Overall, the interview experience felt a bit abrupt, and I would appreciate more detailed feedback for future improvement.

The interview was scheduled via a direct HR phone call. The interviewer changed the question abruptly mid-discussion and appeared disengaged, frequently typing in the background, resulting in a rushed and unstructured interview experience.